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A new definition of virtual reality, what it is, and how
to bring it about. |
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Notes
I have written for psychology majors learning to become netizens in
cyberspace. Eventually it will include cyberspace topics on the principles
that govern the growth of organic virtual learning communities. |
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Introduction to the
Generational Curriculum within Community-Classroom. |
With
Dr. Diane Nahl, this is our long standing educational experiment in
collaborative learning since 1975. |
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With
Dr. Diane Nahl, this is our summary of principles and techniques written in
1979. |
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Contains
a full description of the The Hawaii Online Generational Community-Classroom,
with tables, results, case histories, and taxonomy of online skills (1997).
See also the two articles below. |
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Talk
given to a faculty group in 1997. See also article below. |
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Guest
lecture presentation in 1997 summarizing my experimental teaching efforts at
creating a "community classroom" through the cumulative use of
student reports across semesters, and thus establishing a "generational
curriculum" of cultural transmission. See also article above. |
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An article describing an earlier experiment in teaching.
It introduces the idea of "electronic socializing" as a
learning facilitator several years before the Internet came into existence
(1985-1991). |
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Two
articles in 1995 describing a still ongoing experimental course on the World
Wide Web. This is a continuation using the Web of the Generational Curriculum
Community Classroom (see above articles). |
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Analyzing Linkage Structure
in a Course-Integrated Virtual Learning Community on the World Wide Web |
INET
'95 Conference Paper -- An article with Kevin Bogan that was presented at the
World Internet Conference in Honolulu, June 1995 covering my experimental
efforts in creating an online course-integrated information literacy program. |
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Affective and Cognitive Processes While Learning the
Internet |
This
is a pre-publication copy of an article with Diane Nahl summarizing the reported
experiences of students. Three levels of Internet adaptation were discovered.
This is of relevance to information counseling and information literacy
efforts. |
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Articles and course Notes by
Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl (various topics) 1962-1985 |
Learning the Library;
Taxonomy of Skills and Errors; Cognitive Atlas; Instructions for
Self-witnessing Reports; Language Teaching Approaches; Comprehensive
Discourse Analysis; Transcript Analysis; Community-Classroom and Generational
Curriculum Approach; Daily Round Archives -- DRA Library; Ethnosemantics; and
more. |
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Introduction: The Driver's
Threefold Self | Driving Psychology Theory and Charts | Reading List and
References |
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A
book with Diane Nahl representing the first
comprehensive treatment of the societal and personal issues relating to the
way we drive. Covers the history of road rage, the new aggressive driving
laws, the psychology of driving personality makeovers, children against road
rage activities, and many exercises and tests to help drivers evaluate their
emotional intelligence behind the wheel. (2000) |
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Traffic
Psychology has come of age. Every driver becomes a traffic psychologist by
learning the skills of self-witnessing and self-modification. The result is a
successful driving persona makeover which allows you to enjoy life as a nicer
wiser person! This file covers materials from 1985 onward. |
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Socio-Cultural Methods of |
Driving
Psychology is a new field of knowledge that brings together all that we need
to know to manage the driving behavior of millions: transportation,
safety, psychology, education, communication, testing, civic activism, law
enforcement and legislation. |
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A New Paradigm for a Global
Lifelong Driver Education Curriculum |
A summary of Chapter 9 in
our book ROAD RAGE AND |
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My
various attempts to give driving psychology away to the community. This Site
presents dozens of my articles and hundreds of interviews on road rage,
driving personality makeovers, driving psychology, aggressive driving,
statistics, and legislation, including an extensive Dear DrDriving
correspondence. Leon James is DrDriving. |
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Aggressive Driving and Road Rage--Dealing With
Emotionally Impaired Drivers |
This
is the text of my congressional testimony to the US House of Representatives,
Transportation Committee, July 17, 1997. |
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Over
1,000 interviews and radio appearances I gave since 1996 following the
intense interest on road rage and aggressive driving. Some interview
answers are available online. |
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How I created DrDriving as
a media personality, and why. |
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The Private World of the
Driver: Affective, Cognitive, and Sensorimotor |
A
behavioral rationale for driving psychology. Presents a taxonomy of driving
behavior in three domains (feelings, thoughts, actions) and at three levels
of internalization (obedience to authority; social responsibility; moral
obligation). |
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Social
psychology of driving | Principles of driving psychology | Test Toolkit for
driver self-assessment | Road Rage Survey results | Quality Driving Circles
or QDCs | Law enforcement and legislation activities summary | Movie ratings
for DBB (Drivers Behaving Badly) | Cartoons and videotapes | Analyzing
Newsgroups for drivers | and more. |
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My
online road rage survey results in 2000. The article is replete with
statistical analyses and graphs on aggressive driving behaviors in relation
to age, gender, type of car, and other factors. |
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Written
with Dr. Diane Nahl and based on our book, these anti-road rage awareness
activities and exercises are to be done by parents and teachers with
their children to increase their awareness and protect them from growing up
to be the next generation of aggressive drivers. |
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This
outline is not only a summary but a hypertext tie-in with the other major
documents on driving. |
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Discussion
by our students (1999). |
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Two Concept Papers for Traffic Safety Improvement |
(1) Instituting a Program
of Lifelong Traffic Safety Training and (2) Promoting the Spread of Quality
Driving Circles (QDC) for Post-Licensing Driver Self-improvement Programs
(2006) |
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Pedestrians killed by
drivers; the "me vs. them" mentality toward pedestrians; Changing
Attitudes Toward Pedestrians; Checklist: Your Tendency to Pressure
Pedestrians; Checklist: Emotional Intelligence Towards Pedestrians; Sample
Pedestrian Self-Witnessing Report. |
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America's Passion for Cars
and The American Philosophy of Cars -- Expressed in Songs About Driving Cars
on Roads and Highways -- Spiritually Understood. |
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With
Dr. Diane Nahl, presents the implementation of the Community-Classroom
Approach within the context of an undergraduate course in social psychology.
1978 and 1981. |
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Here is a list of them with
links to articles: 1960-2004. |
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Affective,
Cognitive and Sensorimotor Domains. This is the text of a research proposal
by Diane Nahl and
Leon James to the National Science Foundation (some years ago...but I feel it
is a basic statement. |
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Chapter
7 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974). Topics include: The Transactional Model
of Talk | Language Teaching: Elements in the General Pedagogic Model of
Conversational Transactions | Educational Psycholinguistics: Teaching
as Telling--Learning as Listening | Pedagogic Ambiguities and Levels of
Insight in the Instructional Register | Authenticity and the
Teaching-Learning Process | Disagreeing: An Inauthentic Transaction |
Authentic Teaching | Antidotes to Disagreements | The Teacher Paradox | The
Authentic Teacher's Transactional Profile. |
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Theoretical Principles ||
Benefits of Community-Classroom || What Students Say || Summer Intensive
Program || Grading Techniques || Interdisciplinary Research Opportunity ||
Lecture Meetings |
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A
critique of Earl Stevick's psychodynamic/counseling approach and an
alternative in terms of transactional engineering. The Appendix presents
a workshop for teachers and psycholinguists on discourse analysis and
"color wisdom" techniques. The latter are also suitable for those
interested in computer generated discourse, intelligent software agents, and
machine-based intelligent retrieval systems. Topics
include: The Teacher's Kit Chart for the Ethno-Semantics of Discourse
| Principles Relating to the Technology of Discourse | Implementing a
Transactional Engineering Program | Exercises for Conversational Interaction,
Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Communicative Contact, and Verbal
Articulation | Enculturation/Socialization/Assimilation |
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Co-authored
with Dr. Barbara Gordon, this article was published in I. Koike et.al.
