The Displacement of the goddess tradition by the warrior gods and the elevation of the patriarchal society. The mission of Philosophy to stay neutral and transcend all forms of dialectical opposites through firstly hylomorphic theory and second...

The Law of Moses and its factual legitimacy. Platos idea of Absolute transcendence versus Aristotles idea of immanent transcendence. Christian lamentation "Dust thou art and unto dust thou shallt return"

The deep song of Mythology versus the deep song of Philosophy that perhaps began with the balanced temperate Ancient Greek Mythological spirit of sythesis rather than opposition. Psychoanalyst Otto Rank and the likeness of mythological thought ...

Oriental v Occidental Mythology--The differing Garden plots. The role of Philosophy in the universalising of particular perspectives

Concluding reflections, The Kantian Imperative and answer to the question "What can we Hope For?" The mythological appeal of Art and the Renaissance. Michelangelo and putting truth to work.

The problems of self-actualisation when transcendental supports are removed

The  contrast between mythological, Philosophical and Scientific forms of understanding the realm of the sacred.

Spinoza, the Philosopher of the Infinite Buddhism and the noble path, The reconciliation of opposites in one substance

Dream images versus film images. Is the hero theme an archetype? Instrumentalities and ends in thmselves

Myth as "transparence to transcendence".  James Joyce, Thomas Mann and the links between Art and Mythology. Psychoanalysis as  interpreter of the symbols of mythology.

Heideggers Phenomenological description of instrumentalities and the place of machines in such an environment. Wittgenstein on the impossibility of a machine being alive and conscious

The world in certain of its aspects resembles the workings of a computer: input-process-output. Computer Programmers and the "Zombie-experience" (Weizenbaum). The new men and techné: the reduction of experience and understanding to something th...

Chat GPT does not qualify for the characterisation "artificial intelligence" because the word intelligence denotes a human power and the danger is that using such  terminology will result in equating these forms of intelligence with each o...

Chat GPT claims that it is not capable of human understanding but that it is capable of a type of learning. The Zombie new men, Weizenbaum claims, became like the machines they were programming.

Episode 2. Mythological narrative is no longer important in our contemporary modern societies, sharing the fate of Religion in our technologically oriented world in which film television and artificially intelligent computers  play increas...

Merleau-Ponty and the lived body. Sexuality is a general atmosphere of our life. Hacker and the categorical framework of Hylomorphism

Group Psychology and the Ego.  The Death Instinct Eros, Thanatos and Ananke. The Cogito and reflection. Hylomorphic conditionality

The active and the passive imagination and the interpretation of dreams. Kantian Critical connections and Phenomenological connections.

Jung and Freud. The Greek "Balance of the Mind". Kleins Whole and part, good and bad objects. Quattrocento Art. Freud and the "spiritual". Freuds criticism of Jungs occultism.

Jung and Freud, Jungs embrace of the occult ---Freuds more sceptical Kantian reservations

The out of body experience of "death" The magic number of 432,000 years the "orbit" of the constellations of the Zodiac. Connection of animals to numbers. Kants Critique of Teleological Judgment.

The lived body and the the rejection of positivist science. The sacred circle and the end of our journey.

Being has many meanings. Consciousness and Practical Intelligence. The river is a strong brown God. The transcendental unity of apperception

The noise of the I and the stillness of meditation--Kali and the black night. Buddhism and the extinguishing of the Light

The light of Consciousness and Death. Kundilini Yoga and the mystic swimming in the sea of the psychotic