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In "Views of the Apocalypse" (Orion, Winter 2019), Lisa Wells, author of the biographical work Believers, reports paying attention to her repeated experience of falling down various stairways. She finds herself thinking about Freud’s notion of parapraxis, where something internal emerges through a crack into the everyday but in an alien form, subject to immediate denial. Read More |
We would like to acknowledge the concerns raised regarding this March 2024 Digest around the lack of distinction between Jewish people and the Israeli government in the context of the Gaza crisis. In response, we engaged in a reflective process, and a dialogue has emerged amongst a group of CPA members. We encourage readers of the March 2024 Digest to also read our response which now appears in the February 2025 Digest. Below is part 1 of the Digest conversation, and you can access part 2 via the following link (us8.campaign-archive.com).
A week ago, the Open University's "OpenLearn" website went live with a free short course called Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis. It was inspired and written by two CPA members, Trudi Macagnino, a staff tutor at the OU and Wendy Hollway, a retired OU academic staff member. Here it is - as easy as clicking this link (open.edu). The first week opens in this way:
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What has singing got to do with the climate and ecological crisis?
This is the question I have set myself in the writing of this digest. Writing it arose from a post I wrote for my newsletter “the Imaginal Ecologist” called “Sounds heard through an Imaginal Doorway: Ways to Deepen a song”.
Long ago, as a small child, the wind lifted me and toppled me to the ground when the strong rains came. It was my first experience of natural power.
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