(Eds.), The Teaching of English in Japan. Tokyo: Eichosha, 1978. |
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This
brief Introduction to Sandra Savignon's book was written in 1972. I was
the first to use the expression "communicative competence" in the
literature, and it is on this account that Dr. Savignon asked me to direct
her doctoral dissertation on this topic, and this book is the outcome. |
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Written
in 1980, I take an ethnomethodologist's perspective to speculate on
futuristic language teaching. |
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This
is an empirical study on how students react to titles emotionally and
intellectually given various characteristics titles have. Titles (including
file names) are important because they are the chief organizing tools for
personal information retrieval. |
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An
article on why and how students sabotage their own self-improvement attempts
at healthier lifestyles. Explores the deep significance of resistance in
human mental development. |
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Applied Psycholinguistics in Social Psychology: An
Ethnomethodological Perspective |
A
methodological report written with Diane Nahl in 1977, but still relevant
to those who are interested in ethnomethodology and psycholinguistics,
including speech acts and conversational analysis. |
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Written
in 1975, this work sets the foundations for an ethnomethodological study of
culture using semantic methods of investigation. |
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Analyzing the Framework of Human Thought -- an
Ethnosemantic Application |
An
outline that formally defines numbers 1 through 9 as basic cognitive
structures and their application to discourse analysis. |
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Written:
1968-1982, it provides structural imprints of semantic and lexical units:
Level of Heights | Degrees of Breadth | Color Coded Vocabulary | Color Coded
Subject Headings | Triconcentric Subject Headings. |
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The Transactional Model of
Talk |
My
attempt in 1971 at an ethnomethodological description of various discourse
phenomena: Topicalization Mechanisms | Identifying Oriented to Features
| Register Modality | Structure and Function of Transactional Idioms |
Investigatory Practices of Conversationalists | Face Work and topic Oriented
Moves | and other issues. |
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Elements
in a performance model of language. Written in 1968, I present a
behavioral taxonomy of speech acts that is compatible with both behaviorism
and mentalism. Here I make a crucial new and historical distinction:
linguistic competence vs. communicative competence. |
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Typology of Radicalist
Assertions in Psychotherapy and Education |
Written in 1973, this paper
proposes a classification system for assertions -- definitional,
categorizing, descriptive, radicalist, objectifying, subjectifying, vacuous,
nonsensical. |
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Prepared
with the help of Dr. Diane Nahl,
many of my students were enabled to do transcript analysis of their own talk
using these detailed pointers. |
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The
summary of a conference paper at the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii
Psychological Association in 1982. Looks at how speech act analysis can
reveal underlying psycholinguistic functioning. Contains a taxonomy of
affective, cognitive, and behavioral language symptoms based on the spiritual psychology of Swedenborg. |
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What
happens when we apply interaction analysis to birds in an aviary? Their
exchanges reveal territoriality behaviors and sensory adaptation that are
surprisingly like those of humans. |
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Written
by student Bernadette Ching under the supervision of Leon James, 1978. |
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Coloquium
given at Indiana University in 1970. |
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TRANSACTIONAL ENGINEERING
FOR THE LANGUAGE TEACHER: THE THIRD FORCE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING |
Guest
presentation at the Alberta Teachers Association in 1976. || Talk is Spontaneous ||
Everybody
is a Foreigner/Regular || Topicalizing is an Interactive Phenomenon || Talk
is the Medium of Transactional Exchanges || Topicalizing—oriented Language
Teaching || The Three Forces in Language Teaching || The Pathological View on
the Language Learner || The Six Phases of Learning to Talk |
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Research Findings and
Foreign Language Requirements in Colleges and Universities |
A report prepared for the
Liberal Arts School Committee on the Foreign Language Requirement, University
of Illinois, Urbana, May 1968.|| TEACHING METHODS IN FL INSTRUCTION ||
THE CASE FOR FL APTITUDE || THE ATTAINMENT OF FL PROFICIENCY || THE EFFECTS
OF MOTIVATION AND INTEREST IN FL LEARNING || THE GOALS AND BENEFITS OF FL
STUDY || Recommended Changes in FL Requirements |
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APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY || Another version |
Invited contribution to a
jubilee Vol. in honor of Professor D. Kostic, Founder of the Institute for
Experimental Phonetics, Yugoslavia, August 1978. || Some Syntactic Properties
of Conversational Interaction || The Daily Round Archives Index
(Classification System). |
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Psychological Perspectives
on Individualizing Foreign Language Instruction |
A
paper prepared for the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Ky.,
April 1971. |
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Written
in 1979. || THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF LANGUAGE || THE ABSTRACTION
OF || SPONTANEITY AND RELATIONSHIPS: THE BASIC MECHANISMS OF || THE ART OF
NOT-TEACHING || Transactional engineering in the classroom || Test taking
sophistication || LITERACY VERSUS COMPOSITION |
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Transactional Engineering
Analysis and FL teaching: A Reply to Ney |
Written around 1975. The
Relationship Between Theory and Practice || The Transactional Engineering
Analysis of FL Teaching || |
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With
Diane Nahl, topics include: Territoriality | Consciousness |
Personality | Discourse Analysis | Psychodynamics | Ethnodynamics |
Astrodynamics | Genetic Culture | Relationship | and much more. |
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Chapter
10 of the above Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology. |
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The Ennead Matrix of the Threefold Self: Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor |
How
undergraduate students in social Psychology apply my ennead matrix to
their threefold-self in context with their textbook: Edward
Krupat's Psychology is Social. |
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Empiricism Married to Phenomenology: A Review of Carol
Kates, "Pragmatics and Semantics" |
Originally
published in Studies in Second Language
Acquisition, 1982, 4(2), 205-10. |
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This
is my review of George A. Miller's influential book, The Psychology of
Communication: Seven Essays. New York: Basic Books, 1967. (Originally
published in: Contemporary Psychology, vol. XIV, No. 3, March 1969.) |
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This is my book review of Psycholinguists: An Introduction to
Research and Theory by Hans Hormann (Tr. by H.H. Stern). Berlin:
Springer-Verlag New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1971. |
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Published
in 1969, this paper shows that I was the first to use the expression
"communicative competence" which has since become widespread.
Topics include: The Competence-Performance Issue | Linguistic Competence and
Communicative Competence | The Indexical Nature of Meaning Meaning: A
Three-Dimensional Analysis | Individual Differences in Communicative
Competence | Communicative Competence and Style. |
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The Affect of Symbols:
Towards the Development of a Cross-Cultural Graphic Differential |
Published
in 1969 in the International Journal of Symbology,
1969, 1, 28-52 (the
Journal then folded...),
these data prove that a semantic differential scale is possible with
pictographic opposites, instead of the usual bi-polar adjectives. To my knowledge,
no one has yet replicated this approach--but I hope it is done, as it seems
important for the field of aesthetics as well as for the use of culture free
affective measures. |
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Written
in 1983, this work introduces a new taxonomic approach to semantic analysis.
When further developed, this approach may lead to the possibility of
intelligent software agents capable of analyzing and organizing information.
