CHAOSOPHY 2002: Tao of Resilience
The Tao of Resilience
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[Edited and Updated by Iona Miller, 2002]
Editorial Note: On 9-11-01 our whole world changed; chaos prevails. Even though it was a vital survival quality before, 'resilience,' both personal and collective, has become even more important as we make our emotional and pragmatic adjustments to this new era. Issues of emotional support, empathy, compassion, and spirituality have become highlighted in a new, more immediate way. Survival skills of adaptation, creativity, optimism, self-talk, life-strategy, trust, risk-reward assessment, humor, recovery and problem-solving or coping are more important than ever. This is equally true for both adults and children.
Therefore, we offer this deep background on its nature and how to tap into its healing or renewing power through the mentoring and Dream Journey process of Consciousness Restructuring. This paper, in different form, was originally presented at Pacifica Graduate Institute for Ms. Southwick's Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. Iona Miller has updated it to highlight its relevance to the Consciousness Restructuring Process, (CRP).
TAO OF RESILIENCE: CONTENTS
PART I:
Psychological Resilience
Redefining Resilience in Terms of Consciousness Restructuring Process
Developmental Theories
Piaget & Vygotsky
Wolin & Wolin
John Curtis Gowan
Developmental Self Psychology
Summary
Cognitive Theories
Emotional Intelligence
Left Brain, Right Brain
The Three Faces of Mind
Cognitive Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons
Summary
Psychodynamic Theories
Psychodynamics
Jungian Theories
Transpersonal Psychology
Consciousness Studies
Summary
Summary of Psychological Resilience Findings and CRP
PART II: THE TAO OF RESILIENCE
PHYSIOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
Evolution and Natural Selection
Human Ethology
Ethnology and Mythology
Summary
Morphogenetic Engineering
Dispositional Types
Somatotypes
Genetic Alternations
Summary
Vagal Tone Measures and Resilience
Homeostasis an the Autonomic Nervous System
Stress Vulnerability of Infants
Stress Vulnerability in Children and Adults
Summary
Summary of Physiological Resilience Findings
PART III: THE TAO OF RESILIENCE
PSYCHOPHYSICAL RESILIENCE
The Psychobiology of Resilience
Information Transduction
State-Dependent Memory, Learning & Behavior
Ultradian Healing Response
Summary
The Neurochemistry of Resilience
Biochemistry of the Body-Mind
Bio-mechanics of the Body-Brain
Quantum Mechanics of the Body-Mind
Summary
The Alchemy of Conscious Resilience
Dynamics of Reciprocal Causality
Something-for-Nothing
Alchemical Therapies, Holistic Remedies
Summary of Psychophysical Resilience Findings
Summary of the Spectrum of Psychophysical Resilience Findings
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A New Resilience Metaphor--Tao of Resilience, and References
PART IV: THE TAO OF RESILIENCE
A NEW RESILIENCE METAPHOR
Reply to Jung: Quantum Sermons to the Living
Functions of Distinctiveness
The Creative Evolution of Evolutionary Creation
Summary: Life is a Hologram of Holograms
Consciousness: A Reciprocal Function of Resilience
Making the Indistinct Distinct
Creating Adaptability
Summary: The Holographic "Enchanted Loom"
Resilience as "Tensegrity"
From Particles and Waves to Strings and Membranes
From Strings and Membranes to Struts and Cables
Summary: Energy Transducing Tensegrity Structures
Conclusions to Part III
PART V: THE TAO OF RESILIENCE, CONCLUSION
The Harmony and Order of Things
What is Resilience?
Tensegrity: The Finite Tension of Infinie Intention
Summary of the Known and Unknowable
REFERENCES
Author, Iona Miller
CHANGE AGENT: Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, she is interested in the transformations, the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, politics and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future?
META HARI: Performance artist and spywhisperer, Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Dream Network, PM&E, Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Chaosophy Journal, OAK, DNA Monthly, Pop Occulture, Schiffer, Bolero, Science-Art Research Centre, and more. She is a Gaia.com Ambassador and serves on the Board of Medigrace.org nonprofit organization. Recent print articles include Alchemy Journal Vol. 10 No.1, Mar 09 (Australia), Paranoia zine #44, #46, #49, #50 (USA), HunterGatheress Journal, Vol. I and Vol. II, JNLRMI (Russia), Der Golem (Germany), Antibiothis I and III (Portugal), The Art of Fetish (Miami), and Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroads (India). Her artwork has shown in Miami, Phoenix, New York, in magazines and more. Appearances include "21st Century Radio," "Untamed Dimensions," "Reality Portal," " Digital Long Island," "The Ascending Way," etc.
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