About
“Diamond Body”, Iona Miller, 1983, Acrylic, 36x36
Iona Miller
Writer, Artist, Therapist
CV 2016 & Selected Publications
Iona_m@yahoo.com
GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22Iona+Miller%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38
Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics, symbolism, source mysticism, futuring, and emergent paradigm shift, creating a unique viewpoint. She is interested in extraordinary human potential and experience, and the EFFECTS of doctrines of religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Miller practiced as an innovative Clincal Hypnotherapist through the 1980s and 1990s. She now enjoys active retirement in the Rogue Valley in So. Oregon, USA.
She serves on the Advisory Boards of Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, DNA Decipher Journal, and Scientific God Journal, as well as the Board of Directors of Medigrace, Inc. & Calm Birth; a Miami-based Integral Medicine institute. She has worked with the Science-Art Centre (Australia) since 2003, and the Editorial Board of CRAFT, AU (Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions) from its inception.
She has shown her art work in individual and group shows in the following:
Miami, “Cyberotica”, Wynwood, Dec. 2003, Electronica & Wall Art Commentary.
Phoenix, The Ice House, “Technoshamanism”, 2003.
So. Oregon, “Art As Meta-Syn,” Wisdom Center, Aug. 2006.
New York, “Digital Long Island,””Psychogenesis”, Nov. 2007.
Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Paranoia Magazine, Alchemy Journal, Green Egg, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), ECODITION (Geneva), DNA Decipher Journal (DNADJ), Scientific God Journal (SGJ), Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Science-Art Research Centre Australia (SARCA), Dream Network, Chaosophy Journal, OAK-Publishing, PM&E, DNA Monthly, Antibothis, Pop Occulture, and more.
Ms. Miller coordinates Media & Wellness in the Operations Division of The Osborne Group (TOG), a risk management organization. Over the last 10 years she also managed the ad hoc projects of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) alumni from 3 decades, in intelligence, spyence, new physics, paranormal, creativity, consciousness studies, DNA research, superlearning, DIY mind control, biophysics, other frontier science and blue sky experimentation. This work continues in a variety of forms and outlets.
Ms. Miller has taught numerous community education classes (RCC) on Jungian Studies, Biofeedback, Hypnotherapy and related topics. She also oversees numerous curatorial, archival and genealogical projects. She has served in a professional capacity at Southern Oregon Hypnotherapy, Asklepia Foundation, Institute for Applied Consciousness Science, the Wisdom Center, Science-Art, USA, and Life Energies Research Institute.
Selected Publications of Iona Miller:
Miller, Iona & Richard, (1994), THE MODERN ALCHEMIST, Phanes Press.
Miller, Iona & Richard, (1990), THE MAGICAL & RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES, Destiny/ITI; New York.
Miller, Iona, (1993), CHAOSOPHY ’93, Asklepia Publications; Wilderville, OR. http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/chaosophy-93.html
Miller, Iona (1994), PSYCHOGENESIS ART, OAK Publications, Grants Pass, Or.
Miller, Iona (1983), PANTHEON, Archetypal Godforms in Daily Life, OAK, Grants Pass. http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/pantheon.html
Lyttle, Tom, (2000), PSYCHEDELICS REIMAGINED, “Chaos as the Universal Solvent,” Autonomedia; New York.
Guillard, Thierry (2016), Shamanism, Ancestors and Transgenerational Integration: Traditional Wisdom & Contemporary Practice, ECODITION, Switzerland.
Miller, Iona, (2013), Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), Natural Philosophy & the Vacuum Potential.
Gartel, Laurence, (2007), THE ART OF FETISH, “Epilogue : Cyberotica in Technoshamanism", Schiffer Publishing.
Pope, Robert, (2015), 21st Century Renaissance & Cancer Research, Science-Art AU,
[Iona Miller's work on Linguistic Color Perception and her 3-D DFA work, "KORE" appear on Pgs 79-80 of this 2015 book, and the artwork is in the SARCA Museum]
Sidorov, Lian, (2002), JOURNAL OF NONLOCAL & REMOTE MENTAL INTERACTION, “Quantum Bioholography,”
URL: www.emergentmind.org/MillerWebbI3a.htm
Miller, Iona, (2009), Alchemy Journal (Australia), "Anima Mundi: Soul-Filled World"
http://www.alchemyjournal.com/
Miller, Iona, (1994), Dream Network Journal, “Chaos Consciousness”, Pt 1 & 2, Prepared for the Proceedings of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology. Presented at Saybrook Institute, Summer, 1991.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Rebecca Buchanan, (2013), Harnessing Fire, “Hephaestus” https://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Fire-Devotional-Anthology-Hephaestus/dp/1482682850
Numerous articles for pop magazines Nexus (AU), Green Egg (USA), and Paranoia (USA). 2000-2016. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/publications.html
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORATION & RESEARCH
JCER - Vol. 5; Issue 3; April 2014
Sub-quantum Phenomena & Brain-Mind Problem
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
SCIENTIFIC GOD JOURNAL
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
DNA DECIPHER JOURNAL
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
Chaosophy 93
ABSTRACTS
Introduction
I. CHAOS AND POSTMODERN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Chaosophy
Chaos Consciousness in Psychotherapy
Chaos As the Universal Solvent
Chaos Theory and Psychological Complexes
The Creative Flow of Meaning
II. POLYPHASIC CONSCIOUSNESS
The Un-Named Dream and Parallel Universes
The Varieties of Virtual Experience
Dream Wave
The Unborn Dream
Have You Been to the Paradox?