Topics include: The Height and Breadth of Discourse | The Internalization of
Discourse | Low-discourse and Mid-discourse | The Synergetic Function or
High-discourse | The Affective Domain of Motives | The Cognitive Domain
of Means | The Sensorimotor Domain of Effects | Teaching Reading,
Writing, and Thinking | Therapy, Guidance and Counseling | Transcript
Analysis | Self-Examination for Personal Growth | Topicalization Behavior |
Speech Act Theory | The Format of Dictionaries | Epistemology | Song Analysis
| Bible Analysis | Genetic Culture | Religious Psychology. |
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Comprehensive Discourse
Analysis: The Levels and Qualities of Human Affairs
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Celestial
Organ (Will) | Spiritual Organ (Intellect) | Natural Organ (Emotions and
Motions) | Osgood's Semantic Space | Bloom's Semantic Taxonomy | Hexagram
Propositions | Uses in Bible Exegesis | Motivational and Sensorimotor
Mechanisms | Spiritual Self, Reflective Self, Automatic Self | Field Theory
of Social Action | The Threefold Self's 9 Zones of Life | Rational Psychology
| Enculturation Training | Simultaneous & Successive Degrees in the Uses
of Language and Speech | Dictionary of Graphic Concepts | |
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A Psycholinguistic
Classification Scheme for Discourse and Behavior |
The
Height and Breadth of Discourse || The Height and Breadth of Behavior ||
Vertical and Horizontal Interactions || Applications to Discourse
Analysis in Education || The Horizontal Dimension of Discourse |
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Social Psychological
Propositions Needed to Justify Transcript and Discourse Analysis |
Psychobiology
and Pragmatics in relation to discourse analysis. An outline for a
class handout in 1981. |
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Written
in 1977 with Diane Nahl. An ethnosemantic perspective showing that Community Cataloguing
Practices are the data of social psychology. |
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Written
in 1982 for an ESL colloquium, these slides review my longtime distinctions
between communicative intentions, communicative competence, and communicative
performance. It applies Lewin's field dynamic techniques to the
learning situation. |
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Another
early development in 1983 in which I propose a taxonomy of assertions in
talk. |
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Psychological Propositions
Needed to Justify Transcript and Discourse Analysis |
Written in 1982 it outlines the relation between speech acts, striving issues, intentions, dialog, and relationships. |
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An
original organization of topics I used for my social psychology lecture notes
in the early 1980s with the collaboration of Diane Nahl. |
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With
Diane Nahl, written in 1979. This is a bare outline of how we saw it
then. However we did not continue our studies of this approach. |
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With
Diane Nahl, written in 1981, it briefly reviews each decade from the 1950s
onward. |
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An Empirical Study of the
Development of Transactional Engineering Competence |
Chapter
8 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley, Mass.:
Newbury House, 1974) |
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Psychological and
Physiological Aspects of Foreign Language Learning |
Written
in 1970, I examine the notion of surface and base and how these new concepts
can be applied to teaching the knowledge of structure and other successful
acquisition strategies. Chapter 2 of a book now out of print:
Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970). |
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Psycholinguistic
Implications for the Teaching of Foreign Languages |
Written
in 1970, I examine the notion of language aptitude in both behavioral and
neurophysiological terms and give its implications for teaching and
learning. Chapter 1 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language
Learning (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1970). |
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Chapter
3 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Cognitive Learning and
Transactional Competence and Performance. |
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Chapter
4 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.:
Newbury House, 1970). Topics include: A Functional Approach to
Communicative Competence | Measuring Tools for Language Proficiency |
Compound-Coordinate Bilingualism | Attitudinal Measures |
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Chapter
3 of a book now out of print: Foreign Language Learning (Rowley, Mass.:
Newbury House, 1970). A detailed breakdown of the dozens of factors
that determine language acquisition and how to use them to compensate for
individual learner differences. |
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Chapter
4 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Transactional Engineering
Analysis and Language Teaching. |
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Chapter
5 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Ordinary and Specialized
Communicative Skills | The Teaching-Learning Interaction | Our Current
Educational Slogans in the Light of a New Consciousness and Their Consequences
| The Greeting of the FL Classroom | The Relevance of Research For the School
Administrator and the FL Supervisor |
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Introduction
to Foundations of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Psychological
Aspects (In Eberhard Reichmann (Ed.), The Teaching of German: Problems and
Methods. Published by the National Carl Schurz Association Teaching Aid
Project (Winchell Company, Philadelphia), 1970. Part II, Chapter 1. |
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Authentic Language Teaching
Through Culture-Simulation in the Classroom |
COMMUNITY-CLASSROOM
|| CULTURE-LEARNING IS ONTOLOGICAL || ONTOLOGY IS THE ANALYSIS OF DEPTH ||
THE THREE DISCRETE DEGREES OF DEPTH OF UTTERANCE || THE THREE DGREES OF DPTH
IN AUTHENTIC LANGUAGE TEACHING || CASE HISTORY ILLUSTRATIONS (1982) |
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A review of “Discourse
Analysis in Second Language Research" |
Published in Applied
Psycholinguistics, 1981, 2, 185-191 |
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Lecture Notes Written in
1972. |
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The Context of Foreign
Language Teaching: The Pedagogical Context |
Chapter
1 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching (Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974). Topics include: Bilingualism and
Biculturalism | How to Individualize Language Teaching | Traditional vs.
Compensatory Instruction | Educational Slogans and the Sequential Hypothesis
Initiating Change: The EBTA-mobile Trip | New Directions in FL Education |
Experiential and Cognitive Learning | Testing for Transactional Competence |
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ESL
Talk--1982. |
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Introduction
to Sandra Savignon, Toward Communicative Competence: An Experiment in Foreign
Language Teaching. Philadelphia: Center for Curriculum Development, 1972 |
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TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM IN
APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS |
Written
in 1980, a brief outline for COMMUNITY-CLASSROOM: SUMMER INTENSIVE WORK PROGRAM
FOR TEACHERS || GRADING TECHNIQUES: THE COLLECTIVE POINT || INTERDISCIPLINARY
RESEARCH |
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Chapter
9 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974) Topics include: Speech Acts | Ethnomethodology |
Applied Psycholinguistics | Discourse Analysis | The Indeterminacy of Meaning
| The Nature of Reference. |
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Book Review 1 || Book Review 2 || Book Review 3 || Book Review 4 || Book Review 5 || Book Review 6 || Book Review 7 || |
James, L. A.
(Jakobovits) and B. Gordon. The Context of Foreign Language Teaching.
Rowley. Massachusetts: Newbury House, 1974. Pp. 286. |
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An Encounter Workshop for
Language Teachers in a Bicultural Setting |
Chapter
6 of a book now out of print: The Context of Language Teaching ( Rowley,
Mass.: Newbury House, 1974)--Cultural Confrontation vs. Encounter | The
Structure of ETW Groups | The Encounter Process: A Transactional Engineering
Approach |
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Chapter
10 of an unpublished book, Workbook for the Study of
Social Psychology used by my students from 1977 to 1980.
Topics include the nature of: Psychodynamics | Sociodynamics |
Astrodynamics | Planetary and Ritualistic Registers | Contextual Frames |
Charts and Orthographs | Reputation | Involvement | Spontaneity |Community |
Society |
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"DESOCS"
is an acronym that stands for "developmental" sequence of the
Conceptual statement." A course program that divides selected materials
into unit presentation chunks over a semester period of study is an instance
of a desocs plan. Also, a single lesson when viewed from the
perspective of the teacher preparing the daily lesson plans. Includes
examples of structured pedagogic presentations of topical units. |
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Understanding Discourse:
From Ethnosemantics to Transactional Engineering |
An
outline of the four movements of discourse: (1) Ethnosemantic Outlines (the
reconstruction of taxonomic relationships in lexical and morphophonemic
displays in ordinary talk); (2) Topic Focus (the description of register
modality mechanisms underlying the structure of topicalization in
conversation and writing); (3) Display Repertoire (a characterization of
standard cultural units of behavior and a definition of context); (4)
Constitutive Exchanges (the functional analysis of discourse as a system of
exchanges of transactional moves; the systematic analysis of transcripts of
taped conversation; the description of the structure of discourse,
narratives, story-telling, and the instructional register) |
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Taxonomy of
Microdescriptions on the Daily Round: Part 1 Actual Transcript and
Analyses found |
Transcript
Analysis: |
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Diane
Nahl's attempt to create an ethnomethodological classification system for the
daily round of human activities based on our empirical investigations of
everyday behavior and talk. |
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How
to do transcript analysis and logging activities to detail the social
psychological structure of daily life. This is basic. |
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1.
On A Clear Day | 2. The Logical Song | 3. For You I'd Chase a Rainbow | 4.
Here I Am | 5. The Grand Illusion | 6. The Bond of Love | 7. Evergreen | 8.
