SELF GROWTH - Key Persons
Swiss psychiatrist, one of the founding fathers of modern depth psychology. Jung's most famous concept, the collective unconscious, have had a deep influence not only on psychology but also on philosophy and the arts. Jung's break with Sigmund Freud is one of the famous stories in the early history of the psychoanalytic thought. More than Freud, Jung has inspired the New Age movement with his interest in occultism, Eastern religions, the I Ching, and mythology.
"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense - he is "collective man," a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." (from 'Psychology and Literature', 1930)
Carl Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland. His father, Johannes Paul Achilles Jung (1842-1896), was a priest - a profession that had traditions in the family. According to family legends, Jung's grandfather was Goethe's illegal son, although there was no real evidence to support the story. However, if Shakespeare's Hamlet was the most important play for Freud, Goethe's Faust, memorized already at school, influnced as deeply Jung. Freud, who saw Jung as his successor, also paid attention to Jung's family background and referred, perhaps ironically, Goethe as Jung's ancestor.
Jung graduated with a medical degree in 1900 from the University of Basel and began his professional career at the University of Zürich. He worked at the Burghöltzi, the Zürich insane asylym and psychiatric clinic until 1909. His first published paper, On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena, appeared in 1902 and formed the basis for his doctoral thesis. Its material was partly based on his observations - and experiments - with his cousin Helly, whom he described in the work as "a young girl somnambulist."
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Donald G. Carty is the President/CEO of the our World Family of Companies, the Director of Jodon Publishing Group, , founder of our World - "where dreams are made", Self Growth "self-organization and emergence" and Citizens' Forum - The People Speak. As a result of his Personal and Business success along with many years of Community service, Donald Carty has been featured on CBC 24 Hours News broadcast, host of Harmony at Home, a cable show on Multiculturalism, and as a Citizens' Forum Moderator on Peter Warrens National CBC Radio Morning show .
Donald is a Personal Training and Development Consultant and is the imaginative force behind the organization. He believes that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood.
This idea of a mystical or spritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Donald than the world of material things.
Enhancing his 25-year sales and management consulting career, he has also been involved as a volunteer with various cultural and community groups. It has always been his belief - or should we say, vision - that Organizations, like Families, are better understood as the sum of their interactions rather than the sum of their parts. The same can be said of Society.
Guided by this vision, Donald's work involving the assimilation of diverse interests has been the most fulfilling part of his professional and personal life.
Having nonpartisan views on issues allows Donald an open mind and patience to remain focused and unbiased towards the concerns and issues of various peoples. By design, his life's work has involved many types of people-oriented activities. Some have been based on modern technical systems as well as an empathetic, sixth sense approach.
Donald has been of service to people of all walks of life in business and social settings across this great continent of ours, ever-attuned to their individual needs. As a committee chair, management consultant or sales representative, his successes have always come from his strength of conviction and commitment to vision.
Donald Carty resides in Florida, has three children and four grandchildren.
JoAnne Centore is the Executive Vice President of The our World Family of Companies, and Managing Editor of The Dream Catcher, a personal/professional/organizational growth Ezine dedicated to helping readers reach a higher level of human potential. She directs the marketing and administrative responsibilities for the company.
JoAnne Centore is the creative cornerstone of the company, with a natural talent for managing and keeping things running smoothly. She is not only tireless in her attention to the details of running a company, but she happily gives her time and energy to make sure that the needs of others are met and that our company's functions are a success. Also, by utilizing her interpersonal and analytical skills, she has been effective in establishing and maintaining beneficial relationships among respected business and professional leaders.
JoAnne received a Degree in Graphic Design from Kieser College in Florida, and is creative , talented artist with a feel for beauty and design. Traditions are sacred to Joanne and she shows a delightful fascination with news of our friends and associates. And we are eternally grateful to her for the tireless service she gives to others. ,
Ms. JoAnne Centore resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. JoAnne has four children and four grandchildren.
