In Philadelphia in 1731, an era most important to America’s cultural and pneumatic evolution, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) establishes the nation’s first library. Though fully operational, the library didn’t begin loaning out books until about 1774, the time period that Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was published. This letter, written in honor of this venerable ..

As part of the Antipodean Palette 2013, art exhibition, the Greek-Australian Cultural League will be organizing on an afternoon of bi-lingual poetic compositions in its plight to promote the written word. This program will feature select works from nine contemporary Greek-Australian poets: George Athanasiou, Monica Athanasiou, Salome Argyropoulos, Petr Malapanis, Dorothy Poulopoulos, Dean ..

2012 Awakening Slipping in and out of consciousness, His eyelids slowly open; Waking feels so surreal. His body is covered in bruises; His skin tone much darker than before. Noxious gases fill the room, Floating about a sea of confusion That keeps him adrift. Pyres dance around the room To the s ..

Initially Jung’s historiography of alchemy as a sequence of pseudochemical operations exemplifying an unconscious projection of individuation was very convivial, something which shouldn’t come as any great surprise given its notorious reputation as an intellectual cul-de-sac for contemporary historians of culture. Nevertheless in the aftermath of Jungian sensationism, rad ..

In the second part of Psychology and Alchemy we encounter intellectual fruits hoping to unearth correlations in support of an inherently self-regulating psyche, a ten month labour that involved the examination of fifty-nine dreams and visionary experiences belonging to the unconscious life of Nobel prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Paoli with whom Jung had collaborated to pioneer the  ..

Roughly twenty years after the circulation of Waite’s texts, the Sinologist Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) sent Jung a cryptic Chinese Taoist treatise entitled, The Secret of the Golden Flower. In a first perusal of the text Jung was struck by the ample use of mandala symbolism –the wheel of life or magic circle–which cropped up repeatedly in the psychedelic dream ..

As a major interpreter of the Western esoteric tradition–most notably alchemy, astrology, and the Gnostic sects of antiquity–Car Gustav Jung’s (1875-1961) opinions were informed by the cultural milieu of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contrary to the tapering, reductionist view of eclectic contemporary scholars who have contributed the ongoing mytholog ..

In the below video, Dr. Paul Kiritsis gives a summary of the “mind machine” experiments presented thus far as well as his more comprehensive study on precognitive dreams, the “Time Experiment.” The write-up for the latter will be completed and presented online by the end of the month. There is still room for a few more participants; if you missed out when the  ..

Title: A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination Author: Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi Copyright: 2000 Genre: Science Price: $18.00 ISBN: 0-465-01377-5 Rating: 4 out of 5 This book is a contemporary product of the mind-brain debate, a neuroscientific inv ..

The Greek-Australian Cultural League of Melbourne will inaugurate its annual celebration of songs sung against the silence with work by nine Greek-Australian poets. Join them for what will surely be a most memorable afternoon. The featured poets are: George Athanasiou Monica Athanasiou Salome Argyropoulos Dean Kallimniou Paul Kiritsis Petr Malapanis ..