Prisoner | 9. In My Room | 10. Watching The River Run | 11.Good Times |
12.The Woman in the Moon | 13.The Games People Play | 14.Magic Power |
15.Goodbye | 16.Greatest Love of All | 17.The Stranger | 18.The Wall |
19.Da-Da | |
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In
1976, long before hypertext and the online book, I tried to create a
non-linear sequenced book in print format for the study of social
psycholinguistics. Topics include: Dualities of Talk | Radicalist
Understanding | Reconstructing Standard Meaning | Face Work Register |
Authenticity in Discourse | Spiritual and Secular Work or Psycho-graphic
Ontology | Discourse Thinking Enactments | Ratification Process in
Conversation | Transactional Engineering Analysis | Subjectifying and Objectifying
Accounts of Life | Biography |
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The Empirical Investigation of Conversation: The Closing
Problem |
Deals
with the ethnomethodological problem of how conversations are brought to an
end. |
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Discourse thinking Accounts: A Transactional Model for
the Study of Mental Life |
Topics
include: Educational psycholinguistics | Language and Thought | The Social
Concept of a Person | Speech Community | Teaching as Conversation | Thought
Preoccupations on the Daily round |
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This
is a Social Psychology Textbook for Community-Classroom used by my students
in the early 1980s. It is also a basic outline and justification of the New
Community-Classroom of the future. |
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With
Diane Nahl. Exploring the relationship between records of experience
and archival collections. |
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Self-witnessing
of one's body symptoms with the Medical Daily Round Inventory using a case
history approach: "Nothing less than the daily round approach can
offer a methodology sufficiently situational and actual, to operationalize
the medical assessment schema." |
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Chapter
7 of a Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology used by my
community-classroom in 1976. |
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This is my 1978 invited contribution to a jubilee Vol. in honor
of Dr. D. Kostic, Founder of the Institute for Experimental Phonetics,
Yugoslavia, August 1978. Originally
published in: Zbornik Radova O Govoru I Jezicu (Commemorative
Vol. in honor of D. Kostic) Beograd, Yugoslavia: Institute of Experimental
Phonetics, 1979. Topics include: Face Work | Community
Cataloguing Practices (CCPs) | Topicalization Dynamics | Sequencing Devices |
Boundary Limits | Structural, Bracketed and Functional Units | Relationship
History | and other ethnomethodological concepts relating to discourse and
language use as evolved from my own work. |
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Chapter
8 of a Workbook for the Study of
Social Psychology. Topics include: Features of the
New Paradigm: Ethnosemantics, Ethogeny, and Ethnomethodology | Ethnosemantics
and Social Psychology | The Hexagram of Sudden Memory | A Glossary of Terms
in Ethnosemantics | The Universal Basis of Behavior | The Investigation of
Community Cataloguing Practices (CCPs) |
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Additional
sections from the Workbook for the Study of Social Psychology (see above
entry). Topics include: Ethnodynamics of Communication Network |
Situational Context of Quantitative Assessment | Community Archives | Medical
Daily Round |
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This
is the outline of the CCP Series in the above Workbook for the Study of
Social Psychology. |
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Community Cataloguing
Practices (CCPs) |
Tracing
Intellectual Influences | Developmental Archives | Historicizing Assertions |
Professionalizing Ideological Arguments | The Conspiracy of the Gurus |
Transcending Communication Theory | and more. |
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Continuation
of the above entry. New Paradigm in Social Psychology: Taking the
Best of Both. |
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Continuation
of the above entry. The definitional scheme that unites social
psychology and ethnosemantics, creating an applied ethnomethodological
socio-psycholinguistics based on self-witnessing of community-cataloguing
practices. See also the Principles of Ethnosemantics
listed above. |
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Table
of Contents of Overall CCP Series | The Desocs | Topic Glossary | Notes on
the Geometry of Understanding | Notes on Ethnosemantics (ES) |
Introductory Notes to Ethnosemantics | Anecdotes | Annotation Techniques | Understanding
Discourse: From Ethnosemantics to Transactional Engineering | Notes on
Esnosys | The Cube of Understanding | The 575 Diadic Interactions | Notes on
ES-PROBES | Management Science |
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Brief
notes in several small files. |
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Another
chapter section of the Workbook for the Study of
Social Psychology. Topics include: Personal Variation
Within Standardized Community Practices | Identification of the Functional
Units of the Daily Round. |
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The
difference between explicit and implicit categorizations and the underlying
mechanisms of community accounting practices. |
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Steinberg, Danny D. and
Leon A. James (eds.), Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy,
Linguistics and Psychology, Cambridge UP., 1971, x, 603pp |
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Originally
published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Monograph
Supplement, 1968, 9, 30-32. A review of Robert Zajonc's well known
hypothesis, in which I present my own alternative explanation in terms
of semantic satiation and semantic generation--two concepts from my 1962
doctoral dissertation at McGill University. |
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Originally
published in the Journal of Special Education, 1967, 2, 35-44. Proposes
the use of semantic satiation and generation as tools for behavioral
modification and special education. |
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This
is my 1967 presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association and was
never published. It is of technical interest to those studying the
phenomenon of semantic satiation. |
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My
Ph.D. Dissertation at McGill University, 1962. |
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Rhetoric and Stylistics:
Some Basic Issues in the Analysis of Discourse |
Originally
published in College Composition and Communication, 1969, 20, 314-28.
Topics include: Utterances as Indexical Expressions | Objectifying
Style and Quality of Discourse | Creative Sequencing |
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Implications of Recent Psycholinguistic
Developments for the teaching of a Second Language || Another version here |
Paper delivered to the 1968
convention of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) in
San Antonio, Texas, March 9, 1968. Deals with The Acquistion of Meaning and
Syntax. |
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Some Potential Uses of the
Cross-cultural Atlas of Affective Meanings |
Presented
at the XI Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Mexico, 1967. Also
reprinted in: W.W. Lambert and Rita Weisbrod (Eds.), Comparative Perspectives
on Social Psychology. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971. Describes a method
of componential analysis for cross-cultural hypothesis testing with the
Semantic Differential Atlas. |
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Genetic Culture: The Primacy
of the Affective over the Cognitive |
With
Diane Nahl. The Swedenborgian perspective that clarifies this all
important relationship in human behavior. Integrated with our research
in educational psycholinguistics and ethnosemantics. |
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Radicalist Empiricism: The
Universal Modes of Enactment in Human Experience |
Written in 1974, this is a
Self-Witnessing Account of the Discovery of Sudden Memory and My
Interpretation of Its Significance for the Human Race. Topics
include: Awakening and Re-awakening || Oscillation of
Awareness || Experiment 1: Mere Witnessing Doing Nothing ||
Experiment 2: Observing the Process of Experiential Contraction
|| Navigational Performances || Reflective Awareness:
Distinction Between Consciousness and Experiencing ||
Self-Actualizing || Thinking as a Scanning Operation
|| Modes of Captivity Through the Daily Schedule ||
Memory and Social Identity || The Register of Captivity ||
The Consequences of the Daily Schedule: Things We Forget ||
Standardized Imaginings and the Reconstruction of Record ||
Sudden Memory: A New Discovery || Epilogue One: Rex's
Wisdom || Epilogue Two: the Mode of Enactment in the Radicalist
Register || Afterword |
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Empirical Metaphysics and
Physics: |
Written
in 1971, and continued with the article below. Topics include:
The Metaphysics of Physics | The Conceptual Order in Physics and Empirical
Metaphysics | Non-empirical Accounts |The Metaphysics of Nothingness |
Empirical Metaphysics | Ordinary and Special Consensus. |
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Essays on Nothing and
Everything-- |
Written
in 1973 and related to the article above. Topics include: Of
metaphysical interest | Of academic interest | Of artistic interest |
Of ethical interest | Definition of Radicalism | Radicalist and Progressivist
Logic | Radicalism in psychotherapy | Radicalism in education |
Nonsensical assertions
| Subjectifying assertions | Objectifying assertions | Radicalist assertions
| Descriptive Assertions | Categorizing assertions | Definitional assertions. |
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Written
in 1983 this article reviews the learning principles that apply to library
use: Search Behavior and the Conditions of Learning | Motivation
| Responding | The Concept of Reinforcement in the Library | Managing
the Library's Reinforcement Environment | Token Economy System in the Library
| The Concept of Punishment in the Library | Library Searching: A
Punishing Experience at First | The Educative Function of Punishment in
the Library | External and Internal Restraints | Learned Helplessness in the
Library | Teaching Self-regulation in the Library |
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Teaching the Analysis of
Titles: Dependent and Independent Variables in Research Articles |
Written in 1986 with Diane
Nahl, this article presents a discovery we made about titles of experimental
articles in the journal literature, namely, that they embody the design of
the experiment: Titles of Experimental Reports in the Social Sciences
| Titles from the Physical and Biochemical Sciences | Teaching the
Analysis of Titles |
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A taxonomy of instructional
objectives for search behavior was used to develop a quiz that measures
skills in three domains of search behavior (affective, cognitive,
sensorimotor) at three levels of competence (basic, intermediate, advanced).
