Eranos Yearbook 69: 2006/2007/2008 : Eranos reborn; the modernities of East and West; perspectives on violence and aggression; emerging images of humanity; the legacy tour

Presentations of the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Eranos Conferences, of the 2007 Fetzer and Eranos Conference, and of the 2008 Pacifica at Eranos Conference, Eranos & Monte Verita, Asdona, Switzerland.. "This Eranos Yearbook covers the events of the first three years since the relaunching of the Eranos Foundation in 2006.

Preface - John van Praag. Toward a conceptual model for the renewed Eranos - Alexander van Praag. Continuity and change in Eranos - Alexander van Praag. The Board of the Eranos Foundation. The Eranos Coordinating Council's vision statement. Part 1 - Presentations of the 2006 Eranos Conference "Eranos Reborn"...16-18 June 2006. Spirituality: East and West - Peter van der Veer. Reductionism: a Western disease? - Luigi Zoja. Eranos: past and future - Robert Temple. A breakthrough in individual and social transformation - Werner Erhard. Part 2 - Presentations of the 2007 Eranos Conference "The modernities of East and West"...1-3 June 2007. The Western legacy and our global future: an archetypal perspective - Richard Tarnas. Body and mind in Qi Gong and Yoga: a comparative perspective on India and China - Peter van der Veer. Psychology of the heart: an Oriental perspective - Heyong Shen. From logos to holos; some universal features of the needed transformation - Ervin Laszlo. Part 3 - Presentations of the 2007 Fetzer at Eranos Conference "Emerging images of humanity; exploring conscious participation in emergent processes". Using art in ethnographic research and representation--an emergence of images and knowledge - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod. Religion conflict, and the roots of violence - Ogbu Uke Kalu. Psychoanalysis and cultural orientations in the new century - Luigi Zoja. The resurgence of imagination - Sudhir Kakar. The emergence of a new humanity--spirituality, the zest for life, and the power of love - Ursula King. Part 4 - Presentations of the 2008 Eranos Conference "Perspectives on violence and aggression"...12-15 June 2008. Give violence a chance! - Alexander van Praag. Symbolic violence in myth and ritual - Lawrence E. Sullivan. Almachius and the demon; on violent shows - Luigi Zoja. Violence among peoples in the light of human frustration and aggression--an interdisciplinary perspective - Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman. Violence among peoples in the light of human frustration and aggression; a literary perspective - Ina de Gaay Fortman-van Bentum. Tangled roots in the mangrove forest; the cultural landscape of political violence in Africa - Ogbu Uke Kalu. Religious violence; Hindus and Muslims in India - Sudhir Kakar. Identity and the notion of the 'Other' - Nandita Das. Violence and aggression in nature: the role of the brain; a short note - Willem Hendrik Gispen. Roots of human violence; psychospiritual perspective on the current global crisis - Stanislav Grof. Part 5 - A presentation from the 2008 Pacifica at Eranos Conference The legacy tour of Zurich and Eranos...13-22 August 2008. Psychic energy's portal to presence in myth, poetry and culture - Dennis Patrick Slattery

'...The themes of the conferences...reflect both the long and prestigious tradition of the Eranos Foundation and the relevance of Eranos to the present.'

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