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Maps of Meaning 9: Becoming a Self
28:29  - 3 years ago
This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 9th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Theme: The individual begins his or her life as pure vulnerable potential, shielded in optimal circumstances from factors beyond control by the benevolent intervention of maternal care. If such care is provided, the developing individual is then socialized into the broader cultural world. Such socialization provides order and purpose as a buttress against chaos. True individual development, however, means movement beyond the maternal and the cultural, and voluntary personal contact with the chaotic unknown. Such contact generates wisdom, and frees the individual from possession by ideology.
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