Tuesday, July 02, 2002

History of Guided Imagery

List all the things you just don't want to think about.
How is your life impacting others?
So... what is the life you intended?
--Journaling prompts (and more)
Paperjournal: real-world journal group
5 Year Journal
(No need to actually buy it... just use the ideas you like in your own journal)
Only a few cities dare oppose the so-called "Patriot Act"
BlogComp: Blog Tool Feature Comparison Table
(thanks to Mike!)

Sunday, June 23, 2002

NYC bookstores off the beaten track
"Am I causing someone else to feel pain which I should actually be dealing with myself?" --What Evil Means to Us
The Spirit of Jung
From Psychology to Psychosophy
"The image... is inhabited in its depths by a god and has telos. The image's movement expresses the telos, a kind of manifestation of the god within, and it is followed, not interpreted, with varying skill in the analytical process... the image, although it is a snapshot of a personally inflected archetypal process, is not static. '…the image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy….a vortex, from which and through which and into which, ideas are constantly rushing...'" "As electric media proliferate, whole societies at a time become discarnate, detached from mere bodily or physical 'reality' and relieved of any allegiance to or a sense of responsibility for it...The alteration of human identity by new service environments of information has left whole populations without personal or community values..." --Cyberwork: The Archetypal Imagination in New Realms of Ensoulment
"Active Imagination places us at the threshold between our everyday sort of awareness and the dream world. If we can bring a degree of alertness and openness to the threshold, the dream world will reach out to meet us."

Thursday, June 13, 2002

"Persons who have gone through the purging process of the descent through the circles of hell seem to emerge from the experience with remarkably similar viewpoints... One interesting quality of the enlightened is that they seem to have acausal or nonrational thought patterns... The enlightened mind simply has at its disposal increased areas of awareness.. In the language of psychology we can say that the enlightened person understands the influence of unconscious mental contents on conscious behavior..." --Zen and the Art of Imitating the Ineffable
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you..." --Carl Jung
"At a certain time in the life of many individuals, generally toward the middle years but at times as early as the middle twenties, a sense of discouragement prevails. The individual feels he will never be able to create. He must give up. Often, on closer examination, we recognize that persons of this type have been handicapped by a grandiose image of themselves... Early in life they conceived of a grandiose self that would live up to great ambitions and expectations... with the passage of time the person realizes that he will not accomplish these great deeds: he then considers himself a failure, and lives the rest of his days in a state of renunciation..." --From Procrustes to Proteus: Disempowerment, Actualization, and Empowerment