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To Our Health! (“Historic Steps from Three to Four”)
“One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth…?”[1] Amid much fanfare earlier this month the United States Department of Agriculture, (USDA) unveiled a new food guide icon with the help of first lady Michelle Obama. Replacing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Arab Spring, C.G. Jung, depth psychology, Edward Edinger, Ego & Archetype, feeling, feminine, food pyramid, four, my dear Timaeus, MyPlate, perfection, Pope Pius XII, quaternity, Robert Johnson, symbol, The Assumption of Mary, The Da Vinci Code, the missing fourth, The move from three to four, three, USDA, wholeness
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James Hillman’s Shift to Soul-Making (“From Anima-Mess to Anima-Vessel”)
Psychologist James Hillman is best known as the founder of archetypal psychology – a branch of depth psychology that developed out of and has found its place alongside Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology. And if there is … Continue reading
In the Aftermath of Tucson II (“Moral Imaginations”)
At about the twenty minute mark of his memorial address in Tucson last month, President Obama included these impassioned words: “But what we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another. As we … Continue reading
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Tagged blood libel, ego, empathy, feeling, heart, imagination, moral imagination, morality, myth, persona, projection, shadow, symbol, Tucson
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In the Aftermath of Tucson (“Consciousness of Failure”)
In the wake of the shootings in Tucson, New York Times journalist David Brooks has an Op-Ed today entitled “Tree of Failure.” In this thoughtful piece of writing, Brooks discusses civility in a manner which some people no doubt will … Continue reading
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Tagged empathy, feeling, imagination, Lopez-Pedraza, Tucson, unconscious
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Myth & Justice VI.7 (“Restorative Justice II”)
In the previous blog the phrase “restorative justice” referred to Mythfire’s contention that a balance between masculine and feminine, thinking and feeling must be restored to our contemporary understanding of jurisprudence. This “Myth & Justice” series as a whole has admittedly … Continue reading
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Tagged Athena, depth psychology, empathy, feeling, goddess, heart, image, In God We Trust, Justice, myth, Sophia, symbol, tension of the opposites, Themis, thinking function, typology, wisdom
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Myth & Justice VI.6 (“Restorative Justice”)
The six installments in this “Myth & Justice VI” blog post are all connected to the idea of empathy as a rational concern for the plight or well-being of the other or others. These and the previous series installments have … Continue reading
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Tagged empathy, feeling, goddess, In God We Trust, Justice, soul, Themis, thinking function, truth, typology
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Myth & Justice VI.5 (“In God/dess We Trust – Part III”)
“From of old I was poured forth…” With a title like “In God/dess We Trust” some readers might be inclined to view this and the last two blog entries as “New Agey.” After all, they emphasize the return of a real … Continue reading
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Tagged empathy, feeling, goddess, In God We Trust, Justice, Polanski, Sophia, wisdom
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Myth & Justice VI.4 (“In God/dess We Trust – Part II”)
This entry briefly turns to one of literature’s greatest epics to shed further light on ideas expressed in the last blog. Upon his return home in The Odyssey, Odysseus lays waste to the suitors who have plagued his court in … Continue reading
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Tagged Athena, empathy, feeling, god, goddess, image, In God We Trust, Justice, symbol, The Odyssey, Zeus
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Myth & Justice VI.3 (“In God/dess We Trust?”)
The first entry to this series of blogs on Myth and Justice was entitled “Image is Everything” and concerned how our judicial process is very much a mythic process. The robe worn by the judge in the courtroom transforms him … Continue reading
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Tagged empathy, feeling, fundamentalism, goddess, In God We Trust, Justice, literalism, Polanski, Themis, typology
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Myth & Justice VI (“The Empathic Heart of Real Rationality”)
One of journalist David Brooks’ New York Times columns will serve as segue between the last Mythfire entry and this much belated follow-up: “As Dan Kahan of Yale Law School has pointed out, many disputes come about because two judges look at … Continue reading