III. THE HOLOGRAPHIC PARADIGM The Holographic Paradigm and CCP
Fractal Therapy
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
IV. CHAOS CULTURE
Relativity of Body and Soul
Virtual Therapy
The Guide Wave
V. INFORMATION THEORY
An Information Theory of the Universe and Neurodynamics
Ode to White Noise and Strange Loops
Image Processing
The Self-Aware Universe
CHAOSOPHY 2000
Asklepia Monograph Series
An Integrative View of Normal Adult Development
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/AdultCRP.html
Counseling Philosophy
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CounselCRP.html
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROMES
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CFSandCRP.html
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/MPDandCRP.html
DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/DepressionCRP.html
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/PTSDandCRP.html
BIPOLAR DISORDER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/BipolarCRP.html
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF CANCER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CancerandCRP.html
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/BorderlineCRP.html
EATING DISORDERS
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/EatingCRP.html
Psychoactive Substance Abuse
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/addictionCRP.html
Iona Miller
Writer, Artist, Therapist
CV 2016 & Selected Publications
Iona_m@yahoo.com
GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22Iona+Miller%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38
Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics, symbolism, source mysticism, futuring, and emergent paradigm shift, creating a unique viewpoint. She is interested in extraordinary human potential and experience, and the EFFECTS of doctrines of religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Miller practiced as an innovative Clincal Hypnotherapist through the 1980s and 1990s. She now enjoys active retirement in the Rogue Valley in So. Oregon, USA.
She serves on the Advisory Boards of Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, DNA Decipher Journal, and Scientific God Journal, as well as the Board of Directors of Medigrace, Inc. & Calm Birth; a Miami-based Integral Medicine institute. She has worked with the Science-Art Centre (Australia) since 2003, and the Editorial Board of CRAFT, AU (Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions) from its inception.
She has shown her art work in individual and group shows in the following:
Miami, “Cyberotica”, Wynwood, Dec. 2003, Electronica & Wall Art Commentary.
Phoenix, The Ice House, “Technoshamanism”, 2003.
So. Oregon, “Art As Meta-Syn,” Wisdom Center, Aug. 2006.
New York, “Digital Long Island,””Psychogenesis”, Nov. 2007.
Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Paranoia Magazine, Alchemy Journal, Green Egg, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), ECODITION (Geneva), DNA Decipher Journal (DNADJ), Scientific God Journal (SGJ), Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Science-Art Research Centre Australia (SARCA), Dream Network, Chaosophy Journal, OAK-Publishing, PM&E, DNA Monthly, Antibothis, Pop Occulture, and more.
Ms. Miller coordinates Media & Wellness in the Operations Division of The Osborne Group (TOG), a risk management organization. Over the last 10 years she also managed the ad hoc projects of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) alumni from 3 decades, in intelligence, spyence, new physics, paranormal, creativity, consciousness studies, DNA research, superlearning, DIY mind control, biophysics, other frontier science and blue sky experimentation. This work continues in a variety of forms and outlets.
Ms. Miller has taught numerous community education classes (RCC) on Jungian Studies, Biofeedback, Hypnotherapy and related topics. She also oversees numerous curatorial, archival and genealogical projects. She has served in a professional capacity at Southern Oregon Hypnotherapy, Asklepia Foundation, Institute for Applied Consciousness Science, the Wisdom Center, Science-Art, USA, and Life Energies Research Institute.
Selected Publications of Iona Miller:
Miller, Iona & Richard, (1994), THE MODERN ALCHEMIST, Phanes Press.
Miller, Iona & Richard, (1990), THE MAGICAL & RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES, Destiny/ITI; New York.
Miller, Iona, (1993), CHAOSOPHY ’93, Asklepia Publications; Wilderville, OR. http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/chaosophy-93.html
Miller, Iona (1994), PSYCHOGENESIS ART, OAK Publications, Grants Pass, Or.
