I update about once a month, apparently. So here's the May post. Ha. (I do update in my head pretty frequently, but those don't seem to get typed out. If only I could stream from my stream-of-consciousness.)

When I was a young collegiate lass, I was interested in graduate work and what to do after my B.A. career. The head of the department suggested I look into archetypal psychology and folks like Carl Jung. He directed me toward the Pacifica Institute near Santa Barbara. I still think it's interesting stuff; the idea of unconscious genetic memories and such. Maybe someday I'll apply.

I recently found out about Alejandro Jodorowsky's work with psychomagic and psychogenology. His thought focuses a lot on the idea of Tarot, which is not a direction I am interested in outside of scholarly knowledge.

There is something fascinating in working with someone's psychological genealogy, and enabling them to be freed from any bad things handed down from parents and grandparents. The idea of genetic predisposition has been growing in popularity, eg: negative ones like alcoholism. But rather than succumb to this "genetic fate" why couldn't we work together to break this predisposition, and not pass it on to our kids? Kind of like the second law of thermodynamics in reverse. That things do not move from entropy or disaster, but to restoration. I mean, this world is a pretty messed up place sometimes, but wouldn't that be an excellent reason to have lots of children? The opportunity to have a really awesome family and some incredible kids that will make the world a better place? Who can in turn help others to create really good genetic histories.

To stray somewhat from the direction of this post, I did notice this bit of text from one of Pacifica Institute's seminar pages: "In light of the imminent dangers overshadowing the contemporary world, academic pursuits can no longer remain isolated."

What would this mean? What are these dangers? Ecological? Political? What I read from this is academic pursuits need to be more generally available because otherwise knowledge will be lost, throwing people into a fresh Dark Ages. And we've all been taught that the less the general populace is educated, the easier they are to be lead by superstition and sensationalism. Ha! Maybe that's why I don't watch the news. Seriously, though: what do they mean? Anybody? It sounds a little creepy.