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James-Nestor

April 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Living Between Worlds with James Hollis

March 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

James Hollis is an American Jungian psychologist. He is a public speaker and the author of 16 books. He runs a private practice as a Jungian Psychoanalyst and is the Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center.

Eric and James have an interesting conversation about his newest book, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, his work with depth psychology, and what it means as we go through different passages in life.

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In This Interview, James Hollis and I Discuss Living Between Worlds and…

His book, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
Depth Psychology is trying to engage and work with the unconscious
Looking at the patterns in your life and working backward to see what produces behavior
How dreams represent self-regulatory dimensions of the psyche
As we have conversations with the external world, we must have one with our internal world
Self is the guiding energy that tries to heal your wounds
Self is the natural motive towards wholeness and development
A passage is when something has died and you’re in between
The first half of life is asking what the world is asking of me?
The second half of life is asking what the soul is asking of me?
Meaning is a by-product of being in the right relationship with one’s own soul
Asking yourself what your fears make you do or keep you from doing?
Investigating the archaic fear that is keeping us stuck
The psyche’s agenda of growth and development
The psyche’s agenda of self-healing
The purpose of dreams

James Hollis Links:

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March 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Neuroscience Behind Our Reality with James Kingsland

September 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

James Kingsland is a science and medical journalist with 25 years of experience working for publications such as New Scientist, Nature, and, most recently, The Guardian. On his own blog, Plastic Brain, he writes about neuroscience and Buddhist psychology.

In this episode, Eric and James Kingsland discuss his book, Am I Dreaming: The Science of Altered States from Psychedelics to Virtual Reality and Beyond.

In This Interview, James Kingsland and I Discuss the Neuroscience Behind Our Reality, and…

His book, Am I Dreaming: The Science of Altered States from Psychedelics to Virtual Reality and Beyond
What the best neuroscience tells us about how the brain works
That we don’t see the world directly, objectively as it is
Our experiential reality as a combination of what we expect to see and the feedback from what our senses are telling us is there
Prediction Error Coding
How the brain mainly pays attention when you surprise it
That the Buddha discovered that we see a conditioned view of the world
The types of things that go wrong in the brain
Viewing mental illness and addiction through the prediction functionality of the brain
How altered states can help when things go wrong in the brain
Expanded the flexibility of the brain
What happens in the brain during sleep and dreaming
His experience with hypnosis
Active Inference

James Kingsland Links:

Plasticbrainblog.com

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Healing Trauma with Dr. James Gordon

June 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Dr. James Gordon is an American author and psychiatrist known for mind-body medicine. Dr. Gordon is internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal population-wide psychological trauma. He is the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine as well as the director of Mind Body Studies and clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School at Georgetown University. In this episode, he and Eric discuss his book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma.