Psyche (Greek) [from psycho breathe, blow; cf Greek pneuma from pneo to breathe, blow; Latin anima, spiritus all connected with breath, wind, spirit, life, soul]

Used in classic Greek as vaguely as is our word soul; but in Platonic philosophy and theosophical usage, the lower or carnally influenced aspect of the mind or soul, as contrasted with the higher or spiritually influenced aspect: kama-manas as against buddhi-manas, the latter represented by the Greek nous. From these two words are derived the adjectives psychic and noetic.

The story of Cupid and Psyche -- where Psyche represents the human soul as such, apart from special connection with buddhi or kama -- depicts the search for happiness, or the course of human love. Psyche is of mortal birth, but so beautiful that Venus herself becomes jealous and sends Cupid to inspire Psyche with love for an unworthy object. But Cupid himself becomes enamored of Psyche. The love between Cupid and Psyche cannot be realized in the atmosphere of earthly passion and delusion, and is fulfilled only when Psyche, reconciled with Venus, is taken to the Olympian heights. The emblem of Psyche was the butterfly, which in winged joy comes forth into the sunlight from its prison of caterpillar and chrysalis.

The Greek verb from which psyche is derived also means to chill, make cold; and this has an application to the psyche as the lower part of the human soul and therefore closely connected with the kama-rupa and astral light after death. Hence it is that those who dabble in necromantic experiments, or even in psychic experiences, often refer to a damp, chill, and often clammy sensation in the atmosphere when contact with these kama-rupic entities is made. This should be warning that such contact is not only highly unwholesome, but a danger signal that one is dealing with death and decay.

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Early examples of psych folk bands were Syd Barrett, The Incredible String Band, and Tyrannosaurus Rex. It has continued to be performed up to the present day. Other notable psych folk artists are Robyn Hitchcock and Current 93. Since the 1990s, Elephant Six Collective, with bands like Neutral Milk Hotel has been known to release psych folk records. The latest generation of psych folk artists in the early 2000s include Animal Collective, DeVotchKa, Faun Fables, testface, Sun City Girls, Dame Darcy, Kemialliset Ystävät, Devandra Banhart, PG Six, Pothole Skinny, Tower Recordings, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, ...

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Psych folk, Psych folk - Overview

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Aphrodite, in many of the myths involving her, is characterized as vain, ill-tempered and easily offended. Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband. Hephaestus, of course, is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities; Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war. In Homer's Iliad she surges into battle to save her son, but abandons him (in fact, drops him as she flies through the air) when she herself is hurt (Ares does much the same thi ...

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Hillman’s archetypal psychology is inspired by and heavily indebted to Jung’s analytical psychology (and to an extent Freud’s psychoanalysis), yet at the same time is a radical departure from it. Whereas Jung’s psychology focused on the Self, its dynamics and its constellations (ego, anima, animus, shadow), Hillman’s archetypal psychology relativizes and deliteralizes the ego and focuses on the psyche, or soul, itself and the archai, the deepest patterns of psychic functioning, “the fundamental fantasies that animat ...

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James Hillman, James Hillman - Brief Biography, James Hillman - Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman - Influences, James Hillman - Psyche or Soul, James Hillman - Dream Analysis, James Hillman - The Soul's Code, James Hillman - Select Bibliography

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His book The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling outlines what he calls the acorn theory of the soul. This theory states that each individual holds the potential for their unique possibilites inside themselves already, much as an acorn holds the pattern for an oak, invisible within itself. It argues against the parental fallacy whereby our parents are seen as crucial in determining who we are by supplying us with genetic material and behavioral patterns. Instead the book suggests for a reconnection with what is invisible w ...

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James Hillman, James Hillman - Brief Biography, James Hillman - Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman - Influences, James Hillman - Psyche or Soul, James Hillman - Dream Analysis, James Hillman - The Soul's Code, James Hillman - Select Bibliography

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BASEketball - Layout of the field. The pitcher's mound consists of a basketball hoop. There are four bases, as there are in baseball, but the distances between them are shortened, as there is no pitcher. There are nine squares radiating from the hoop: three single squares (small, yellow), three double squares (medium, red), and three triple squares (large, blue wedges). Instead of hitting a ball to right field, the player shoots from the single, double, or triple square on the left side of the infield. Instead of ...

