http://www.neoteny.org/2009/06/21/integration-and-identification/ The American Left, Societal Transformation, and Biological Evolution Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.neoteny.org/2009/06/21/integration-and-identification/comment-page-1/#comment-2125 Mark S Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:43:55 +0000 http://www.neoteny.org/?p=457#comment-2125 Andrew, this all reminds me of the what Michael Ventura calls the psychology of the watcher, here: http://dmymias.blogspot.com/2008/11/below-is-letter-from-michael-ventura-to.html; "a constant companion, who is you and yet more than you, and who seems always with you, watching from a slight distance." I've had much the same compulsion to cross-pollinate across different spheres of experience; I was for instance guided as a musician for several years by Wendell Berry's vision of local, ordinary excellence in agriculture. And James Hillman, to whom Michael Ventura is writing in the above link, has done extraordinary work laying out a polytheistic psychology that might help inform your experience of a multiplicity of selves. I'm immensely pleased, in any case, to have found your blogs, as autism and evolution are longstanding interests of mine as well, and I'm quite congenial to your politics -- which may well not be surprising. I couldn't be happier to know you're working at laying out how they're all related. Hope to have more to say as I get a chance to read more. Andrew, this all reminds me of the what Michael Ventura calls the psychology of the watcher, here: http://dmymias.blogspot.com/2008/11/below-is-letter-from-michael-ventura-to.html; “a constant companion, who is you and yet more than you, and who seems always with you, watching from a slight distance.” I’ve had much the same compulsion to cross-pollinate across different spheres of experience; I was for instance guided as a musician for several years by Wendell Berry’s vision of local, ordinary excellence in agriculture. And James Hillman, to whom Michael Ventura is writing in the above link, has done extraordinary work laying out a polytheistic psychology that might help inform your experience of a multiplicity of selves. I’m immensely pleased, in any case, to have found your blogs, as autism and evolution are longstanding interests of mine as well, and I’m quite congenial to your politics — which may well not be surprising. I couldn’t be happier to know you’re working at laying out how they’re all related. Hope to have more to say as I get a chance to read more.

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