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The Center for Story and Symbol, Joseph Campbell and Archetypal Psychology

The Center for Story and Symbol, Joseph Campbell and Archetypal Psychology
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Mitologia greco-romana: indice di miti e leggende See also CONSTELLATIONS The god Ocean , holding a cornucopia. Marble statue of the second century, Naples, National Archaeological Museum Values Explanations > Values About values | Historical values | Research on values | So what? Values is a confusing word that often gets confused with 'value' as in the value you get from buying a cheap, but well-built house. Values are, in fact powerful drivers of how we think and behave. About values Value categories: different spheres into which we place values. Historical values American Values: A list of traditional US cultural values. Research on values Career Anchors: identified by Edgar Schein as shapers of what we do. Values are also often a significant element of culture, where they form a part of the shared ruleset of a group. When I break my values, I will feel shame and guilt. Know the the values to which the other person will subscribe (these are often common sense) as well as the actual values they enact in practice (watch them for this). Beware of the values in practice which can be harmful to you (will they betray you?). See also Social Norms, Guilt, Repulsion, Pride, Shame

Gilgamesh, Epic of From New World Encyclopedia The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Babylonia and arguably the oldest known work of literature. The story includes a series of legends and poems integrated into a longer Akkadian epic about the hero-king Gilgamesh of Uruk (Erech, in the Bible), a ruler of the third millennium B.C.E. Several versions have survived, the most complete being preserved on eleven clay tablets in the library of the seventh-century B.C.E. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. The essential story tells of the spiritual maturation of the heroic Gilgamesh, the powerful but self-centered king who tyrannizes his people and even disregards the gods. The epic appears to have been widely known in ancient times and to have influenced important works of literature, from the book of Genesis to The Odyssey. Episodes in Gilgamesh foreshadow many other later stories in both Biblical and secular literature: Summary The following is a summary of each of the tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh: History Notes

Postmodernism and Truth Explanations > Critical Theory > Concepts > Postmodernism and Truth Pre-modernist truth | Modernist truth | Post-modernist truth | See also Postmodernism can be a confusing concept that gets dropped into intellectual conversation and presentations, typically to make a complexifying point that prevents easy conclusions being made. But what is postmodernism? Mostly, it is about truth. Or not. Pre-modernist truth In the days before modern science emerged, how did you know if something was true? The other way of knowing truth was to trust another person who declared something to be true. Archetypally, priests were critical truthsayers. Truth could also be asserted by one's superiors, from parents to craft masters to judges to the monarch. Pre-modernist philosophers, from Socrates onward (and probably before), sought truth through thought and reason. There is still plenty of pre-modernist truth around today, yet there are serious challenges to this order. Modernist truth Postmodernist truth

One story to entertain them all | TEDxVienna What does the Iliad have in common with World of Warcraft? Where lies the connection between Oliver Twist and Bruce Wayne? And how does Emerald City relate to the Death Star? We are surrounded by stories, and we make more and more of them daily. As with any idea, a story requires a medium to materialize, but it is by no means bound to spoken or written language. The appearance of stories is diverse, yet structurally many stories are amazingly similar. While not every stage or character has to occur in each instance, Campbell suggests that any story ever told is basically a variation of that one monomyth. However, one question remains: Why are we not yet bored by having that one story told over and over again? Speaking of quests, initiations, obstacles, thresholds to increasingly challenging levels and rewards, we shouldn’t neglect another popular means of storytelling. photo 1, 2, 3, 4

Is Google Making Us Stupid? "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise.

Monomyth Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the hero's journey, is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).[1] Campbell, an enthusiast of novelist James Joyce, borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.[2] Campbell held that numerous myths from disparate times and regions share fundamental structures and stages, which he summarized in The Hero with a Thousand Faces: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[3] A chart outlining the Hero's Journey. Summary[edit] In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The 17 Stages of the Monomyth[edit]

How to know it all The way to know it all is to change the definition of “all.” Schools do this, for example, by defining “all” to mean everything on a test. Then it’s possible for someone to know it all. Schools create the illusion that the world is finite. You may not know everything, but someone does. The desire to know it all is pernicious. When I was very young, I thought that if I read every volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, I’d know everything. If you want to learn English by first learning all the vocabulary, you’ll never speak English. Computer languages are orders of magnitude simpler than human languages, but they’re still too complex to learn exhaustively. A common problem in math is how to select a finite sample from an infinite space. Even when things are finite, it’s often very practical to think of them as being infinite. Related post: Evaluate people at their best or at their worst?

Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts Apollo and the Greek Muses Updated July 2010 COMPREHENSIVE SITES ON MYTHOLOGY ***** The Encyclopedia Mythica - SEARCH - Areas - Image Gallery - Genealogy tables - Mythic Heroes Probert Encyclopaedia - Mythology Gods, Heroes, and MythDictionary of Mythology What is Myth? MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGYThe Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology Sumerian Gods and Goddesses Sumerian Myths SUMERIAN RELIGION Mythology's Mythinglinks: the Tigris-Euphrates Region of the Ancient Near East Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters of Mesopotamia The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ More info on Ancient Mesopotamia can be found on my Ancient River Valley Civilizations page. GREEK MYTHOLOGYOrigins of Greek MythologyGreek Mythology - MythWeb Greek-Gods.info (plus a fun QUIZ)Ancient Greek Religion Family Tree of Greek Mythology Greek Names vs. VARIOUS FAIRIES, ELVES, UNICORNS, MERMAIDS, & OTHER MYTHICAL TOPICS HERE BE DRAGONS!

Convert PDF to Word (DOC) Online — 100% Free! La Mètis et l’hybris (ou hubris ou ubris) La mètis désigne en grec, non pas l’intelligence, mais une forme particulière d’intelligence et de pensée, fondée sur la ruse, l’astuce, le stratagème, mais aussi la dissimulation, la tromperie voire même le mensonge. La mètis, rappelle Jean-Pierre Vernant, s’épanouit dans la pensée grecque archaïque qui ne fait pas de distinction entre l’être et le paraître, entre le monde des Idées et le monde sensible. Elle s’applique donc à des réalités mouvantes, instables et ambiguës, qui ne se prêtent ni au raisonnement rigoureux, ni à la mesure précise, ni à la mise en système. Elle renvoie aussi bien au savoir-faire de l’artisan, qu’à l’adresse du navigateur évitant les écueils, ou à l’habileté du sophiste. Mètis, c’est aussi le nom d’une déesse, première épouse de Zeus et future mère d’Athéna, tel que le raconte Hésiode, dans sa Théogonie. L’ hybris désigne chez les Grecs, la démesure, l’orgueil, traits que les dieux condamnent chez les humains.

Experts rethink good study habits Ask someone for tips on proper study skills, and you’re likely going to get an answer that ranges from “study in a quiet, sealed room” to “drink a sip of water each time you need to remember a fact.” But from folksy suggestions to ideas based in actual science, study skills are just about how well you train your brain to absorb information. The New York Times reports that scientists have determined a few simple techniques that can enable a student to absorb more information. Many of these new findings contradict commonly-accepted study habits. Retaining information is all in how the brain operates. Nate Kornell is a psychologist atWilliams Collegewho has studied how the brain absorbs information. Finally, if a person crams for a test, he or she is much more likely to completely forget the information over the long term. For further reading: Forget what you know about good study habits

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