On active imagination

Ashton, Paul W.

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“…Similarly, in Singapore memes have been circulating about the use of non-biomedical treatments against coronavirus, which Babcock (2020) refers to as the 'epidemiological imagination'. This is a term first coined by Ashton (1994) in a book of the same name, that Babcock describes as "a call for broad epidemiological awareness-understanding the aetiologies and vectors of groupbased disease transmission" (2020). He suggests that the digital circulation of competing bioand other medical advice vis-à-vis coronavirus are down to alternate approaches to the 'epidemiological imagination'.…”

Section: Medical Pluralism and Global Biomedical Hegemonymentioning

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Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown

Irons¹,

Gibbon²

2021

Anthropology & Medicine

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Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing.For those who were consciously quarantined, a social science response to COVID-19 was sought at University College London through a call for posts as part of the UCL Medical Anthropology blog ; capturing the real-time observations and scholarly reflections on the unfolding pandemic situation as it reached its height across the globe. The global flow of coronavirus-both as a literal microbial agent and as an idea-has played out on the 'coronascape' (Hedges, 2020) in multiple ways since it exploded onto worldwide consciousness in early 2020. From an anthropological perspective, concerns have oscillated around a number of crucial themes, from (micro)biopolitics, governance, and sovereignty; the defence of borders from foreign bodies and post-colonial Others; a strengthening of medical pluralism and the global biomedical hegemony, and concerns over where to go from here as second-waves and the social consequences of such loom large. Such themes have often interrelated and tangoed with one another as individuals have reflected upon their significance. In this article we provide a critical overview of the first fifty-seven posts that were sent to the blog in the initial months of the pandemic; with contributors exploring the developing pandemic in over twenty countries, and with posts visited daily by over two thousand visitors from across the world during the months of the UK lockdown (March-May).

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Section: Medical Pluralism and Global Biomedical Hegemonymentioning

confidence: 99%

Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown

Irons¹,

Gibbon²

2021

Anthropology & Medicine

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Thinking up, writing down:the artistic creativity, phenomenology and neurobiology of the creative writing process

Davidson¹

2020

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Presencing with Soul

Bockler¹

2021

JABSC

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In his outline of Theory U, an awareness-based social change methodology, Scharmer (2018) depicts seven stages of presencing which he suggests can enable deeper modes of perception and knowing, to help us actualise our highest potential for social, economic, and cultural renewal. In this paper I attempt to shine a deeper light into the seven stages of presencing, by drawing from the fields of transpersonal psychology, quantum physics, and consciousness studies. In doing so, my objective is to operationalise in psychological terms key processes in presencing, such as “letting go”, letting come”, “connecting to source”, and “dialoguing with the universe”. I explore what such processes may involve and what they may demand of presencing practitioners. In the first half of the paper, I map Scharmer’s (2018) seven stages onto three core streams of consciousness which inform the human experience, reflecting on the features and qualities of each stream, and considering what psychosomatic dynamics may be at play as we enact the trajectory of the U. In depicting the three streams of consciousness, I highlight some of the challenges which presencing presents, suggesting that it is, in essence, a depth-psychological and spiritual approach. In the second half of the paper, I explore the practical and ethical implications of presencing, considering what capacities and attitudes may need to be nurtured in practitioners to support skilful facilitation and enactment of the U process. I also consider what frameworks could be deployed to facilitate safe and effective practice.

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On active imagination

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Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown

Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown

Thinking up, writing down:the artistic creativity, phenomenology and neurobiology of the creative writing process

Presencing with Soul

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