See, the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about. <g>
That was an excellent abstract. And the book comes out when?
And a further question: I believe we never will achieve artificial intelligence
because there is no way to wire a machine to the subconscious, or, as Jung put
it, the unconscious. We may differ slightly in that I believe the unconscious
is our connection to the ineffable, the Profound Mystery, etc.
Sent from my iPhone 6s Plus. This is a perfect mobile device. Any perceived
errors in spelling, grammar, or logic are figments of your imagination.
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6/16/2016 12:10 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> After a drink or two, I can argue that inanimate objects--things--also _can_
>> possess a soul.
>
> With my Animist headdress on, I must agree.
>
>> But it takes the whisky to get around the fact that one person's object with
>> soul is another person's piece of crap.
>
> That's because (Jungian hat donned.) what we generally tend to think is the
> soul in or of the object is, in fact, projection of interior parts of
> ourselves of which we are consciously unaware onto external things, people,
> whatever. Jung called these hidden parts of ourselves the Unconscious for the
> obvious reason that about all we can know about it consciously is that it is
> there, but not what's "in" it. Soul is just as good a word for it. *
>
> The object is just an object, with no intrinsic, objective qualities of good
> or bad, helpful or unhelpful. Those qualities only arise from our, external
> perspective. Poison Oak (or Ivy) just is, it's soul and physical being simple
> mirrors of each other. When many of us interact physically with it, our
> bodies react in unpleasant ways, and we tend to demonize it as Bad,
> particularly those of us filled with the monotheistic religious worldview
> and/or secular/scientism gestalts that rely on dualistic thinking and feeling.
>
> The naturalist healer will connect with the soul and discover in what ways
> the object's nature might be useful. Poison Oak/Ivy, for example, have
> healing uses for herbalists, holistic healers and so on.
>
> The Shaman also may contact the soul, as a part of understanding the
> relationship of an individual or tribe to the world they live in. The "other"
> world(s) that Shamans visit and the material, middle world, that our bodies
> and minds (largely) inhabit, mirror each other. Knowing the soul properties
> of the things that surround us in the middle world is important, sometimes
> crucial, to the Shaman's work in the other worlds.
>
> As you know, I can natter on about this stuff, from several perspectives,
> more or less ad infinitum.
>
> Moose the Mouth
>
> * Thus, Jungian Projection and Re-Collection, as Marie Louise Von Franz named
> the process, Inner Work, as Robert A. Johnson called it, Shamanic practices
> like the Soul Retrieval that Sandra Ingerman and other Shamanic practitioners
> describe and practice and other ways of finding and re-integrating "lost"
> parts of ourselves as a way of healing, are all essentially the same process
> underneath.
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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