| The Imaginal Nature of Globalization and Its Discontents
Throughout its history there have been those who have questioned the course of Western culture and even the project of civilization itself. We are in a unique position today to see the validity of that counter-cultural critiqu
that our civilization as constructed is detrimental to the health of biological life on the planet. Modern technological civilization is – in the opinion of the experts-- a pathological condition. Depth psychology would have to ag
An imaginal psychology, however, shouldn't be content to approach cultural pathology from the same medical angle as ecological science or environmental activism. An imaginal approach would have to ask: What psychi
gigantic machine bent on ravaging creation? And, most importantly, what response could be generated which would honor this intention in a manner other than the blindly destructive form it's having to assume? In a 20 mThomas Patrick Donovan
The Paradox of Killing the Planet in the Quest for Immortality
Could it be that the most inconvenient truth that humans continue to repress, deny and sublimate is the truth of our mortality? This presentation explores the seeming paradox between the relentless human quest for immo
that modern civilization as we know it is incompatible with sustainability. The starting point for meaningful dialogue over the fate of the planet must begin at the wellsprings of grief and melancholy over the very brief sojour
the destructive projections that are being unleashed upon the Earth be taken back.
Thomas Patrick Donovan is a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute who is currently writing his depth psychology dissertation, Troubled Guests: Facing Mortality and the Permission to be Human. He is also adju
men's circles, practiced sports massage with elite athletes, and worked with a number of traditional teachers.
these two questions.
Douglas Belknap has been practicing an imaginal approach to psychotherapy for over 25 years. He was one of the original Fellows of the Dallas Institute, a member of the Vision Board of the Salt Institute in Santa Fe, an
is currently at work on a book entitled, Imagining: The End Of The World As We Know It. |