A computer-based education system known as PLATO was used to test an online
interactive measure of information searching competence on three populations
of university students (1990). |
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A theoretical scheme
classifies user behavior into three domains of library activity—affective,
cognitive, and psychomotor—and into three levels of learning—orientation,
interaction, and internalization. Examples are given of library skills and
errors in each of nine major classes. Applications are suggested in the areas
of library orientation and instruction, testing and diagnostics, reference,
signs, and guides. (1987) |
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Written by Diane Nahl in
1978. A Review of H.A. Simon, The Shape of Automation for Men and Management,
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. |
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Written in 1978. || The
Daily Round Archives: Foundations for the Natural History of Community Life
|| Ethno-Semantics || Coded Wisdom || The Hexagram of Semantic Evolution ||
Language Teaching Pedagogy || |
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Content analysis of the
inner meaning of popular songs. From our Social Psychology classes in 1981. |
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Directory of scanned notes
(very rough--not cleaned up). |
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Discussion by our students
(1999). |
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Discussion by our students
(1999). |
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Discussion by our students
(1998). |
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Discussion by our students
(1998). |
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Human Catheads. Pets loss
psychology. Cats in the News. |
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Articles and course Notes |
Student Cognitive Atlas DRA
(1978) | Measuring Information Searching Competence (1990) | Learning the
Library: Taxonomy of Skills and Errors (1987) | Authentic language teaching
through culture-simulation in the classroom (1982) | Course Proposal on
Psycholinguistics and Ethnosemantics (1976) | Community Classroom: List of
Developments (1975 - 1982) | DRA Librarian Diane Nahl (1979) | A Plan for an
Online Reference Service in an Academic Library (1982) | Taxonomy of Library
Skills and errors from discourse analysis of search protocols (1984) | and
more.... |
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This is a lifelong project of my attempt to integrate
Swedenborg into modern psychology. The result is scientific
dualism--the future of psychology. I also use the phrase "Theistic
Psychology" in contrast to "non-theistic" psychology. The
glossary contains hundreds of entries, each linked to a full text article. |
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Written
in 1982, I discuss how the human mind is described in Swedenborg's Rational
Psychology, in particular, the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor
domains. |
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Theological and Psychological Aspects of Mental Health: The Marriage of
Good and Truth |
Explores
the significance of Swedenborg's spiritual psychology for scientific,
behavioral, and clinical psychology and its implications for the philosophy
of science and history of psychology. Topics: Mental Health and the
Spiritual | Substantive Dualism and Spiritual Influx | Psycho-Spiritual
Aspects of Mental Health | Levels of Transcendence: The Breadth and Height of
the Self | Biological Theology | Application 1: Modern Psychological Concepts
Corresponding to Swedenborg's Threefold Nomenclature | Application 2: Mental
Health Symptoms Mapped unto Swedenborg's Nomenclature | Symbolism in Dreams
and Myths |
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Rational
Psychology | Heavenly Existence | Spiritual Psychobiology | Death and After
Life | The Second Death | The Ten Plagues and Guidepost to Therapists | The
Bible as a Handbook of Psychobiology | The Faces of Jehovah = Divine Good |
Phases of Regeneration | Incarnation and the Trinity from Eternity |
Education of the Will | Bible Correspondences |
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Swedenborg’s Science of
Correspondences: An Empirical Method for the Psychology of Religion
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Psychology of Religion:
Strong and Weak Versions | Swedenborg’s Religious Behaviorism | Science
of Correspondences | Research issues | Dream Analysis |
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A brief outline and a chart
(1987). |
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Bible Study Charts for
Correspondences and Discourse Analysis |
Tri-concentric
circles | Temptations | Names and Places | Symbolism | Cross-denominational
and cross-religious concepts | Ten Commandments | Graphic Bible concordance |
Correspondences |
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Written in 1983 and beginning to show Swedenborg's influence on our thinking. The Height and Breadth of Discourse | The Height and Breadth of Behavior | Vertical and Horizontal Interactions | Applications to Discourse Analysis in Education | The Horizontal dimension of Discourse |
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Ditto. Written in 1984. An
application of the ennead structures in the analysis of everyday discourse
behavior in academia. |
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My
Various Articles on the Affective-Cognitive Connection |
A Conceptual Framework for Explaining Information Behavior || Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive || The Will and Understanding || The Heart and Lungs || Good and Truth || Religious Behaviorism || Religious Psychology || Comprehensive Discourse Analysis and Its Applications || Driving Behavior || Phases of Development in Becoming Internet Literate || In Psychotherapy || The Threefold Self || Symbols and Drawings || Topical Organization in Social Psychology || Titles of Articles || Resistance to Health Behaviors || Language Teaching || Song Analysis || Genetic Culture || Cross-cultural Atlas of Affective Meanings || Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism || The Genes of Consciousness |
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Simultaneous and Successive
Degrees in the Uses of Language and Speech |
Ditto. Written in 1982.
