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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20011207T200000
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URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2001-12-07-diggs/
SUMMARY:Alchemy of the Blues:  Lecture & Musical Performance
DESCRIPTION:Alchemy of the Blues:\nLecture &amp\; Musical Performance\nPres
 ented by\nStephen Diggs\, Ph.D.\nDecember 7th\, 2001\n\nThe Blues. In the 
 last 100 years no force has had greater impact on the music of the West. B
 ut that’s only the beginning of the story of the blues.  When we use Jun
 g’s psychology to look below the surface\, we find that the blues is tra
 nsforming not only our music but also our core collective cultural soul.\n
 The European obsession with science and objectivity is based on an imagine
 d split between the mind and the body\, As the cultural force of this imag
 e progressed through the years\, the soul of the West became very ill. The
  obvious conscious reason that Europeans stole Africans was to obtain free
  labor. Their unconscious motivation was probably quite different.\nA care
 ful look suggests that Africans were stolen into the unimaginable cruelty 
 of slavery in order to provide an antidote for the severe split in our cul
 tural soul. Jung’s theory of alchemy predicts that when the archetypal r
 ealities of white and black are brought together for the purpose of transf
 ormation\, the color blue will arise to join them together on their way to
  resolution in psychological sophistication. Blues music may very well be 
 the cultural force that is bringing the white mind back down to earth.\nDr
 . Diggs will describe psychologically the history of colonial America\, th
 e Civil War\, Reconstruction\, the Jazz Age\, the Rock-n-Roll revolution\,
  and the current Rap phenomenon. The stories of Dionysius and Huckleberry 
 Finn will also be used\nto illuminate this fascinating and horrific "alche
 mical tale."\nDr. Stephen Diggs received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology 
 and specialty training in Jungian psychology from Pacifica Graduate Instit
 ute. He is the founder and director of the Nysa Institute which provides t
 raining and talks on psychology and psychotherapy.  He first presented thi
 s lecture at the Delta Blues Symposium at the University of Arkansas in 19
 95. A later version appeared in Spring Journal 61. James Hillman said this
  journal article "is written with devotion and sustained deep feeling." St
 ephen plays blues guitar (poorly\, he says) and often brings it along when
  speaking.
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