Posted in Carl Jung, analytic psychology, folk psychology, politics, web media on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
These are all scattered excerpts from Jung’s book “The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual In Modern Soceity.” Jung rarely talked about politics in his work. In fact I’m quite sure this was the only time he did, only in reference to his individualism (so for those of you looking for a book centered […]
Posted in adult learning, critical thinking, experiential learning, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on May 25th, 2007 No Comments »
For the past two years I have been researching with a colleague the following mouthful: informal, self-managed problem solving in dyadic interpersonal contexts. Okay? The research is informal and is driven by loosely coupled folk psychological theorizing about potentially productive heuristics. This means the theorizing is pragmatic but not formally disciplined. Although it could elaborate […]
Posted in charlatanry, folk psychology, philosophy, religion on Nov 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion. Harrumph.
Dawkins is aggravated at magical precepts and objects of belief. Moreover, as many are, he finds the religious game of king of the hill destructive. But, Dawkins is somehow prevented by the mote in his eye from realizing that faith, belief, are completely normal features of the consciousness the most […]
Posted in critical thinking, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Jeezum… from the blog about stuff Integral (aka Ken Wilber et al) Mystery of Existence,
Dangers of models
In writing the aqal review of local organizations, and also talking with a friend yesterday who’s very much into integral things, I am reminded of the dangers of Spiral Dynamics, and of any map, framework or model.
As with any […]
Posted in experiential learning, folk psychology, psychology on Oct 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
By law I cannot practice psychotherapy. So, I co-counsel, mentor, facilitate, ‘therapize’. This sends me into the vast, errr, not-really-therapy territories, many consultants, coaches, healers, and, spiritual mendicants/gurus/charlatans, are in. I’m a dialogic facilitator on a good day, and, on those same days I like to think my various prejudices are effectively deployed.
Of […]
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