Jung and the evolution of consciousness

Combs, Allan; Krippner, Stanley

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“…A specific feature of chaotic neural states is that they can generate novel patterns of neural activities and novel synaptic connections, which may link less associated or dissociative mental states into a coherent whole ( Kahn and Hobson, 1993 ; Kahn et al, 2000 ). For example, several findings suggest that high complexity and self-organization manifest also during creative divergent thinking ( Combs, 1996 ; Mölle et al, 1996 ). Specifically in the REM sleep these integrative processes support “binding” functions of dreams, which connect dream images coherently together that enables novel creative unity of conscious experience ( Revonsuo and Tarkko, 2002 ).…”

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Dissociative states in dreams and brain chaos: implications for creative awareness

Bob

Louchakova

2015

Front. Psychol.

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This article reviews recent findings indicating some common brain processes during dissociative states and dreaming with the aim to outline a perspective that neural chaotic states during dreaming can be closely related to dissociative states that may manifest in dreams scenery. These data are in agreement with various clinical findings that dissociated states can be projected into the “dream scenery” in REM sleep periods and dreams may represent their specific interactions that may uncover unusual psychological potential of creativity in psychotherapy, art, and scientific discoveries.

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Section: Dreams Conscious Awareness and Novel Ideasmentioning

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Dissociative states in dreams and brain chaos: implications for creative awareness

Bob

Louchakova

2015

Front. Psychol.

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“…It was not that depth and space did not exist previously, but the birth of perspective brought something new to the human experience (Combs 2014). Through the awareness of location in relation to objects, a heightened sense of depth and spatiality became a new component of consciousness, and this new capacity allowed the world to be viewed in terms of objectivity.…”

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“…He was one of the greatest contributors to the study of the evolution of consciousness, and he believed that its changes could be seen throughout history in art (Combs 2014 Gebser's archaic structure of preconsciousness Archaic structure Gebser (1985) used the term archaic to describe the structure he said was originally identical to origin. There is no perspective, no sense of otherness, and the distinction between object and subject does not exist; there is no differentiation between self and nature, or between self and universe (Mohrhoff 2008).…”

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Reframing hunting, gathering, tool-making and art, as expressions of evolution of consciousness as depicted in Jean Gebser’s ‘the ever-present origin’

Ilongo

2017

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Hunting and gatheringAccording to Dictionary.com (2017), hunting and gathering refer to the action of relying primarily or exclusively on hunting wild animals, fishing and gathering wild fruits, berries, nuts and vegetables to support one's diet, Until hunter-began to domesticate plants and animals about 10 000 years ago, all human societies were hunter-gatherers.Hunting and gathering are also defined as follows:1. Of a society, lifestyle, surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence. 2. Hunting-gathering is associated with uncivilised people, that is, those lacking culture or sophistication. Civilised means having a highly developed society and culture. Civilisation is generally defined as people who have attained a triple combination of industrial capability, technological sophistication and economic productivity. Tool-makingThe history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques ranging from as simple as language and stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. New knowledge has enabled people to create new things, and conversely, many scientific endeavours are made possible by technologies that assist humans in travelling to places they could not previously reach and by scientific instruments by which we study nature in more detail than our natural senses allow. The idea that consciousness, or experience, has evolved and may continue to evolve through time and history has been explored in one way or another by many philosophers and pioneers of the inner life, but is seen nowhere more clearly than in the history of art. No one understood this better than the poet and cultural historian Jean Gebser, who contributed perhaps more than any other scholar to understanding the history of human consciousness. Art and the evolution of consciousnessGebser's explorations of art and history begin with a sudden recognition that art at the fin de siècle represented a new kind of consciousness, a new way of seeing and experiencing reality. With this in mind, he searched backward through history to uncover a whole series of 'structures of This article explores the evolution of consciousness as directly correlated to hunting, gathering, tool-making and art. The methodology is qualitative theoretical analyses, articulated around Jean Gebser's seminal work, The Ever-Present Origin. Hunting and gathering are expressions of a magical, unitary, 'self-dissolving' consciousness. Tool-making on the other hand is depicted as evolving from a mythical consciousness of duality, polarity, symbolism and a state of being qualified by 'crystallisation of the I'. Lastly, art is a function of a consciousness of 'selftranscendence', 'I and I', idealisation and a transpersonal state of being. The article concludes by positing that hunting, gathering, tool-making and art can be reframed as 'forms of the movement of consciousness'.Reframing hunting, gathering, tool-making and art, as expressions of evolution of consciousness as depicted in...

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“…While the central aim of most theories of creativity is to account for the existence of creative products, arose to account for the cumulative, open-ended nature of cultural evolution. HT grew out of the view that humans possess two levels of complex, adaptive, self-organizing, evolving structure: an organismic level, and a psychological level (Freeman, 1991; Varela et al, 1991; Barton, 1994; Pribram, 1994; Combs, 1996; Gabora, 1998, 2017). We refer to this psychological level as a worldview: an individual’s unique dynamic web of understanding that provides a way of both seeing the world and being in the world (i.e., a mind as it is experienced from the inside).…”

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The Ubiquity of Cross-Domain Thinking in the Early Phase of the Creative Process

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To what extent are creative processes in one domain (e.g., technology) affected by information from other domains (e.g., music)? While some studies of professional creators suggest that creative abilities are domain-specific, other studies suggest that creative avocations stimulate creativity. The latter is consistent with the predictions of the honing theory of creativity, according to which the iterative process culminating in a creative work is made possible by the self-organizing nature of a conceptual network, or worldview, and its innate holistic tendency to minimize inconsistency. As such, the creative process is not restricted to the creative domain; influences from domains other than that of the final product are predicted to impact the creative process and its outcome. To assess the prevalence of cross-domain influences on creativity we conducted two studies: one with creative experts, and one with undergraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds. Participants listed both their creative outputs, and the influences (sources of inspiration) associated with each of these outputs. In both studies, cross-domain influences on creativity were found to be widespread, and indeed more frequent than within-domain sources of inspiration. Thus, examination of the inputs to, rather than the outputs of, creative tasks supported the prediction of honing theory that cross-domain influences are a ubiquitous component of the creative process.

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Jung and the evolution of consciousness

Cited by 7 publications

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Dissociative states in dreams and brain chaos: implications for creative awareness

Dissociative states in dreams and brain chaos: implications for creative awareness

Reframing hunting, gathering, tool-making and art, as expressions of evolution of consciousness as depicted in Jean Gebser’s ‘the ever-present origin’

The Ubiquity of Cross-Domain Thinking in the Early Phase of the Creative Process

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