Miller, Iona (1983), PANTHEON, Archetypal Godforms in Daily Life, OAK, Grants Pass. http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/pantheon.html
Lyttle, Tom, (2000), PSYCHEDELICS REIMAGINED, “Chaos as the Universal Solvent,” Autonomedia; New York.
Guillard, Thierry (2016), Shamanism, Ancestors and Transgenerational Integration: Traditional Wisdom & Contemporary Practice, ECODITION, Switzerland.
Miller, Iona, (2013), Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), Natural Philosophy & the Vacuum Potential.
Gartel, Laurence, (2007), THE ART OF FETISH, “Epilogue : Cyberotica in Technoshamanism", Schiffer Publishing.
Pope, Robert, (2015), 21st Century Renaissance & Cancer Research, Science-Art AU,
[Iona Miller's work on Linguistic Color Perception and her 3-D DFA work, "KORE" appear on Pgs 79-80 of this 2015 book, and the artwork is in the SARCA Museum]
Sidorov, Lian, (2002), JOURNAL OF NONLOCAL & REMOTE MENTAL INTERACTION, “Quantum Bioholography,”
URL: www.emergentmind.org/MillerWebbI3a.htm
Miller, Iona, (2009), Alchemy Journal (Australia), "Anima Mundi: Soul-Filled World"
http://www.alchemyjournal.com/
Miller, Iona, (1994), Dream Network Journal, “Chaos Consciousness”, Pt 1 & 2, Prepared for the Proceedings of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology. Presented at Saybrook Institute, Summer, 1991.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Rebecca Buchanan, (2013), Harnessing Fire, “Hephaestus” https://www.amazon.com/Harnessing-Fire-Devotional-Anthology-Hephaestus/dp/1482682850
Numerous articles for pop magazines Nexus (AU), Green Egg (USA), and Paranoia (USA). 2000-2016. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/publications.html
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORATION & RESEARCH
JCER - Vol. 5; Issue 3; April 2014
Sub-quantum Phenomena & Brain-Mind Problem
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
SCIENTIFIC GOD JOURNAL
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
DNA DECIPHER JOURNAL
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
Chaosophy 93
ABSTRACTS
Introduction
I. CHAOS AND POSTMODERN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Chaosophy
Chaos Consciousness in Psychotherapy
Chaos As the Universal Solvent
Chaos Theory and Psychological Complexes
The Creative Flow of Meaning
II. POLYPHASIC CONSCIOUSNESS
The Un-Named Dream and Parallel Universes
The Varieties of Virtual Experience
Dream Wave
The Unborn Dream
Have You Been to the Paradox?
III. THE HOLOGRAPHIC PARADIGM The Holographic Paradigm and CCP
Fractal Therapy
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
IV. CHAOS CULTURE
Relativity of Body and Soul
Virtual Therapy
The Guide Wave
V. INFORMATION THEORY
An Information Theory of the Universe and Neurodynamics
Ode to White Noise and Strange Loops
Image Processing
The Self-Aware Universe
CHAOSOPHY 2000
Asklepia Monograph Series
An Integrative View of Normal Adult Development
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/AdultCRP.html
Counseling Philosophy
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CounselCRP.html
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROMES
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CFSandCRP.html
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/MPDandCRP.html
DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/DepressionCRP.html
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/PTSDandCRP.html
BIPOLAR DISORDER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/BipolarCRP.html
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF CANCER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/CancerandCRP.html
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/BorderlineCRP.html
EATING DISORDERS
and the CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/EatingCRP.html
Psychoactive Substance Abuse
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
http://www.oocities.org/iona_m/Chaosophy2/addictionCRP.html
PREMIS
The tale of our genesis is our prima materia and our ultima materia, the unknown and self-knowledge. Our serpentine lines recursively bite their own tails. Paradoxically, our most personal past is a telos. This emergent aim or purpose pulls us forward into our deep past through a process in the present. Through such a path, through sacred movement of the soul we discover our Self, a dynamic emancipation of our life energies.
Our ancestors embody our innate unconscious metaphors and archetypal autonomy. In this sense, genealogy is a transcendent function, concerning the meaning of being in time -- psyche's innate purposiveness, aesthetics, and biocultural evolution. Looking at what lies ahead becomes part of our noncausal intepretation of the past, an emotional movement from darkness to light.
Genealogy is a transgenerational therapy. It is one way to work through transgenerational trauma, epigenetic trauma, and genetic issues. Both future and past operate in the present, symbolizing our as-yet-unlived life potential, including extension into eternity. Anticipation fuels the process, but everything cannot happen at once as we need time to digest it. We tend to overlook the infinitely vast scale of time at every moment. Genealogy helps us keep such insights in sight by softening the boundaries of birth and death in our narrative, exposing us experientially to the unbound sweep of deep time.