Discourse Analysis | Psycho Linguistics | Cataloguing Theory (Library
Science) | Bibliographic Instruction | Cognitive Problem Solving |
Self-Instruction |
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Religious Psychology or Theistic Psychology: |
Written
in 1984 with Diane Nahl. Describes our insights in studying Swedenborg
and applying his ideas to modern psychology. Topics include: The
External and Internal Church | Developmental phases Confirmation Theory
| History of the Churches on Earth | The Positive Bias | The Subject
Matter of the Word | Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive |
Twenty Propositions of Religious Psychology | The Marriage of the Will and
the Understanding | Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive |
Studying the Psychology of Inner Life| The Content and Dynamics of Inner Life
| Religious Affections are Inherited | Religious Self-Inspection |
Discovering the Steps of Regeneration through Microdescriptions of our Inner
Life | The Threefold Order of the World and of Heaven | The Ninefold Self and
the Ninefold Word | The Simple but Basic States of Our Religion in Childhood
| The Psychology of Temptations |
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Spiritual Geography: The Horizontal and Vertical Communities of
our Dual Citizenship |
Part
2 of the above. Topics include: The Threefold Organization
of Mind and Spirit || What's in a Daydream ||
Repentance, Change and Purification || Successive and
Simultaneous Degrees: The Growth of the Self || The Ennead Matrix
or Nine Zones of Life or Self || The Method of Reflection
|| The Method of Spiritual Geography || The Regions of the
Mind The Interior Meaning of "Thomas" or, The Old Church State
Within Us || Resistance to the Development of the Church Within
Us || The Clinical Issues in Religious Psychology |
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The
relation between cyberspace and the spiritual world viewed as virtual
reality. |
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The Coming Swedenborgian Revolution in the Social
Sciences and Humanities |
Written
for Logos Winter 1982 issue, it shows how Swedenborg's Triune Model of the
Universe coincides perfectly with modern psychology's three domains of
behavior: affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor--in that order of
hierarchical precedence or control. |
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Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism as a Basis
for the Science of Human Behavior |
Swedenborg's
Behaviorism of Affective, Cognitive, and Sensorimotor Domains | Scientific
Psychology of Religion | Swedenborg's Theistic Psychology | Science
Reborn--The New Dualism in Science |
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Two Perspectives on
Swedenborg's Writings: Secular and Religious |
Two
articles that examine whether God, miracles, and life after death can be
scientifically meaningful concepts. It also looks at contemporary New
Church thought on science and religion, and especially religious oriented
science education in the New Church mentality. Both articles were published
in New Church Life. |
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Overcoming Objections to
Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism |
Contents: Introduction |
Scientific Revelations | Spiritual Revelations | How Swedenborg Has Been
Portrayed | Evaluating Swedenborg | Resistance to Swedenborg | Is Swedenborg's
Dualism Scientific? | The Six Minimal Premises of Dualist Science | 1. The
existence of the dual sun | 2. The existence of vertical degrees | 3. The
existence of influx | 4. The existence of vertical community | 5. No function
without substance or the dualist methodology | 6. All phenomena are human |
Extracting Dualist Concepts From Swedenborg's Writings | It is Not Known
Revealed | Scientific Puzzles For Dualist Science | Conclusion | References |
Related Articles |
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The Fourteen Scientific
Fallacies in Swedenborg's AC 5084: Implications for Science Education |
A
Swedenborgian perspective on teaching dualist science. Topics include
fallacies in relation to: Mind-Body Relation | Life After Death | Atoms
| Genes | Marriage | Competitiveness | Vacuum | and Angels. |
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I
created these tables and charts in 1982 during my first study of Swedenborg's
Writings. The diagrams and charts made his ideas much clearer to grasp and
showed the absolute rationality of his scientific account: Three
Levels of the Affective, Cognitive, Sensorimotor Mind | Affective awareness |
Affective responding | Domains and Levels of awareness | Natural, Rational,
Spiritual, Celestial levels of the mind. |
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Theistic Science |
This
is the introduction and overview to the Swedenborg Glossary by Leon James.
Topics include: Why Theistic Science is the Future of Science |
Theistic Psychology Methodology | Why the Trinity is a Rational Necessity
| Illustrative List of Scientific Revelations | Difference Between
Religion and Theistic Psychology | The Unity of Theistic Science | The Three
Layers in Scientific Revelations | Diagram 1 The Trigrammatic Construction of
the Universe | Diagram 2 The Three Compositions and Layers of the
Universe | Diagram 3 The Three Levels of Science | Diagram 4 The Three Divine
Aspects | Diagram 5 The Male Mind and the Female Mind (part 1) | Diagram 6
The Male Mind and the Female Mind (part 2) | Diagram 7 The Trigrammatic Structure
in Parallel Series | Diagram 8 The Ennead of Levels and Substances:
Celestial, Spiritual, Natural | Diagram 9 Trinitarian Composition of God in
Theistic Psychology |
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Swedenborg's
notion of human development explored with charts and diagrams. |
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A Man of the Field: |
Vol. 1: Reformation--The
Struggle Against Nonduality Vol. 2: Regeneration--Religious Disciplines for
Forming the New Church Mind |
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Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg:
Three Steps in Rational Spirituality |
Defines three steps in
spiritual development: Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial thinking, feeling,
or consciousness. |
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This is a 100-item multiple-choice
test of rational spirituality as defined in the Moses book just above. Topics
include: What is heaven and hell. What happens when we die. What
are spirits and can we communicate with them. What are angels and
devils and do they affect us. Why God allows evil in the world.
What is sin, rebirth, reformation, regeneration, and salvation. What is the
importance and role of revelation. Can there be a science of God from God
about God. What is love, good, truth, and wisdom. What is
spiritual enlightenment and higher consciousness. What is the relation
between the finite and infinite. What is the relation between the
natural and spiritual or supernatural. Are miracles real. |
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This city in Pennsylvania
is the birthplace of the idea that the Writings of Swedenborg are the Word of
the Second Coming. This is a report of my first visit there in January 2003. |
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Teaching the Scientifics of
the Internal Sense of the Writings. 1. By the Substitution Technique 2.
By Diagramming
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Spiritual Psychology: |
The method of
self-witnessing applied to regeneration as defined in the Writings of
Swedenborg. |
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Scientific Dualism and
Theistic Psychology; The Content of Spiritual Psychology; Evidence and Corroboration
of the Writings of Swedenborg; Empirical Observations; Historical Evidence;
Body-Mind Parallelism; Objective Self-witnessing of Becoming Spiritually
Enlightened; Two Fundamental Principles of Spiritual Psychology |
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Teaching scientific dualism
requires a new instructional approach that uses integrated concepts in which
the chain of causation from the spiritual Sun to the natural sun is defined
as part of the concept being taught. |
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Can There Be a Scientific Proof that the Threefold
Word |
A new perspective on
scientific dualism based on the idea of scientific revelations given in
Sacred Scripture as True Science. Do they meet scientific criteria? |
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The
meaning of unity in marriage according to the Book Conjugial Love by Emanuel
Swedenborg |
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Subduing The External Man.
The Unregenerate Husband. The surrendered wife vs. the
surrendered husband. Rule 1: The Regeneration Discipline Of Acting From
The Wife. Giving Up Male Prerogatives As Contrary To Conjugial
Unity. The Equity Model Versus The Unity Model Of Marriage. The
Spiritual Discipline Of Sweetheart Rituals. Conjugial Intimacy Disciplines.
Overcoming Threats To Sweetheart Rituals. How To Avoid Turning Cold Against
The Wife. Spiritual Psychobiology Of The Conjoint Self. The
Regeneration Discipline Of Conjugial Massage. The Regeneration
Discipline of Heaven On Wheels. The spiritual discipline of shopping
together. Wife takes precedence over the children. The spiritual
discipline of metanoid television watching. Summary of
anti-absorption techniques |
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A Spiritual Practice for
Achieving Unity | Prologue | Feminizing the Marriage is Sanctifying It | The
Doctrine of the Wife in a Nutshell | Heresies Regarding the Husband's Wisdom
| The Role of the Wife in the Husband's Wisdom | The Basic Map for Understanding
Regeneration of Marriage (Matrix 1) | Comments by Leon James (2001) on Rev.
