Multiple interacting and accelerating crises are dominating the contemporary world. They have the potential of extiguishing our species or of sending us back to the stone age in short measure. They are anthropogenic, the product of global business civilization, and inescapable This meeting will outline these megathreats. What can be said about this metaphysically? Jung was convinced of the high probability of a contempory apocalyse \u2013 which he argued was the dark side of god, whose inherent ambivqalence we have to resolve. What realistically are our chances? What light can psychology throw on this?<\/p>\n
Jan 28. Is the West really in decline?<\/span><\/strong> Feb 25. What does Jungian psychology offer our age?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n March 25. What are the main threats to humanity in the 21 century?<\/span><\/strong> May 27. When did the modern mind arrive? Exploration of ice age art and cave paintings.<\/span><\/strong> June 24. Climate catastrophe.<\/span> Is it all hot air?<\/span><\/strong> Sept 30. Culture wars, wokery, and political correctness.<\/span><\/strong> Oct 28. What is the problem with China?<\/span><\/strong> Nov 25. Is a global spiritual vision the crucial ingredient to save humanity?<\/span><\/strong> Multiple interacting and accelerating crises are dominating the contemporary world. They have the potential of extiguishing our species or of sending us back to the stone age in short measure. They are anthropogenic, the product of global business civilization, and inescapable This meeting will outline these megathreats. What can be said about this metaphysically? Jung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":99135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[542],"mec_speaker":[2507],"class_list":["post-99133","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Has the West lost its belief and hegemony? Can democracy be measured and is the world becoming <\/span>more or less democratic? Is the West imploding from within and what are the major signs of this? <\/span>Will the West rejuvenate? Are there any signs of this also? Can it meet the challenges of our time?<\/span><\/p>\n
Multiple interacting and accelerating crises are dominating the contemporary world. They have the potential of extinguishing our species or of sending us back to the stone age in short measure. They are anthropogenic, the product of global business civilization, and, by the look of things, inescapable. This meeting will outline these megathreats. What can be said about this metaphysically? Jung was convinced of the high probability of a contemporary apocalypse which he argued was the dark side of God whose inherent ambivalence we have to resolve. What realistically are our chances? What light can psychology throw on this?<\/p>\n
Although Homo sapiens evolved over 200,000 years ago in Africa. It was not until around 60,000 <\/span>years ago that we have evidence in utensils and weapons that indicate a behaviourally modern <\/span>human. It is between 40-16,000 years ago that we can observe in Europe the astounding cave art <\/span>that clearly demonstrated the arrival of the modern mind.<\/span> What is so distinctively and lastingly <\/span>human in this art?<\/span><\/p>\n
The climate crisis is upon us. We talk. It\u2019s totally clear that it\u2019s real and immensely urgent. We <\/span>hardly understand how it\u2019s going to evolve:<\/span> 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels? 3 <\/span>degrees centigrade? Why should it stop there? Are we really going to trash this planet? What is to <\/span>stop it happening?<\/span> What might be the consequences of this? Is it more than just carbon dioxide <\/span>poisoning? Is it a general environmental and life destruction?And is this an example of the evil in <\/span>humanity? Or is it just an unfortunate mistake and remiss behaviour. Is there something deadly, <\/span>even Satanic in the human psyche that is capable of world-destruction?<\/span><\/p>\n
Is the wokery and political correctness of the West a genuine political development or a symptom of <\/span>something? If so, what?<\/span> Does archetypal and transpersonal psychology have anything to say on <\/span>these issues? Does it have a critique of the culture wars for example?<\/span><\/p>\n
China has achieved more economically and in a shorter period of time than anyone thought <\/span>possible. Has it reached a limit in its phenomenal economic expansion? Is it an Orwellian state? <\/span>And could this be the future of humanity if China achieves global hegemony?<\/span><\/p>\n
When the hurlyburly\u2019s done, when the battle\u2019s lost or won, at the setting of the sun what is <\/span>fundamentally required of humanity to save itself and the earth? Is it a spiritual vision that is <\/span>needed? And how could this come about in an epoch of decline of spiritual belief? Will it only be in <\/span>the intensity of the unfolding crises that this might emerge?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"