Our collective unconscious -- the primary phenomena -- informs the experience of being. Suffering merges with hopeful transcendence. Instead of dissociating, we experience it by creatively collapsing the future-past timeline, reflectively and reflexively interpreting that experience.
From some perspective there is a single psyche and a single subject that is not acquired through personal experience. All individual lives are simultaneously participating in the collective unconscious, as graphically depicted in our genealogical charts. Our story is a living symbol of personal and collective eternal mystery.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? -Jung
The tale of our genesis is our prima materia and our ultima materia, the unknown and self-knowledge. Our serpentine lines recursively bite their own tails. Paradoxically, our most personal past is a telos. This emergent aim or purpose pulls us forward into our deep past through a process in the present. Through such a path, through sacred movement of the soul we discover our Self, a dynamic emancipation of our life energies.
Our ancestors embody our innate unconscious metaphors and archetypal autonomy. In this sense, genealogy is a transcendent function, concerning the meaning of being in time -- psyche's innate purposiveness, aesthetics, and biocultural evolution. Looking at what lies ahead becomes part of our noncausal intepretation of the past, an emotional movement from darkness to light.
Genealogy is a transgenerational therapy. It is one way to work through transgenerational trauma, epigenetic trauma, and genetic issues. Both future and past operate in the present, symbolizing our as-yet-unlived life potential, including extension into eternity. Anticipation fuels the process, but everything cannot happen at once as we need time to digest it. We tend to overlook the infinitely vast scale of time at every moment. Genealogy helps us keep such insights in sight by softening the boundaries of birth and death in our narrative, exposing us experientially to the unbound sweep of deep time.
Our collective unconscious -- the primary phenomena -- informs the experience of being. Suffering merges with hopeful transcendence. Instead of dissociating, we experience it by creatively collapsing the future-past timeline, reflectively and reflexively interpreting that experience.
From some perspective there is a single psyche and a single subject that is not acquired through personal experience. All individual lives are simultaneously participating in the collective unconscious, as graphically depicted in our genealogical charts. Our story is a living symbol of personal and collective eternal mystery.
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? -Jung
TRANSGENERATIONAL GENEALOGY
The Argument:
After the deconstruction of the postmodern era, we need a reconstruction from the ground up -- a post-postmodern coagulatio to match that solutio. The metadata hidden in our genealogy can supply such information hidden in the cognitive and emotional unconscious as structure, embodied memory, lineage, and collective wisdom. Significant knowledge can enlighten our whole being. We can participate with it or remain unconscious of it. Jung noted that we are losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. Few forces are as strong in the psyche as genetics, sex and death.
History often reveals who underwent trauma:
wars; plague; torture; physical and mental abuse; abandonment; disowning; miscarriage; stillbirth; orphaning; kidnapping; birth trauma and defects; neglect; arson; homelessness; migration; toxic caregivers; suicide; murder; terror; spiritual abuse; divorce or never marrying; family secrets; attachment disorder; banishing; grief; dependence; incest; rape; affairs, separation; isolation; "mystery ancestors"; addictions; exhaustion; hypochondria; obsession; paranoia; personality disorder; schizophrenia; depression; emotional numbness; heresy; chronic anxiety; crime; social, financial, legal, displacement; zealotry; excommunication; poverty; famine; humiliation; internment; fanaticism; bigotry; cults; expulsion; eviction; slavery; betrayal; genocide; revenge; anger; execution; molestation; extortion; conquering;
natural disasters; catastrophes, cataclysm; cultural and ethical issues, etc.
The Conclusion:
Obviously, all genealogy is transgenerational. So long as our ancestry remains unconscious, we are marginalizing Nature and our nature. Yet, nature encompasses us. Jung notes that dreams are pure nature. He was concerned for our culture if we lost our roots. The same holds true at the personal level.
Genealogy can be approached as a clinical science but remains more of an art -- in many cases a shamanic art or self-initiation, as well as the art of relationship. We thread our way through a labyrinth of of light and dark characters. Our charts are catacombs of our forebearers. Our noble lineage becomes a royal road to ancient ancestors. But such a labyrinth of projections in the charts of a fantasist can produce self-delusion. In the chart of a realist it may remain dry facts. Fabulists embellish, while pragmatists may be stale. A middle way might be both enlivened and informed.
We Re-Collect
While some people may deeply pursue formal therapy, complex genogram relationships, or workshops, the vast majority will not. Those genealogical explorers will experience a spectrum of spontaneous effects, developing their own theories, interpretations, and directions from their ancestral encounters and revelations. It may be, as Jung suggests, that through dreams the ancestors compensate our ego attitudes. Even then, we make subjective and objective observations
and interpretations. In the blink of an eye, we can change our feelings about culture and human nature.
