Ecclesiastes in Dialogue with Theology, Philosophy and C. G. Jung (WIP)
1. Introduction Ecclesiastes The Book of Ecclesiastes is a brief collection of proverbs opening a dialogue with and between apocryphal writings, Theology, Philosophy, and C.G. Jung. While it does contain proverbial wisdom (especially in chapters 7 and 10), Ecclesiastes is…
Ecclesiastical Evolution of Mary Magdalene’s Feminine Archetypes
Knowledge Asset: Scriptural Hermeneutics, Christology, Feminine Archetypes Abstract of Magdalene’s Feminine Archetypes This essay reveals how the interwoven narratives of Luke and John act as the structural scaffolding for the composite Magdalene, and how John 20 brilliantly prefigures the Chalcedonian…
Famous Apocryphal Gospels: What They Are and How They Differ from the Canonical Gospels – a Jungian View
1. Introduction Apocryphal Gospels This essay explores the apocryphal gospels that are not part of the New Testament and asks what distinguishes them from the four canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Thanks to the accounts in the…
Hofstadter’s Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and The Glass Bead Game
1. Goedel Escher Bach: The Glass Bead Game as an Epistemic Mirror Read alongside Douglas Hofstadter’s Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979), and against the longer historical transition from Aristotelian scholasticism toward modern empirical and mathematical science, Hesse’s…
Hesse’s Glass Bead Game – Neural Networks’ as Internet ecosystem
Evolution of Internet ecosystems Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game provides a powerful metaphor for analyzing today’s digital social and knowledge networks as successive iterations of the Glass Bead Game. I approach this subject through two complementary hypotheses. The novel…
Active Imagination analogous using AI
I stumbled over an AI capability to reconstruct memory images from fragments. This conjecture proposes it resembles an analogues of a technique C. G..Jung called Active Imagination. Jungian Active Imagination allows to intentionally to interact with ones inner imagery by…
Infernal Affairs: HE KILLED SIEGFRIED, HIS HERO – Truth does not disappear. It loses its operational function.
The Infernal Affairs trilogy (I- III) presents a double infiltration structure between the Hong Kong police force and a triad organization. Its deeper structure is about the psychological destabilization of identity under competing evaluative frameworks not about crime resolution. At…
Augustus – Archetype of Magician and the Wise King – Princeps
This article wants to explore Caesar Augustus (formerly Octavian), Rome’s first emperor; his achievements and who he was from a Jungian angle. He transformed Rome from a crumbling, war-torn republic into a stable, wealthy (global) empire. His reign birthed the…
Sabina Spielrein’s, “Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being” – transformation as destruction for creation
INTRODUCTION This essay analyzes Sabina Spielrein’s most famous work, “Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being” (Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens, 1912) . It envisions her neither as a premature Jungian nor as a dissident Freudian, but as what…