This is a literature review chapter for the book A Greater Reality by CCRI. The book is a follow-up to the Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s FREE survey of 3,000+ ET/UFO or NHI/UAP experiencers. The researchers interpret the survey results as indicating that we live in a consciousness-primary universe and that the ET/NHI contact experiences is one [Read more…]
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A Jungian Foundation for Quantitative Analysis of Dreams and Other Psychical Phenomenon
If Jung had a dream database composed of dream journals from across cultures and time,how would he use it? What would he look for and what would he find meaningful? Could hefind expressions of archetypes, individuation, or the collective unconscious? This papersummarizes the academic method for quantitative analysis of dream content, then speculates onpossible paths [Read more…]
Embodying Dreams: An Exploration of Native American and Western Approaches
This paper is a cross cultural research paper I wrote at CIIS. I’m always a little cautious or skeptical about cross cultural comparison because interpretation of communication is often cultural. In this paper, I used academic or literary sources to explore Native American views on dreaming and compare them with Western approaches to dreaming. My [Read more…]
Inquiry into Testimony of Dream Healing from the Asclepion at Epidaurus
This paper explores the testimony of dream healing from the ancient Greek healing temple dedicated to Asclepius, the god of dreams and medicine. I wrote this paper as an academic writing sample for my MA in East-West Psychology because I focused on the quantitative analysis of dreams. This paper introduces the cultural practice of dream [Read more…]
The weirdest people in the world?
This paper raises concerns regarding assumptions made in social scientist about the validity of universal claims made supported by samples limited to Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. The authors observe that many claims from social sciences like psychology are often supported by small studies performed on undergraduates or convenient populations. They present [Read more…]
Geometry of the Mandala
This article examines the mandala and its geometry as a psychic phenomenon through a Jungian lens. It presented a review of mandala and geometry from a psychological perspective beginning with the golden section and Euclidean geometry. The article related active imagination, geometry, and metaphysics through the mandala. The author offered his own inner experience in [Read more…]
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