How little must the root-ancestors of each of our hoary lines have imagined in their own day for their millions of descendants? Even our "dead end" ancestors had antecedents; we just cannot know them, at least not through history. But seeds of knowledge in the head blossom in the fertile soil of the heart. We are formed directly from within.
Our Genesis
Genealogy used to be largely a quest for the father's direct line. But with today's algorithms we can find numerous distaff lines back through the ancestral field into the Heart of the Feminine and our mitochondrial inheritance, shared genetically by all genders.
Often these matriarchal lines reach further back in time than the paternal line. This is the realm of the mothers and their families brought to the tree -- our gateway into the unconscious. We descend from it, and like Faust, into initiation in this womb of potentiality from which the world is continuously born as the creative flow of the unconscious.
The ancients often incorporated images of death in their funeral rites, on mummy cases, the walls of tombs, and death masks. Some might find death photos macabre and yet they are simply a final remembrance of the beloved, which can help us personify that relative.
Imagistically, the dead continue their very long journey in the afterlife. The unconscious believes in the afterlife. Their events become our meaningful experiences -- their actions our ideas and reflections, insights alive with creativity and fantasy. Our persistent search for Who? leads us down and back. Each one strikes a different part of us.
Psychological effects of the genealogical pursuit will be different for everyone, with certain commonalities, such as symptoms, identification, projection, participation mystique, etc. Without guidelines much of this natural personal process remains unconscious and can be problematical -- individually, in the family, and in genealogical and heritage groups. At a cultural level, we also assimilate the shock of a personal descent from historical figures -- the historical burden. The collective is mythic and archetypal, while the cosmological is integrative.
The deeper we work into the World Tree the more widely shared the ancestry becomes. Chances are that most individuals seeking their ancestry will not seek treatment but can benefit from a contextualization of those experiences. We can jump to wrong conclusions from too little information. It happens to our beliefs and our cognitive interpretations.
They also will not stop at the Fourth Generation. What distinguishes de facto Transgenerational Genealogy from conventional or Jungian approaches is plunging deeper into the Medieval, legendary, and mythic layers of one's pedigree, rather than just the first few generations. But we can not concentrate only on the royal lines, because many other descents far out number them. Genetically, they have no priority; we may carry none of their genes.
Myths are our deep background. We need myth because it speaks emotionally of and to the soul, giving meaning to loss and suffering. It may be a painful struggle that reminds us we are very much alive. We find myth not only at the root of our ancient lines but in each and every life between, in the roles and archetypal patterns that constitute our direct heritage. Jung suggests the dynamic is the same whether we think of them as instincts or gods and goddesses. We can re-enchant our world by saying a prayer to the lords and ladies, by whatever names they wish to be known. Invisible spirits are made visible.
Grail Bearers
The genealogical Quest for the Grail shares something in common with the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, which forms itself. The magic of genealogy as the magic of the Stone is in the seeking after it. The Grail is our own transformation.
The Philosopher's Stone declares,
"My light, exceeds every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I give freely and reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory, riches, delights; and them that "seek" after me I make to know and understand, and to posses divine things." --Golden Tractates of Hermes
In the search for the stone, it is the work that counts. One should not worry too much about the right way. The right way with the wrong person will never succeed. The wrong way with the right person will eventually right itself, for the stone is found at the crossroads of Heaven and Earth. Those who seek the Stone with true heart, shall be found by the Stone itself.
As someone's descendant we answer the call. Like the Fisher King, we seek the Salmon of Knowledge. The transgenerational group is integrated within the individual. Much of the effect is intrinsic. For Jung, fantasy is an integrative function. Imaginative expressions of hidden forces appear spontaneously as the direct expression of psychic life, creative and imaginative activity inherent in each and every moment.
Our lineage is our own, personal Mystery Play. We can allow the phenomena to speak - the multitude of personalities to speak, to be personified. Images are also voices -- messages from the dead. We need a sense of the ancestors. For most, that sense may be more poetic than clinical...the poetry of everyday life as it stretches back into the mists before time.
What is the power of the individual against the voice of the whole people in him? ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 365.
There is essentially no difference between doing genealogy or psychogenealogy, except perhaps the addition of a few evocative techniques. We don't just study it, but interact with it -- with the ancestors. It may be less what we think about it and more its effect on us. Information is naturally excited in the genealogical process as images, sensations, intuitions, synchronicities, insights, and more.
But psychogenealogy attempts to find workable answers when elements embedded in the family memory are now limiting an individual in a particular way.
Individual and collective consciousness is shaped in crucial ways by cognition of collective family experiences. What tends to get passed on is the overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable. Much of history has been lost, distorted, or blotted out. We can focus on genetics, culture, spirit, and emotion as keys to the ancestral door. We can break our identification with a traumatic or unresolved past and still honor and consciously grieve our ancestors.
