In this workshop we will look at the current state of the U.S. political economy through the lens of the Kemetic-Egyptian Myth of Maat, an archetype of justice, judgment and orderly judicial proceedings. The myth offers the example of spirit and matter integrated in law, psyche and the political economy. We will use this myth and its teachings to interrogate, the historiography of U.S. civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence, and the intent of voting rights legislative initiatives in the “For the Peoples’ Act” and the “John Lewis Act.” We then define Jung’s concepts of active imagination to conjure images and construct ideas of the good society. We will imagine together core elements of the good society, multicultural democracy; and the psychological resistances that undermine the architecture of the vision and its construction in the U.S. political economy. Where are changes and reforms needed in the individual and collective psyche and cultural institutions?
