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Category: psychology

talks

September 24, 2019 Robert

on creativity and the mythic return to origins University of Dallas, September 2019

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Reading Jung: Psychology as Art

April 2, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

I first read Jung in an introductory class taught by Robert Romanyshyn. His instruction for our reading was to take…

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“Shrink!” The constriction of creative imagination

March 17, 2019 Robert

Slang for therapist, shrink is an intriguing word; rather it is a fascinating image. One story goes that it arose…

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Posted in: creativity, psychology Filed under: becoming, identity, imagination, play, shadow, shrink, therapy, winnicott

Language embodies imagination

March 10, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

Language embodies imagination; its diastole and systole, its expansion and constriction. Our proclivity for constricting imagination by turning everything into…

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Music, language of the soul: melody and harmony

February 11, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

The arts, including music, are the soul’s languages. Music connects with us (and connects us) because it speaks the soul’s…

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Posted in: music, psychology Filed under: harmony, melody, narrative

creative by nature: the tree on a hill

January 24, 2019 Robert Leave a comment

There on a grassy hill stood a tree, old, vibrant, captivating in its beauty. People of all sorts traveled the…

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an example of being figured by the work

June 16, 2018 Robert

in the essay, “the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,” i write of how we (in this case,…

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the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity

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JSSS Conference presentation Robert Sandford, M.A., June, 2018 In this talk, the dream-ego in the dream, the waking-ego in creativity,…

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rhythm

May 13, 2018 Robert Leave a comment

Why does Music have such an effect on us? Where does it come from? In the beginning, there was rhythm.…

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Posted in: music, psychology Filed under: music, rhythm

what makes a space sacred

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The spaces we dwell in have a powerful effect on us. Moving from our parking lot toward the church we…

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Posted in: architecture, psychology, spirituality Filed under: sacred, space

love, freedom and creation

February 28, 2015 Robert 1 Comment

What if we are so much of creation that the gift of free will, given in love, had consequences for…

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Posted in: creativity, philosophy, psychology, theology

why heaven is up

August 21, 2014 Robert 1 Comment

Of course we’re not talking literally “up.” That would lead to all sorts of absurdities. We’re speaking metaphorically, which is…

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Posted in: psychology Filed under: metaphor, spatiality, verticality

transformative ideas

August 2, 2014 Robert Leave a comment

“Perhaps ideas are the single most precious miracle in human existence. For ideas determine our goals of action, our styles…

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Posted in: creativity, psychology Filed under: ideas, transformation

reimagining memory

July 2, 2014 Robert Leave a comment

While we may imagine memory as the collection and recall of facts, compared with technologies we create to help us…

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group mind V: connection to the audience

January 3, 2013 Robert Leave a comment

Related posts group mind I: like conversation group mind II: transcendence group mind III: the nature of music group mind…

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group mind IV: chemistry

December 31, 2012 Robert Leave a comment

Related posts group mind I: like conversation group mind II: transcendence group mind III: the nature of music group mind…

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