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Combining Kuhn and Jung: outlining a 'step ladder model' (SLM) for scientific discovery and paradigm shift research
Sam Keenan
This paper provides the outline of a 'step ladder model' (SLM) comprising 12 steps of scientific discovery making. It incorporates both a 'leap-off point' from Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and ideas from Jungian psychology to reveal patterns in the way in which scientific discoveries are made, across 40 examples from the history of science. The current consensus is that these discoveries are accidental. This paper aims to provide a model for deliberately making dream-based scientific discoveries. The key to this model is intrapsychic patterns in how discoveries of this kind can be made. As these patterns become gradually clearer, greater understanding of the dream-based scientific discovery-making process can develop. Gradually as a collective endeavour, as the SLM develops, the dream-based scientific discovery process can by degrees become less accidental, and progressively more deliberate.
Remedying Reichenbach: Outlining a truly descriptive epistemology for Scientific Discovery making for advanced research and medical diagnosis.
Sam Keenan
Step 2 of the Step Ladder Model: The Call - Vocation
This paper elaborates Step 2 ‘The Call’ of the Step Ladder Model for advanced scientific discovery making, which has been outlined elsewhere. Two versions of Step 2 - the Call – are provided: From Jung, the meaning of one’s life as one research axis; and the Inner Genius. Ideally, the inner Self-to-ego calling (Step 2 of the SLM) and the professional training (Step 3 of the SLM) are voluntarily and consciously aligned by the individual researcher. So, ideally, the result is a choice to live from day to day over time so that calling and career may coincide in time and space. So, in ideal terms again, this may fill a lacuna in current Jungian psychology; namely how Jungian psychology may apply in the first half of life. A less ideal historical case – Buckminster Fuller’s - is noted, where Steps 2 and 3 were reversed. To counter the ideal assumptions, some risks and cases of failure are considered. Finally, an avenue for future research is indicated: A possible synthesis between Jung’s psychology and Max Weber’s sociology to be commenced by comparing their mutually orthogonally oriented conceptions of ‘calling’.
From dream scepticism to dream learning: A Jungian response to a question from Citron's Dreams, Nightmares, and a Defense against Arguments from Evil
Sam Keenan
This paper provides one Jungian response to a question from a symposium on Citron's Dreams, Nightmares, and a Defense against Arguments from Evil: Is dream-suffering as significant as waking suffering? The response provided is affirmative. Dream-based insight and its accompanying suffering at least, if not more significant than waking suffering. This, on instrumental grounds, is because the dream based suffering – when understood – can produce (even empirical) learning that the conscious mind alone cannot. This reprises Henri Poincaré's point, but places it in an expanded Jungian context, which provides a religious and moral dimension or seriousness that Poincaré's approach omits.
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Sam Keenan
This paper provides one Jungian response to a question from a symposium on Citron’s Dreams, Nightmares, and a Defense against Arguments from Evil: Is dream-suffering as significant as waking suffering? The response provided is affirmative. Dream-based insight and its accompanying suffering at least, if not more significant than waking suffering. This, on instrumental grounds, is because the dream based suffering – when understood – can produce (even empirical) learning that the conscious mind alone cannot. This reprises Henri Poincaré’s point, but places it in an expanded Jungian context, which provides a religious and moral dimension or seriousness that Poincaré’s approach omits.
Where Mysticism and Empiricism have met
Sam Keenan
The philosophers' stone: Alchemical imagination and the soul's logical life
2014 •
Stanton Marlan
The Philosophers\u27 Stone: Alchemical Imagination and the Soul\u27s Logical Life
2014 •
Stanton Marlan
Alchemy has been viewed within the context of the history of natural science as a precursor to and a primitive form of chemistry. The enigmatic goal of the alchemical process, the Philosophers\u27 Stone, is the focus of this dissertation. A natural scientific approach has shed little light on the mythical, esoteric and symbolic attributes of the Stone, which are intrinsic parts of the alchemical imagination. From the larger perspective of the history of the human spirit, these neglected aspects of the Philosophers\u27 Stone can be seen as vital dimensions of an ancient religious and spiritual philosophy, the goal of which is not simply the transformation of lead into gold, but the transformation of earthly man into an illuminated philosopher. The natural scientific and spiritual/symbolic perspectives are aspects of the Stone\u27s history, which constitute a divide in the alchemical imagination regarding how the Stone is understood. Both dimensions are important in the historiography...
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Wooing The Spirit Bride: Men and Anima in Neo-shamanism, Alchemy, and Esoterica
2022 •
Sean Patrick McPeak
This hermeneutic study uncovers effective means of engagement between contemporary, straight, cisgender men and the anima, or inner feminine archetype. This focused demographic has been chosen due to its disproportionate privilege in modern society. The proposed need for this demographic to engage their archetypal feminine to address this disproportionate privilege within modern patriarchy is needed now more than ever. This dissertation produces a historically supported phenomenological description of themes and patterns within shamanic, alchemical, and esoteric traditions, which have aided men in developing a reciprocal, mutually enriching relationship with the anima. Each tradition supports the engagement between men and anima within various cultures and time periods. A hermeneutic approach is used to explore the concept of “mystical marriage” from its origin in ancient shamanic ritual to modern depth psychology. I define my approach to engaging the anima as “wooing,” i.e., actively creating a state of receptivity in order to form a sacred union with her. This research finds the underlying psychological mechanics of how to facilitate this interaction through ritual, poetry, and active imagination. These mechanics can be practiced today and applied to contemporary or future methods. Keywords: anima, depth psychology, shamanism, alchemy, esoterica, spirit bride
The Citadel of Enchanting Images
THE FORTRESS OF ENCHANTING IMAGES: THE LAST UNFINISHED STORY OF RUMI
2018 •
Nasrin Beyraghdar
The intention of this study is to examine the last tale of Sufi master Jalal-e-din Rumi in his masterpiece Masnavi or Mathnavi (trans. 2003). Sufism is one of the world's established mystical traditions and the Sufi Order is a school that offers training for initiates. Storytelling is an integral and important tradition within Sufism, fomenting the soul’s growth through knowledge. The medium of storytelling speaks directly to the heart and soul of the listener, penetrating where mere informational and intellectual lectures do not.
