Radical Humanism and Re-Mything: Honoring Experiencers of Extreme States as the Carriers of Wisdom for Consciousness Evolution and Collective Transformation

As transmitters of the New Paradigm and psychospiritual templates that the planet needs in this time of transformation, extreme-state experiencers are the key to our evolution, and thus we need to honor them as such. Radical humanism is an expansion and deepening of our empathy, a call-to-action, and a way of telling the story differently. We are asked as therapists to be nothing less than liaisons to the oracular. We look to Jung, Laing, Rogers, and contemporary lineage holders in these synergistic and co-catalytic ways of holding and working with extreme states to shine light upon the potent and often misunderstood or pathologized realms of the chaotic and ecstatic, the devastating, blissful, and the overwhelming contact with the gnosis, beings, and energies that lie therein. We carry forth the work in our sessions that are part confessional, part energy transmission, and always opportunities for us to expand what we think we know about what is happening and how we feel about ourselves, these times, and our role in healing on all levels that is being offered in each moment that we are in our role as Sacred Witness and midwife to soul rebirth.

Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition

We add to the emerging body of literature highlighting cracks in the foundation of the mainstream energy transition narrative. We offer a tripartite analysis that re-characterizes the climate crisis within its broader context of ecological overshoot, highlights numerous collectively fatal problems with so-called renewable energy technologies, and suggests alternative solutions that entail a contraction of the human enterprise. This analysis makes clear that the pat notion of “affordable clean energy” views the world through a narrow keyhole that is blind to innumerable economic, ecological, and social costs. These undesirable “externalities” can no longer be ignored. To achieve sustainability and salvage civilization, society must embark on a planned, cooperative descent from an extreme state of overshoot in just a decade or two. While it might be easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for global society to succeed in this endeavor, history is replete with stellar achievements that have arisen only from a dogged pursuit of the seemingly impossible.

The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests

Despite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018–2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua’s historical and recent political protests and explain the Ortega administration’s responses, thus providing a rich case (with comparative data for context) that makes sense of this extraordinary period of protest. The empirical analysis buttresses our qualitative case study of protest motivations and tactics and extreme state violence that define four phases of the conflict. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses creates one of the first robust studies of protest–response dynamics of this protest crisis. We conclude that these protests are unique with respect to previous protests in the country and the region and that government repression was a logical response in some phases but was inconsistently applied.

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A personal and anecdotal account of postpartum depression with psychotic features can be understood as an extreme state addressed relationally using Carl Jung’s analytic psychology. The relationship between the analyst and the analysand is understood as the containing environment for the treatment. Rather than pathological, an understanding of this experience as natural and deeply psychological allows for personal growth and deepens the mother–child bond. A mother’s childhood wounds make their way into the field and through dreams are examined for their universal underpinnings. The natural healing mechanism within the psyche tended by the sensitive clinician becomes the force for change without the traditional interventions offered by a medical model.

Surviving in the shadow of the un/seen: on the paradoxical in/visibility of El Kazovsky

This short, first-person essay describes and briefly evaluates the life and work of the Russian–Hungarian trans-identified artist El Kazovsky (1948–2008). It principally focuses the author’s viewing of ‘The Survivor’s Shadow: The Life and Work of El Kazovsky’ – a massive, 19-room retrospective exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery in 2015–2016. The author explores the paradox of El Kazovsky’s visibility as a nationally celebrated artist in a moment of extreme state-sanctioned queer-phobia, and the illegibility of his transness. It ends by suggesting that the practice of ‘surviving in shadow’ is increasingly necessary given the continued worldwide drift toward reactionary ethno-nationalist politics that are hostile to trans lives.

Relation between the magnetic free energy and relative magnetic helicity in the MHD extreme state of solar corona

<p>Magnetic helicity is a quantity describing the twist, writhe, and torsion of magnetic field lines and magnetic configurations . The concept of magnetic helicity has successfully been applied to characterize solar coronal processes. A conjecture about one approximation relation between free magnetic free energy and relative magnetic helicity in the MHD extreme state of solar corona has been proposed by using the concept of magnetic helicity conservation and Lie-Poisson mechanical structure of MHD. We use constant α force-free filed extrapolation to check out this relation. We also apply this relation to analyze the results from the simulations and observations. Such relation may be helpful to predict the solar activity like the solar flares and CMEs</p>

Mykhailo Drahomanov’s ideas of parliament

Ukrainian parliamentarism and constitutionalism have a long history. Its brightest episode occurred 100 years ago, in 1917–1921, when the Ukrainian activists tried to cope with the breakup of the Romanov Empire by suggesting various projects of its reconstruction. In this article, I argue that the history of these projects began at least half a century earlier, when a young professor of history at Kiev University, Mykhailo Drahomanov, started to reflect upon future reorganization of the Russian Empire into a parliamentary state. Being an ardent advocate of turning the empire into a representative democracy, Drahomanov still felt uneasy about unapologetic support of parliamentarism. Having embraced Proudhonian idea of anarchy or self-government, he realized that the existence of parliament was not a universal cure for all political ills of the Russian Empire, especially for the main one—extreme state centralization. Hence, his views of political reconstruction of the empire did not necessarily mean transforming it into the Russian Republic. It seems that a reasonable and reasoned monarch, who could turn the empire into a federal state with a wide local self-government, would totally fulfill Drahomanov’s ideas of future Russia. His enormous influence upon the pre-war Ukrainian intellectuals explains why only few of them seriously discussed an idea of Ukrainian state independence in 1917.

Radical Pessimism

This chapter describes radical pessimism as a neoliberal democratic political affect that combines of radical worldviews with a belief that change is impossible. It begins with the question of how past and present forms of political violence have shaped Mayan conceptions about the limits of democracy and of their own political agency, leading many to “sell out” for personal interest. It documents how Sampedranos retain elements of radical political imaginary that predominated in the region in the 1970s, prior to the extreme state violence of the 1980s, but that routine acts of state violence targeted at social movements that informs engagements with hostile sovereign forces, including authoritarian political parties. The chapter also describes how these political imaginaries are being reconfigured through more recent forms of politics in defense of territory against extractive industries. The conclusion reflects on the possibility of a radical organization of pessimism.