Joseph Campbell was born in New York City. He was a reader of American Indian folklore as a child and revived his interest in the subject while working on a master's degree. Before attending Columbia University, he traveled in Europe. In 1927 Campbell received his M.A. in English and comparative literature. He then returned to Europe for postgraduate study in Arthurian romances at the Universities of Paris and Munich. During his stay he discovered that many themes in Arthurian legend resembled the basic motifs in American Indian folklore. The idea inspired Campbell in his unending study of such authors Thomas Mann and James Joyce. He was also caught up in the theories of Jung.
Back in the United States Campbell retired for five years to Woodstock, New York, and Carmel, California, where he put together his guiding thesis that perceived myths as "the pictorial vocabulary of communication from the source zones of our energies to the rational consciousness." In 1934 Campbell began teaching at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where he remained for thirty-eight years. In 1938 he married Jean Erdman, who founded a dance company and school of her own. From 1956 to 1973 Campbell was a visiting lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute. In 1985 he received the National Arts Club medal for honor for literature and was elected in 1987 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The popular PBS television program The Power of Myth was made in 1985 and 1986 mostly at the ranch of Campbell's friend, the film director George Lucas. Campbell's concept of the hero's journey was one of the sources for Star Wars film trilogy by Lucas. Campbell died at age of eighty-three on October 31, 1987, at his home in Honolulu, Hawaii, after a brief illness.
"Freud has suggested that all moments of anxiety reproduce the painful feelings of the first separation from the mother - the tightening of the breath, congestion of the blood, etc., of the crisis of the birth. Conversely, all moments of separation and new birth produce anxiety. Whether it be the king's child about to be taken from the felicity of her established dual-unity with Danny King, or God's daughter Eve, now ripe to depart from the idyl of the Garden, or again, the supremely concentrated Future Buddha breaking past the last horizons of the created world, the same archetypal images are activated, symbolizing danger, reassurance, trial, passage, and the strange holiness of the mysteries of birth" (from The Hero with a Thousand Faces)
Campbell began his writing career as a literary critic, co-authoring with Henry M. Robinson A SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE (1944), a study of James Joyce's major novel. He then turned his attention to explicating the great myths of the world's religions in terms of Jungian concept of the collective unconscious. He also popularized the key discoveries and the psychology of Jung. Campbell argued that world's mythologies, ritual practices, folk traditions, and major religions share certain symbolic themes, motifs, and patterns of behavior. His theories influenced a wide range of writers around the world, among them the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski in his Tiarnia series.
In 1948 appeared The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is often cited as Campbell's best book. It has sold nearly one million copies in various editions. Campbell juxtaposed myths from Native Americans, ancient Greeks, Hindus, Buddhists, Mayans, Norse and Arthurian legends, and the Bible to elucidate the hero's path of adventure through rites of passage to final transfiguration. During the 1950s Campbell worked on his four-volume series, The Masks of God. In MYTHS TO LIVE BY (1972) he suggested that new myths would replace old ones, perhaps drawing symbols from modern technology. "I like to think of the year 1492 as marking the end - or at least the beginning of the end - of the authority of the old mythological systems by which the lives of men had been supported and inspired from time out of mind. Shortly after Columbus's epochal voyage, Magellan circumnavigated the globe. Shortly before, Vasco da Gama had sailed around Africa to India. The earth was beginning to be systematically explored, and the old, symbolic, mythological geographies discredited." As an editor Campbell compiled six volumes of ERANOS YEARBOOKS (1954-69), based on "shared feast" lectures held at Ascona in southern Switzwerland and originally published in the Eranos-Jahrbücher. He also assisted Swami Nikhilananda in producing a translation of THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA (1942), edited THE PORTABLE ARABIAN NIGHTS (1952), and provided folkloric commentaries for THE COMPLETE GRIMM FAIRY TALES (1944). Campbell often used skillfully down-to-earth examples when he clarified the influence of myths on modern day thinking. In the essay 'The Impact of Science on Myth' (1961) from Myths to Live By he depicts a discussion he heard at a luncg counter. A young boy tells his mother, that his friend Jimmy wrote a paper on the evolution of man, but the teacher said he was wrong: Adam and Eve were our first parents. And the boy's mother confirms this fundamentalist claim. "What a mother for a twentieth-century child!" Campbell wrote.