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James Hillman was born in a hotel room in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1926. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944-1946, after which he attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1950. In 1959, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich as well as his analyst's diploma from the Jung Institute. He was immediately hired as the Director of Studies at the Jung Institute, a position he held until 1969. In 1970, Hillman became editor of Spring Publications, a publishing company devoted to advanc ...

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James Hillman, James Hillman - Brief Biography, James Hillman - Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman - Influences, James Hillman - Psyche or Soul, James Hillman - Dream Analysis, James Hillman - The Soul's Code, James Hillman - Select Bibliography

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The epithet Aphrodite Acidalia was occasionally added to her name, after the spring she used to bathe in, located in Boeotia (Virgil I, 720). She was also called Kypris or Cytherea after her alleged birth-places in Cyprus and Cythera, respectively. The island of Cythera was a center of her cult. She was associated with Hesperia and frequently accompanied by the Oreads, nymphs of the mountains. Aphrodite had a festival of her own, the Aphrodisiac, which was celebrated all over Greece but particularly in Athens and Corinth. In Corinth, intercourse with her priestesses was consider ...

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Aphrodite, Aphrodite - Worship, Aphrodite - Birth, Aphrodite - Adulthood, Aphrodite - Marriage with Hephaestus, Aphrodite - Aphrodite and Psyche, Aphrodite - Adonis, Aphrodite - The Judgement of Paris, Aphrodite - Pygmalion and Galatea, Aphrodite - Other Stories, Aphrodite - Aphrodite in Neopaganism, Aphrodite - Consorts and children, Aphrodite - Other names

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"Foam-arisen" Aphrodite was born of the sea foam near Paphos, Cyprus after Cronus cut off Uranus' genitals and the elder god's blood and semen dropped on the sea, where they began to foam. Aphrodite was born fully grown out of the foam. Thus Aphrodite is of an older generation than Zeus. Iliad (Book V) expresses another version of her origin, by which she was considered a daughter of Dione, who was the original oracular goddess ("Dione" being simply "the goddess," etymologically an equivalent of "Diana") at Dodona. In Homer, Aphrodite ...

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Culture of the Philippines - Major festivals. The Black Nazarene procession in Quiapo and Manila. The Fiesta del Santo Niño de Cebu (Festival of the Child Jesús) and Sinulog in the Visayas and Mindanao region. The Ati-Atihan Carnival, also in Visayas region. The Peñafrancia Festival in Naga City, Bicol Region. Except for the Peñafrancia Festival which is celebrated on the thrid Saturday and Sunday of September, all are celebrated ...

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Culture of the Philippines, Culture of the Philippines - Philippine Society, Culture of the Philippines - Other minorities, Culture of the Philippines - The Filipino Culture Psyche, Culture of the Philippines - Celebrations, Culture of the Philippines - Major festivals, Culture of the Philippines - Other religious festivals, Culture of the Philippines - National Holidays, Culture of the Philippines - Arts, Culture of the Philippines - Cuisine, Culture of the Philippines - Heritage, Culture of the Philippines - Music, Culture of the Philippines - Literature, Culture of the Philippines - Sports, Culture of the Philippines - Folk Traditions and Beliefs

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Filipinos cook a variety of national food influenced by both Castillian-Mexican and Asian cuisines such as: Adobo typically pork, slow-cooked in soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaves, and black pepper corns lechon (whole roast pig) lechon baka (roast cattle) chorizo sausages asado menudo chicharon torta empanadas adobong baboy adobong manok tsokolate (chocolate) polvoron pan de sal (breadrolls) m ...

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Sipa and cockfighting are the national sports in the Philippines. Other popular recreational sports include boxing, billiard, basketball, chess, ten-pin bowling and soccer. Boxing, billiard, basketball and soccer are popular among Filipinos, with virtually every barangay or barrio in the country having at least one boxing ring , billiard table, basketball court and soccer field. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) was founded in 1975. The sports where the Filipinos have gained enormous international success are boxing, billiar ...

