WEBSITE TABLE OF CONTENTS

WELCOME

What This Web Site Is About
Hints on How to Read the Dissertation
How to Navigate this Web Site
Layout of the Dissertation and Web Site
Shoulders of Giants
Preview of the Pattern

PRELUDE

The Big Picture

How Did We Actually Get Here?
Mission Impossible?
To Boldly Go… But What’s in It for Me?
“To Dream the Impossible Dream”
A Look at the Layout

INTRODUCTION

Opening Volley

** The State of Play Today
** The Personal Part
** Saved by the Stone!

A Continuing Overview of the Literature

** Play History and Theories
** Cosmic and Cosmological Play
** Eternal Return
** Creativity
** Trickster
**Synchronicity, Liminality, Paradox, Chaos, and the Transcendent Function

** Dionysus
** Bollingen Stone
**Myths and “Mythellaneous

Method and Its Ethical Implications

Statement of the Problem

Organization of the Study

METHODOLOGY

Bricolage Method

**Flavor and Overview
** Introducing Bricolage and My History as a Bricoleur
** Origins of Bricolage
** Post-Modern Bricolage or Bricolage in the Po-Mo Era
** Methodological Implications
** Brief Interlude: Written in Stone?  An Allegorical Tale Alluding to Method.
** Strengths and Weaknesses

Extra Excursions into Underlying Methods

** Hermeneutics
*** Origins and Etymology
*** Explanation: The Field of Hermeneutics
****Ancient Approach to Modern Methods
****Gadamer
****Ricoeur
****Romanyshyn and Goodchild
*** Deepening Understanding
****Dialogic Nature
****Experience and Art
****Horizons
****Application and Play
****Image, Reverie, and Autonomy of the Soul
*** Application to the Dissertation

** Heuristic Research
*** Discovery and Passion
*** Tacit Knowing and Indwelling
*** Depth Psychology and Heuristics
*** Heuristic Research and Artistic Creations

** Phenomenology
*** A Fidelity to Things
*** Metabletics

Artistic Method

** Artistic Dissertations
** Excursion Into Essay

*** A Few Facts About Fiction
*** A Bit About Art

** The Conversation between Depth Psychology and Culture
*** Art and the Origins of Depth Psychology
*** The Cultural Conversation
*** Movies as Depth Psychological Praxis

** Why The Web?
*** A Participatory Process
*** Acoustic Ascendancy
*** To and Fro
*** Psyche’s Postmodern Mirror

THE COSMIC GAME

Game Plan for the Cosmic Game

Cosmological Questions: What’s It All About, Alfie?

The Mind of God
But Why Bother?  The Divine Motive
Its All About Play: Lila 101
The Magic of Maya
How Do You Do It?—The Nuts and Bolts of Creation
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Is It Just One Big Divine Oops?

Gods And Games?

The Play’s the Thing—A Persistent Pervasive Notion
Ludic Cosmologies
The Games of Some Gods

Shiva’s Cosmic Lila

Background and Bio
Shiva’s Lila in Stone and Story—Monuments and Myths
Mythic Analysis
Dancing is My Life
Reprise—Putting It All Together, the Play of Gods
Shall We Play a Game?
The “Strange” Similarities between Shiva and Science

Eternal Return

An Ouroboric Perspective and the Limitations of Linearity
Here We Go Again—The Eternal Return
Paradox to the Rescue
Nietzsche’s Notion
Depth Psychology’s Preoccupations and Praxis

A Crash Course On Chaos

Chaotic Beginnings
Here We Go Again—Iteration
Two Roads in a Yellow Wood—The Perils of Bifurcation and SDIC
Taffy Pulling Apart
The Attraction of Attractors
Fascinating Fractals

Archetypes and Strange Attractors

Grof’s Psychology Of The Future

To Freud and Beyond—A New Map Needed
COEXes and Complexes
Animateur after All
Brave New Map
Monomythopoly—Eternal Return Edition

Passing Thoughts on the Cosmic Game

INTERLUDE

Introduction

Reiteration of Grof’s Cartography
Caillois’s Categories of Games
Grof’s Cartography Meets Caillois’s Categories
Beyond Categories – Original Play
Kaleidoscopes
Why Astrology?
Layout of the "Kaleidoscope of Culture"

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Karen Pohn is not associated in any official way with the Walt Disney Company, its subsidiaries, or its affiliates. The official Disney site is available at www.disney.com. This web site cosmicplay.net is my dissertation for my PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, www.pacifica.edu
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