Genealogy is a tool for family therapy and self-knowledge. We carry secret stories from before our lifetime. The entire family tree is both a trauma archive and a resource for healing. Yet children raised in difficult circumstances often show enhanced mental flexibility. Much of what is unconscious to us is revealed in our lines. We still have to amplify, work with, interpret, and integrate that information.
We can reframe our relationship with pain, fear, and grief at the familial and ancestral level. Current research on well-being describes two perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance; and the eudaimonic approach, which focuses on meaning and self-realization and defines well-being in terms of the degree to which a person is fully functioning. The later may be more important. Composed of the words "eu" ("good") and "daimōn" ("spirit") it fits the ancestral theme.
This spirit is an autonomous psychic happening, a hush that follows the storm, a reconciling light in the darkness of man’s mind, secretly bringing order into the chaos of his soul. ~Carl Jung; CW 11; Paragraph 260.
This is part of the Genealogical Journey.
In this way we follow Nature and our nature back to our Origin.
We can pursue both a psychological and genealogical approach to wisdom. Realizations and self-actualization arise naturally in the process of compiling such a genealogy, as we recall exactly who we are, thereby approaching our wholeness...
for a 21st century Renaissance.
Spiritually, genealogy can strengthen our faith in the ancestors. We may find spiritual meaning in reconstructions of suppressed ancient religions or eclectic practices. In conducting Celtic genealogical research we rediscover the folk stories of our ancestors or the ancient deities once worshipped in other lands. The precise meaning and value of the old gods and goddesses will vary between listeners, but some find spiritual meaning in reclaiming ancient mysteries nearly lost to the modern ages.
Subjective mental life is a primary metaphor of
subjective Experience;
Primary Metaphor Becomes Embodied
and maps across generations.
The Grounding of the Whole is the grounding of its parts.
We reason with such metaphors.
(Lakoff & Johnson)
This argument against expunging legend and myth
from traditional genealogy practice is simple:
What happens outside us in these days is the image that the peoples live in events, to bequeath this image immemorially to far-off times so that they might learn from it for their own way; just as we learned from the images that the ancients had lived before us in events. ~Carl Jung, The Red book, Page 239.
"But if the believer without religion now thinks that he has got rid of mythology he is deceiving himself: he cannot get by without "myth."
~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 482-488
Psychology Today: Why do people spend decades tracing their lineages? Thinking about one's ancestors provides comfort, improves one's ability to deal with challenges and actually boosts cognitive performance, new research shows.
In a simple experiment, researchers asked people to think about their ancestors (or something else) and then measured their beliefs about their own performance on several cognitive tests. People who had been made to think about their ancestors expected to do better on the tests.
But did they actually do better? Yes. Researchers Peter Fischer, Anne Sauer, Claudia Vogrincic and Silke Weisweiler found that people who had recently thought about their ancestors actually did better on cognitive tests of intelligence than people who had been made to think of other things.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the significance of our genealogy as more than
a metaphor for the cyclical unfolding of our life story
To understand the timing of transgenerational patterns throughout
different eras of history, and times of transition
To apply the timing of great cycles to our genealogy and life events
and reflect on the unfolding of our goals
If his individual experience is a living thing, it will share the quality of all life, which does not stagnate but, being in continual flux, brings ever new aspects to light.
~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 482-488
The Argument:
After the deconstruction of the postmodern era, we need a reconstruction from the ground up -- a post-postmodern coagulatio to match that solutio. The metadata hidden in our genealogy can supply such information hidden in the cognitive and emotional unconscious as structure, embodied memory, lineage, and collective wisdom. Significant knowledge can enlighten our whole being. We can participate with it or remain unconscious of it. Jung noted that we are losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. Few forces are as strong in the psyche as genetics, sex and death.
History often reveals who underwent trauma:
wars; plague; torture; physical and mental abuse; abandonment; disowning; miscarriage; stillbirth; orphaning; kidnapping; birth trauma and defects; neglect; arson; homelessness; migration; toxic caregivers; suicide; murder; terror; spiritual abuse; divorce or never marrying; family secrets; attachment disorder; banishing; grief; dependence; incest; rape; affairs, separation; isolation; "mystery ancestors"; addictions; exhaustion; hypochondria; obsession; paranoia; personality disorder; schizophrenia; depression; emotional numbness; heresy; chronic anxiety; crime; social, financial, legal, displacement; zealotry; excommunication; poverty; famine; humiliation; internment; fanaticism; bigotry; cults; expulsion; eviction; slavery; betrayal; genocide; revenge; anger; execution; molestation; extortion; conquering;
natural disasters; catastrophes, cataclysm; cultural and ethical issues, etc.
