Thinking Magically and Critically, with Erin Sullivan
New / Featured Videos • 07-Dec-2014
Discovery is not design but emerges through a synthesis of magical thinking and critical thinking. Discovery and creation is imaged in the psyche and birthed by the diligence of critical thinking. In astrology, we must employ both: to get to the core of the horoscope, the mystery of human resilience and a unique vision of the invisible.
In her talk, Erin uses the explicit images and the fascinating horoscope of Marie Curie, her “love of the mystery” and search for the unseen as a magical/critical example.
Up Next in New / Featured Videos
-
The Visual Dimensions of the Venus-Ma...
This lecture explores the nature of the different visual images presented to us by the three Venus-Mars conjunctions of 2015. We will continue the “all conjunctions are not created equal” theme from earlier in the track, this time by differentiating the three Venus-Mars conjunctions of 2013 accor...
-
From Philosophy to Medicine in Tradit...
Astrology’s close linkage with natural philosophy meant that the development of ways to examine the soul in astrology first followed philosophical ideas, and then medical ones. Lee examines these two different approaches, and their astrological signatures, and how medical principles changed the c...
-
The Skin: Barrier and Bridge to the U...
The skin, in the symptoms it creates and displays, can reflect quite graphically deep-seated processes of the psyche that can be linked with the sufferer’s astrological make-up. In this lecture a range of skin disorders, some major and some deceptively trivial, will be examined to reveal their un...