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Culture of the Philippines, Culture of the Philippines - Philippine Society, Culture of the Philippines - Other minorities, Culture of the Philippines - The Filipino Culture Psyche, Culture of the Philippines - Celebrations, Culture of the Philippines - Major festivals, Culture of the Philippines - Other religious festivals, Culture of the Philippines - National Holidays, Culture of the Philippines - Arts, Culture of the Philippines - Cuisine, Culture of the Philippines - Heritage, Culture of the Philippines - Music, Culture of the Philippines - Literature, Culture of the Philippines - Sports, Culture of the Philippines - Folk Traditions and Beliefs

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Hinduism in the Philippines - Precolonial period. Historians speculate that the Philippines was under the Sri Vijaya Empire from the 4th to the 10th centuries. Before the Spanish colonial period, the archipelagos of Southeast Asia were under the influence of the traders of Hindu-Malayan culture, such as the Majapahit Empire, which was being supplanted by Islamic conquest by the Sultanates of Malacca, who had converted from Hinduism to Islam in 1414, and of Borneo. In the Majapahit Empire the last Hindu kings in a ...

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Hinduism in the Philippines, Hinduism in the Philippines - History, Hinduism in the Philippines - Precolonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - Spanish colonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - American colonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - Hinduism today, Hinduism in the Philippines - Psyche, Hinduism in the Philippines - Language, Hinduism in the Philippines - Vocabulary, Hinduism in the Philippines - Folklore, Hinduism in the Philippines - Art and literature, Hinduism in the Philippines - Holy places, Hinduism in the Philippines - People

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Strong Hindu influences are also common in Filipino languages and vocabulary. These words of Sanskrit origin entered the language via Malay. Local words like Guro (teacher) came from the Hindu word Guru. Karma, a Hindu concept, is culturally understood by Filipinos. Hinduism in the Philippines - Vocabulary. See also the Sanskrit words in the loan word section of the Tagalog language. bahagi (part, portion) in Tagalog, is bhag in Hindi, diwata (god or goddes ...

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The Ramayana and the Mahabharata" are the two great epics of India. Ramayana portrays the battle between good and evil. Rama, with his wife Sita and his brother Lakshmana, represent the eventual victory of good over evil, represented by Ravana, the ten-headed king. Rama is helped by the monkey king, Hanuman. and his tribes of monkeys. The Ramayana has influenced Asia and the rest of the world specially in terms of literature, culture and art. There are versions of Ramayana in almost all Asian countries, including China, which emphasiz ...

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Hinduism in the Philippines, Hinduism in the Philippines - History, Hinduism in the Philippines - Precolonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - Spanish colonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - American colonial period, Hinduism in the Philippines - Hinduism today, Hinduism in the Philippines - Psyche, Hinduism in the Philippines - Language, Hinduism in the Philippines - Vocabulary, Hinduism in the Philippines - Folklore, Hinduism in the Philippines - Art and literature, Hinduism in the Philippines - Holy places, Hinduism in the Philippines - People

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symbolic

Style used by the psyche to communicate its messages; language of the psyche

(See also: Symbolic, Body Mind and Soul)

The following piece has been transferred from the article on the philosophy of perception to demonstrate direct realist reasoning. Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid lived at the same time as Hume. Reid argued strenuously against the notion that ideas, or sense-data, are the immediate objects of perception at all -- he rejected representationalism. One of Reid's arguments was very simple, and went like this: If representationalism is correct, then we are forced to either skepticism or phenomenalism. But skepticism and phenomenali ...

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Direct realism, Direct realism - Examples of the direct realist approach

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The collective was officially founded in Denver, Colorado (but figuratively in Athens, Georgia) by childhood friends Bill Doss, Will Cullen Hart, Jeff Mangum, and Robert Schneider. The four grew up making music and sharing cassette tapes in Ruston, Louisiana. They all started their own bands and pet projects; Doss and Hart with Olivia Tremor Control (then called Synthetic Flying Machine), Mangum with Neutral Milk Hotel, and Schneider with the Apples in Stereo. Several Elephant Six projects began to find commercial success in the late 1990s, including Beulah, Elf Power, The Music Tapes, and Of M ...

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The Elephant Six Collective, The Elephant Six Collective - History, The Elephant Six Collective - Distinguishing characterisitcs, The Elephant Six Collective - External link

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ID - primitive impulses, unconscious forces of the psyche (Freud) (NAD)

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ARCHETYPES: extremely basic forms within the human psyche; the archaic "racial memories"

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IMAGE - awareness from the psyche that comes in various forms, such as words, a knowing or a vision. (NAD)

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