The Conclusion:
Obviously, all genealogy is transgenerational. So long as our ancestry remains unconscious, we are marginalizing Nature and our nature. Yet, nature encompasses us. Jung notes that dreams are pure nature. He was concerned for our culture if we lost our roots. The same holds true at the personal level.
Genealogy can be approached as a clinical science but remains more of an art -- in many cases a shamanic art or self-initiation, as well as the art of relationship. We thread our way through a labyrinth of of light and dark characters. Our charts are catacombs of our forebearers. Our noble lineage becomes a royal road to ancient ancestors. But such a labyrinth of projections in the charts of a fantasist can produce self-delusion. In the chart of a realist it may remain dry facts. Fabulists embellish, while pragmatists may be stale. A middle way might be both enlivened and informed.
We Re-Collect
While some people may deeply pursue formal therapy, complex genogram relationships, or workshops, the vast majority will not. Those genealogical explorers will experience a spectrum of spontaneous effects, developing their own theories, interpretations, and directions from their ancestral encounters and revelations. It may be, as Jung suggests, that through dreams the ancestors compensate our ego attitudes. Even then, we make subjective and objective observations
and interpretations. In the blink of an eye, we can change our feelings about culture and human nature.
How little must the root-ancestors of each of our hoary lines have imagined in their own day for their millions of descendants? Even our "dead end" ancestors had antecedents; we just cannot know them, at least not through history. But seeds of knowledge in the head blossom in the fertile soil of the heart. We are formed directly from within.
Our Genesis
Genealogy used to be largely a quest for the father's direct line. But with today's algorithms we can find numerous distaff lines back through the ancestral field into the Heart of the Feminine and our mitochondrial inheritance, shared genetically by all genders.
Often these matriarchal lines reach further back in time than the paternal line. This is the realm of the mothers and their families brought to the tree -- our gateway into the unconscious. We descend from it, and like Faust, into initiation in this womb of potentiality from which the world is continuously born as the creative flow of the unconscious.
The ancients often incorporated images of death in their funeral rites, on mummy cases, the walls of tombs, and death masks. Some might find death photos macabre and yet they are simply a final remembrance of the beloved, which can help us personify that relative.
Imagistically, the dead continue their very long journey in the afterlife. The unconscious believes in the afterlife. Their events become our meaningful experiences -- their actions our ideas and reflections, insights alive with creativity and fantasy. Our persistent search for Who? leads us down and back. Each one strikes a different part of us.
Psychological effects of the genealogical pursuit will be different for everyone, with certain commonalities, such as symptoms, identification, projection, participation mystique, etc. Without guidelines much of this natural personal process remains unconscious and can be problematical -- individually, in the family, and in genealogical and heritage groups. At a cultural level, we also assimilate the shock of a personal descent from historical figures -- the historical burden. The collective is mythic and archetypal, while the cosmological is integrative.
The deeper we work into the World Tree the more widely shared the ancestry becomes. Chances are that most individuals seeking their ancestry will not seek treatment but can benefit from a contextualization of those experiences. We can jump to wrong conclusions from too little information. It happens to our beliefs and our cognitive interpretations.
They also will not stop at the Fourth Generation. What distinguishes de facto Transgenerational Genealogy from conventional or Jungian approaches is plunging deeper into the Medieval, legendary, and mythic layers of one's pedigree, rather than just the first few generations. But we can not concentrate only on the royal lines, because many other descents far out number them. Genetically, they have no priority; we may carry none of their genes.
Myths are our deep background. We need myth because it speaks emotionally of and to the soul, giving meaning to loss and suffering. It may be a painful struggle that reminds us we are very much alive. We find myth not only at the root of our ancient lines but in each and every life between, in the roles and archetypal patterns that constitute our direct heritage. Jung suggests the dynamic is the same whether we think of them as instincts or gods and goddesses. We can re-enchant our world by saying a prayer to the lords and ladies, by whatever names they wish to be known. Invisible spirits are made visible.
Grail Bearers
The genealogical Quest for the Grail shares something in common with the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, which forms itself. The magic of genealogy as the magic of the Stone is in the seeking after it. The Grail is our own transformation.
The Philosopher's Stone declares,
"My light, exceeds every light, and my good things are better than all other good things. I give freely and reward the intelligent with joy and gladness, glory, riches, delights; and them that "seek" after me I make to know and understand, and to posses divine things." --Golden Tractates of Hermes
In the search for the stone, it is the work that counts. One should not worry too much about the right way. The right way with the wrong person will never succeed. The wrong way with the right person will eventually right itself, for the stone is found at the crossroads of Heaven and Earth. Those who seek the Stone with true heart, shall be found by the Stone itself.