Erik Sandström, Sr.'s Article (1997) on Feminine Wisdom in New Church Life
and a Reprinted Reaction by Linda Simonetti Odhner (1997) | Email
Exchange on the Doctrine of the Wife |
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A briefer statement written
for a collection of essays. Covers: | Menís Resistance to Conjugial
Love | Conjugial Commandments | Commitment
to Conjugial Unity | The Four-Step Conjoining Process | Feminizing the
Marriage is Sanctifying It | Appendix:
Inventory of Confessions |
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A portion of Vol. 11 of
Theistic Psychology on Marriage. | The Surrendered Wife vs. the Surrendered
Husband | The Surrendered Husband is The Ideal Elevated Man | The
Self-Entrapment of Male Intelligence | Who Is Going To Do The Bills? | The
Spiritual Physiology of Marriage | Her Heaven, Not His | Divine Truth Within
Which Is Divine Love | Is The Surrendered Husband Feminized | The Conjoint
Mind Is Both Masculine And Feminine | The Wife's Role in Heavenly Marriages |
The Wife is a Form of the Highest Human Wisdom | Spiritual Psychobiology of
Marriage | The Circle of Life In Marriage | Two Phases of Achieving Unity in
Marriage |
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List of Documents by Leon
James for the Swedenborg Library Reserve Shelf |
With links to the
documents. (2003) |
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The Perizonius Thesis:
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Our Thinking and Willing Affects the Entire Human Race. The Special Role of Science in the Salvation of Humankind. The Mechanism by Which the Race is Conjoined to the Lord. Rational Consciousness and the Successive Levels of Regeneration. The Greatest of All Uses (2003) |
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The Substitution Technique:
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Demonstrating the
substitution of "the Writings" for "the Word" in the text
of the Writings -- with remarkable results. (2003) |
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What is the religious view
on the holocaust? | Are the Writings of Swedenborg anti-semitic? | What is a
rational answer to why an Omnipotent God of Love allows evil in this world? |
The psychobiology of heaven and hell. (2003) |
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First published in 2004 and
continually updated and expanded. Vol. 1 Introduction to Theistic Psychology
| Vol. 2 Q&A on Theistic Psychology | Vol. 3 Levels of Thinking About
Theistic Psychology | Vol. 4 Derivation and Function of Scientific Revelations
| Vol. 5 Research Methods in Theistic Psychology | Vol. 6 Personality Theory
| Vol. 7 Character Reformation | Vol. 8 Learning and Cognition | Vol. 9
Spiritual Development | Vol. 10 Health Behaviors | Vol. 11 The Marriage
Relationship | Vol. 12 The Heavenly and Hellish Traits | Vol. 13 Religious
Psychology | Vol. 14 Prayer as Revelation from God | Vol. 15 Rational Faith
and Charity | Vol. 16. Religious Mysticism | Vol. 17 Religious Movements |
Vol. 18 Index to All Sections, Subject Index, Selections, Collateral Links,
and Readings |
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I'm Yours More and More: see also |
Unity Through
Differentiation and Reciprocity | Self-witnessing and the Threefold Self |
Three Levels of Unity in Gender Relationship | Unity Through Reciprocity and
Differentiation | Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction | Chart
of the Three Models in Gender Relations | Behavioral Indicators of One's
Relationship Model | and more. (2004) |
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This is a demonstration of
how one can extract scientific knowledge from the hidden sense of the Old
Testament by applying the code of correspondences revealed in the Writings of
Swedenborg. (2004) |
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Preface and Diagram of the
Foundations of |
Showing the relationship
between theistic psychology, the scientific meaning of Sacred Scripture
as Divine Speech, and the Writings of Swedenborg. |
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Reports by students taking
my seminar on rational vs. mystical spirituality, showing their reactions to
the idea of introducing God into psychology, and their research on the
importance of God as a topic in American society. |
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A classic distinction first
proposed by Swedenborg and the spiritual consequences of each type. They
represent developmental steps every individual takes along the road to
spiritual development. |
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Swedenborg's Description of
How We Are |
Quotations from several
passages where these reports are given, along with my commentaries on their
meaning for theistic psychology. |
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A section of Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. |
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A section of the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. This is a selection from Chapter 8, "How We Learn and Develop
Rationality." Topics include: Degrees of Truth and Levels of Mind
| Literacy: The Universal Hierarchy of Basic Skills | Religious
Curriculum | Individual Growth Recapitulates History and Evolution. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. This is Chapter 6 Personality Theory. Topics include: The Conscious
Self and Its Development | Woman Built From the Man's Rib | The Rebirth of
the Fallen Proprium or Self | Innocence and the Choice of Salvation | The
Birth of the Self in Infants | The Self in Childhood and Adolescence | The
Self or Proprium in Adulthood | Death of Self and Rebirth of the New Proprium
| The State of Reformation Begins Regeneration |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Ethics of Science and Religion | Theistic Psychologists and Morality
| Theistic Psychology and Media Content | Censorship and Theistic
Psychologists | Theistic Psychologists View on War, Death Penalty, Abortion. |
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What’s the difference
between religion |
Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Sacred Scripture in the literal sense is for religion, but in its
correspondential sense, it is theistic psychology. Such is the character of
all Divine Speech. Applying the method of correspondences revealed in the
Writings of Swedenborg gives anyone access to the universal content of Sacred
Scripture, regardless of religion or culture. This is because the literal
historical and cultural references vanish as we focus in on their scientific
correspondences. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. The mind as a spiritual organ | The spiritual body | The primacy of
the affective | Affective -- cognitive integration. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Individual biography recapitulates cultural history and biological
evolution. All three constitute major topics of Sacred Scripture as Divine
Speech, when analyzed in a way to extract their underlying universal
scientific meaning. Specific methods of extraction have been revealed in the
Writings of Swedenborg. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. What’s the difference between religion and theistic psychology?
| ..What about evil, sin, hell, devil, and heaven in relation to theistic
psychology?| .. Is theistic science really science? ..Criteria for Atheistic
Psychology as Science ..Criteria for Theistic Psychology as Science ..Can an
atheist be an expert in theistic science?.| Who is to tell us what are good
traits and what evil? | .. The spiritual world and the afterlife—how can that
be researched? | .. Is it possible that Swedenborg made it all up or was
delusional? | .. What's the relation between the body, the mind, and the
spiritual world? | .. Theoretical Implications of God's Omnipotence,
Omniscience, and Omnipresence| .. What is God's Role in the Evolution of the
Human Race | .. Divine Truth in relation to scientific revelations in
theistic psychology?| .. How is the mind or consciousness related to the
spiritual world? | .. What do surveys show about beliefs in God, heaven,
hell, miracles, afterlife? | ..What About Creationism and evolution?| ..What
is "Substantive Dualism" in theistic psychology? | ..What is
Applied Theistic Psychology?| ..Theistic Psychology vs. Mysticism, Spiritism,
Psychic Research? | ..How is Spiritual Psychology Related to Theistic Psychology?
| ..How Can You Do Research on God in Psychology?.| The As-of Self Revealed
to Humankind| ..Swedenborg's Rational Psychology | ..In What Style did
Swedenborg Write the Writings? | . Christian Psychology vs. Theistic
Psychology.| The Inner Scientific Sense of Divine Speech| ..Where can I read
Swedenborg’s Writings and collateral works? |
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Selections from Student
Reports On Douglas Taylor “A Spirituality that Makes Sense” |
From my Seminar on Rational
vs. Mystical Spirituality. Taylor's book is entirely from the perspective of
Swedenborg's Writings. The principle thesis is that our afterlife of
immortality depends on the quality of our rational understanding of God.
Hence we need the "rational faith" that is revealed in the
Writings. Taylor affirms that the Writings are the Word of God, the third
collection of Western revelations, along with the Old and New Testaments.
Taylor uses the term "the Threefold Word" to refer to a synthetic
unity between these three collections of Sacred Scripture. Students in
psychology read the book, discussed it in class, and wrote reviews. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Diagrams drawn by N.C. Burnham. Includes: The Mind's Three
Discrete Degrees | The Mind's Two Organs--Will and Understanding |
Three Degrees of Mind--Celestial, Spiritual, Natural | Internal and
External Within Each Degree of Mind | Corresponding Degrees--Natural
and Spiritual Minds | Anatomy of the Mind at Birth | Altruism or
the Love of Uses | The Method of Self-witnessing | The
Genuine Human Shape and Form | Life in the Embry | The
Growth of the Mind | The Mind's Growth During Childhood |
The Role of the Unconscious Spiritual Mind | Regeneration
of the Adult Mind | The Adult Unregenerate Hellish Mind |
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Theoretical Implications of
God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence |
Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. This brief section explores the logical implications of God's
infinity. For instance, there can be only one infinity, hence only one
God. Or, God cannot be a part of the physical universe since God created it
and existed prior to the physical world. Also, God must be a Divine Human or
else we could not love each other through rational understanding of each
other. God must therefore be infinitely Human, infinitely Rational, and
infinitely Loving or All Good. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Swedenborg's dualism is "substantive" because he
describes the spiritual world as a sphere of rational ether created by the
Spiritual Sun around itself. The spiritual world is permeated by the
spiritual light and spiritual heat emanating from this Sun. Human minds live
in this sphere which can also be called the mental world. The spiritual light
is a substance that enters the understanding (cognitive organ), while
spiritual heat is received by the will (affective organ). Hence it is that
the mind is constructed of a different substance than the matter out of which
the physical body is made. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. How Can You Do Research on God in Psychology? | The As-of Self
Revealed to Humankind | Struggle Between the Natural and the Spiritual Mind |
As-of Self Principles of Living: The Power of Self-Regulation | Human
Freedom--Heavenly and Hellish | The Necessity of Putting up the Effort As-of
Self | Compelling Oneself to Do Good |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. Overt miracles constitutes physical proof of God's intervention. In
the modern scientific mind of our era, physical proof of God would reduce our
ability to rationally understand God. Our afterlife is in the spiritual world
where the quality of life depends on one's rational understanding of God and
ourselves. Overt miracles on earth would therefore injure our future life.
