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The Citizen’s Dilemma in Divisive Times

Thomas Singer
Independent study
Online
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Overview

Those of us who get our bearings from the “Spirit of the Depths” as well as the “Spirit of the Times”—who pay attention to politics as well as to our dreams—find this a difficult historical moment. How do we manage ourselves psychologically and politically amidst all the fury and vitriol in public discourse? How do we tend both psyche and polis? The American election looms against the backdrop of a fierce zeitgeist—economic and environmental crises, revolution, tyrants who murder their own citizens, occasional glimpses of a new day.

  1. To discuss ways we can manage ourselves psychologically in difficult political times, ways to stay connected to our values in this historical moment while also staying connected to our souls, ways to tend both psyche and polis.
  2. To analyze the state of our national psyche from the evidence of the current election season, for example, which cultural complexes are currently shaping political opinion?
  3. To describe and assess the deep contribution that Islamic mysticism has to offer to healing the polarizing conflicts of our contemporary political process. To see the cultural roots of what Jung rediscovered through active imagination as the collective unconscious. To consider Corbin and Jung’s respective approaches to the individual and the role of inner guidance in the mature development of the person.
  4. To demonstrate how the creative process, in this case poetry, can support us psychologically when our psyches are violently affected by the news of the day. To consider how creativity can bind together the spirit of the times and the spirit of the depths.
  5. To explain our times from the point of view of archetypal astrology. To identify the major dynamics at work in the cultural zeitgeist as they are affected by current planetary alignments.
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