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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZGbD236fw

Northern Lights, by Tom Thomson, 1916

Эту цитату Ясперса можно прочитать совсем не вовремя и поэтому совершенно неверно ее понять. Может быть, понять ее правильно получится только если все это и так уже ясно. И тогда будет вовремя, и останется лишь согласиться.

«Если рефлексия над собой, принимающая форму углубленных психологических размышлений, становится господствующей атмосферой всей жизни, человек теряет почву под ногами.[…] Одна из опасностей психотерапии — тенденция обратить действительность психической жизни личности в самодовлеющую конечную цель. Человек, в силу утраты мира и Бога обожествляющий собственную душу, в конечном счете оказывается в пустоте.[…]

На пути психологической рефлексии над собой невозможно достичь того, что доступно только при условии полного посвящения себя бытию. Отсюда радикальное различие между влиянием «душевной гимнастики», используемой психиатрами для достижения чисто психологических целей, и историческим влиянием «упражнений», практиковавшихся жрецами, мистиками и философами всех времен и нацеленных на Бога или бытие;[…]

Человек должен заботиться о вещах, а не о себе (а если о себе, то только как о пути), о Боге, а не о вере, о бытии, а не о мышлении, о возлюбленном существе, а не о любви, о достижениях, а не о переживаниях, об осуществлении, а не о возможностях;[…]

В психологической атмосфере развивается эгоцентричная жизненная установка — причем именно тогда, когда мы осознанно стремимся к чему-то прямо противоположному. Человек как определенный субъект становится мерой всех вещей.[…]

Появляется своеобразное бесстыдство, склонность к демонстрации потаенных душевных глубин, к высказыванию того, что не может быть высказано без искажений, подчеркнутый интерес к переживаниям, навязчивость по отношению к психологической действительности другого человека.»

— Карл Ясперс. Общая психопатология (1913)

Lisa Nilsson, Angelico, 2012 (Japanese mulberry paper and the gilt edges of old books)

Léon Bonnat, Le Martyre de Saint Denis (1885) [detail]

«Many of us like to think that science can give us a complete, objective description of cosmic history, distinct from us and our perception of it. But this image of science is deeply flawed. In our urge for knowledge and control, we’ve created a vision of science as a series of discoveries about how reality is in itself, a God’s-eye view of nature.

Such an approach not only distorts the truth, but creates a false sense of distance between ourselves and the world. That divide arises from what we call the Blind Spot, which science itself cannot see. In the Blind Spot sits experience: the sheer presence and immediacy of lived perception.

Behind the Blind Spot sits the belief that physical reality has absolute primacy in human knowledge, a view that can be called scientific materialism. In philosophical terms, it combines scientific objectivism (science tells us about the real, mind-independent world) and physicalism (science tells us that physical reality is all there is). Elementary particles, moments in time, genes, the brain – all these things are assumed to be fundamentally real. By contrast, experience, awareness and consciousness are taken to be secondary.

[…]

Objectivism and physicalism are philosophical ideas, not scientific ones – even if some scientists espouse them. They don’t logically follow from what science tells us about the physical world, or from the scientific method itself. By forgetting that these perspectives are a philosophical bias, not a mere data-point, scientific materialists ignore the ways that immediate experience and the world can never be separated.»

— Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser, Adam Frank

https://aeon.co/amp/essays/the-blind-spot-of-science-is-the-neglect-of-lived-experience?__twitter_impression=true

«Consider the case of Bob. Bob had some standard-issue psychological problem. He had been in and out of therapy for years, tried dozens of different medications, none of them had helped at all. Then he decided to try our form of therapy. In his first session, the therapist asked him “Have you ever considered that your problems might be because of [the kind of thing our form of therapy says all problems are because of]?” Bob started laughing and crying simultaneously, eventually breaking into a convulsive fit. After three minutes, he recovered and proceeded to tell a story of how [everything in his life was exactly in accordance with our form of therapy’s predictions] and he had always reacted by [doing exactly the kind of thing our form of therapy predicts that he would]. Now that all of this was out in consciousness, he no longer felt any desire to have psychological problems. In a followup session two weeks later, the therapist confirmed that he no longer had any psychological problems, and had become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company and a renowned pentathlete.

[…]

Previous forms of therapy have failed because they were ungrounded. They were ridiculous mental castles built in the clouds by armchair speculators. But our form of therapy is based on hard science! For example, it probably acts on synapses or the hippocampus or something. Here are three neuroscience papers which vaguely remind us of our form of therapy. One day, neuroscience will catch up to us and realize that the principles of our form of therapy are the principles that govern the organization of the entire brain – if not all of multicellular life.»

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therapy-books/

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川國芳,
The Last Stand of the Kusunoki Heroes at Shijo-nawate 楠家勇士四條畷にて討死 (c.1851)

The Greek motto gnōthi sauton (know thyself, nosce te ipsum) combines with the image to convey the famous warning: Respice post te; hominem te esse memento; memento mori. (Look behind; remember that you are mortal; remember death.). Mosaic from excavations in the convent of San Gregorio, Via Appia, Rome, Italy.

все, что вам надо знать о терапии (и о жизни вообще)

https://twitter.com/scienceshitpost/status/1217561829808865282?s=12

Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey (18 February 1942 – 15 January 1997), known professionally as Tony McKay and Exuma, was a Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author best known for his almost unclassifiable music, a strong mixture of carnival, junkanoo, calypso, reggae, African music and folk music.

His lyrics were deeply immersed in the West African and Jamaican tradition of Obeah, a system of spiritual and healing practices developed among enslaved West Africans in the West Indies, practiced by many on the islands of The Bahamas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ja3Z9Z6LRo&feature=youtu.be&t=168