As someone's descendant we answer the call. Like the Fisher King, we seek the Salmon of Knowledge. The transgenerational group is integrated within the individual. Much of the effect is intrinsic. For Jung, fantasy is an integrative function. Imaginative expressions of hidden forces appear spontaneously as the direct expression of psychic life, creative and imaginative activity inherent in each and every moment.
Our lineage is our own, personal Mystery Play. We can allow the phenomena to speak - the multitude of personalities to speak, to be personified. Images are also voices -- messages from the dead. We need a sense of the ancestors. For most, that sense may be more poetic than clinical...the poetry of everyday life as it stretches back into the mists before time.
What is the power of the individual against the voice of the whole people in him? ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 365.
There is essentially no difference between doing genealogy or psychogenealogy, except perhaps the addition of a few evocative techniques. We don't just study it, but interact with it -- with the ancestors. It may be less what we think about it and more its effect on us. Information is naturally excited in the genealogical process as images, sensations, intuitions, synchronicities, insights, and more.
But psychogenealogy attempts to find workable answers when elements embedded in the family memory are now limiting an individual in a particular way.
Individual and collective consciousness is shaped in crucial ways by cognition of collective family experiences. What tends to get passed on is the overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable. Much of history has been lost, distorted, or blotted out. We can focus on genetics, culture, spirit, and emotion as keys to the ancestral door. We can break our identification with a traumatic or unresolved past and still honor and consciously grieve our ancestors.
Genealogy is a tool for family therapy and self-knowledge. We carry secret stories from before our lifetime. The entire family tree is both a trauma archive and a resource for healing. Yet children raised in difficult circumstances often show enhanced mental flexibility. Much of what is unconscious to us is revealed in our lines. We still have to amplify, work with, interpret, and integrate that information.
We can reframe our relationship with pain, fear, and grief at the familial and ancestral level. Current research on well-being describes two perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance; and the eudaimonic approach, which focuses on meaning and self-realization and defines well-being in terms of the degree to which a person is fully functioning. The later may be more important. Composed of the words "eu" ("good") and "daimōn" ("spirit") it fits the ancestral theme.
This spirit is an autonomous psychic happening, a hush that follows the storm, a reconciling light in the darkness of man’s mind, secretly bringing order into the chaos of his soul. ~Carl Jung; CW 11; Paragraph 260.
This is part of the Genealogical Journey.
In this way we follow Nature and our nature back to our Origin.
We can pursue both a psychological and genealogical approach to wisdom. Realizations and self-actualization arise naturally in the process of compiling such a genealogy, as we recall exactly who we are, thereby approaching our wholeness...
for a 21st century Renaissance.
Spiritually, genealogy can strengthen our faith in the ancestors. We may find spiritual meaning in reconstructions of suppressed ancient religions or eclectic practices. In conducting Celtic genealogical research we rediscover the folk stories of our ancestors or the ancient deities once worshipped in other lands. The precise meaning and value of the old gods and goddesses will vary between listeners, but some find spiritual meaning in reclaiming ancient mysteries nearly lost to the modern ages.
Subjective mental life is a primary metaphor of
subjective Experience;
Primary Metaphor Becomes Embodied
and maps across generations.
The Grounding of the Whole is the grounding of its parts.
We reason with such metaphors.
(Lakoff & Johnson)
This argument against expunging legend and myth
from traditional genealogy practice is simple:
What happens outside us in these days is the image that the peoples live in events, to bequeath this image immemorially to far-off times so that they might learn from it for their own way; just as we learned from the images that the ancients had lived before us in events. ~Carl Jung, The Red book, Page 239.
"But if the believer without religion now thinks that he has got rid of mythology he is deceiving himself: he cannot get by without "myth."
~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 482-488
Psychology Today: Why do people spend decades tracing their lineages? Thinking about one's ancestors provides comfort, improves one's ability to deal with challenges and actually boosts cognitive performance, new research shows.
In a simple experiment, researchers asked people to think about their ancestors (or something else) and then measured their beliefs about their own performance on several cognitive tests. People who had been made to think about their ancestors expected to do better on the tests.
But did they actually do better? Yes. Researchers Peter Fischer, Anne Sauer, Claudia Vogrincic and Silke Weisweiler found that people who had recently thought about their ancestors actually did better on cognitive tests of intelligence than people who had been made to think of other things.
Learning Objectives:
To understand the significance of our genealogy as more than
a metaphor for the cyclical unfolding of our life story
To understand the timing of transgenerational patterns throughout
different eras of history, and times of transition
To apply the timing of great cycles to our genealogy and life events
and reflect on the unfolding of our goals
If his individual experience is a living thing, it will share the quality of all life, which does not stagnate but, being in continual flux, brings ever new aspects to light.
~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 482-488