However, covert or ambiguous miracles do occur regularly since it takes
rational understanding to recognize them as miracles. |
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Selection from the book Theistic Psychology (2004) available
online. This section explores CL 56 which describes the wisdom of wives and
how conjugial husbands prefer to think and act according to the wife's wisdom
more than to think and act from their own wisdom regarding matters of their
relationship and interaction style. |
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An article submitted to New
Philosophy 2005. Summarizes and describes how the 18-Vol. work is being
written. |
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A Section from Theistic
Psychology with diagrams on mental biology -- natural hells and heavens,
spiritual heavens and hells, economics of immortality, influx from the
Spiritual Sun, community, personality, ruling love, unconscious, conscious,
and other concepts. |
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The content of Divine
Speech in Sacred Scripture is analyzed through the series of descending
correspondences identifying the topics that God is talking about to the human
race. |
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Theistic Psychology =
eternity = heaven vs. hell = rational vs. irrational =
human) = good and truth = God the Divine Human |
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Theistic Psychology: |
Summary overview of
"The Making of Theistic Psychology." |
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This is a Selection from
Vol. 5 Research Methods in Theistic Psychology. Extractive and Predictive
Research. Theistic psychology is based on three empirical methodologies-- |
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TOGETHER IN ETERNITY -- The
Unity Model of Marriage -- Every Day I'm Yours More and More | Introduction:
Till Death Do Us Part or Till the End of Eternity | Mental Anatomy and the
Individual's Threefold Self 2.1 Mental Anatomy of Women and Men | Three
Levels of Unity in the Marriage Relationship | Unity Through Reciprocity and
Differentiation | Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Affective Conjunction |
Sexuality: Love of the Sex vs. Love of One of the Sex | Unity Model in Marriage:
Ennead Chart of Growth Steps | Male Dominance Model of Marriage | Sexual
Blackmail? | Mental Abuse? |Developing mental intimacy with one's wife? | The
Spiritual Dimension to the Unity Model | Making Field Observations | Tables
and Charts |
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Ten Rational Conclusions
Derived From the Proposition That God Exists |
1. God is a Person, at once
Divine and Human. 2. God’s Omnipotence Must Control Every Event. 3. God is
Perfect in Love and Rationality. 4. There are Two Worlds, One in Time-Space,
the Other in Eternity. 5. Humans are Born Dual Citizens, In Time and in
Eternity. 6. The Eternity of the Afterlife is Our Mental World Now. 7. We Are
Born With Heaven and Hell in Our Mind. 8. Heaven is a State of Marriage
Between Soul Mates. 9. Divine Speech as Sacred Scripture Produces
Consciousness and Enlightenment. 10. Salvation, Liberation, Peace, and Wisdom
Are Attained By Spiritual Discipline |
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Level 1 Consciousness
(Infancy) – Sensuous Incorporation || Level 2 Consciousness (Childhood) –
Sensuous Absorption || Level 3 Consciousness (Adolescence) – Sensuous
Belonging || The Inversion || Level 4 Consciousness (Young Adulthood) –
Rational Acknowledgment of God || Level 5 Consciousness (Adulthood) –
Rational Conjunction with God || Level 6 Consciousness (Old Age) – Rational Love
of God |
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Recognizing Our Dual Existence
|| The Mental World is the World of Eternity || Our Life in Eternity || Why
We Need Sacred Scripture || The Hidden Spiritual Sense of Sacred Scripture ||
Why We Need Theistic Psychology || The New Evolution in Rational
Consciousness of God |
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Selections From |
A Correspondence On The
Essence Of The Latin Word And The Divinity Of The Doctrine Of The
Church Rev. Ernst Pfeiffer and Rev. Theo Pitcairn To Rev. Albert
Bjorck, 1931 |
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Directory of Articles and Books by Leon James on
Mirror Site |
This is a more user
friendly layout by Dr. Ian Thompson who maintains the www.TheisticPsychology.org Web site |
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Extracting Theistic
Psychology From Sacred Scripture: |
Parallel analysis comparing
the literal sense with the spiritual sense which gives the content of
theistic psychology. |
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This is a portion of the
Doctrine of the Wife for Husbands (DOW) available at: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic/ch11.htm#confess-lj
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Quotations from
Swedenborg's book Conjugial Love (1768) and a summary showing how they
agree with the Doctrine of the Wife -- see The Marriage Relationship and
The Doctrine of the Wife Volume 11 of Theistic Psychology
at: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic/ch11.htm
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Section 1.1.4.1.1 in Volume
1. Introduction to Theistic Psychology. While Christmas is a religious
celebration, the event it celebrates is real, historical, biological,
universal, and therefore, scientific. 2007/ |
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Mental Anatomy and the
Individual's Threefold Self: Affective, Cognitive, and Sensorimotor
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Fall 2007. Correspondence
between physical and mental organs. |
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Sacred Scripture: The Sole
Source of Scientific Knowledge About God |
Theistic psychology is the
correspondential sense of all Sacred Scripture past, present, and future. The
same methodology underlies all known sacred texts today. The history of
sacred texts recapitulate the steps of evolution in civilization and the steps
of individual spiritual development. 2007 |
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A summary statement of
theistic psychology. 2007 |
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Fall 2007. The
correspondential sense of yoga postures and wisdom sayings. This article
shows that Sacred Scriptures from Hinduism and Buddhism are compatible with
Western Sacred Scriptures when viewing their spiritual meaning rather than
their literal meaning.
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Introduction to Theistic
Psychology: |
Spring 2008. Introduction:
Non-theistic and Theistic Psychology || Mental World of
Eternity || Heaven and Hell || Mental Anatomy
|| Growth of the Mind || Reformation and Regeneration Through
the Mental Layers || Vertical Community ||
Choosing Between Heaven and Hell || Divine Speech
|| Correspondences in Sacred Scripture || Character Reformation
with the Divine Psychologist || Grand Human and Grand
Monster |
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Special Issue of
Information Swedenborg, Winter 2008 issue. Available
online. |
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Special Issue of
Information Swedenborg, Winter 2008 issue. Available
online. |
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Spring 2008. Who is the
Divine Psychologist || What is our relationship to God
|| What is the Omniproprium of the Divine Human || What are
heavenly and hellish loves || What is the mental anatomy of
mental growth and regeneration. |
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Born Into the |
Few people know and reflect
consciously on the fact that we are born into eternity, which means
immortality. We have our immortality since birth. We don’t actually live on
earth. We live in eternity in our spiritual body. Our mind, our thoughts
and feelings, are not on earth but in eternity. |
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Half a Century of Science in
Psychology: Neologisms Coined by Leon James |
Alphabetical list, with
dates, of thousands of expressions I coined since 1958, with links to full
text articles in which I use each new expression. Also given is the Google or
Yahoo search number of occurrences of each identical expression used by others
on the Web. |
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Syntactic Levels of Neologisms
|| Sentential Neos || The Spiritual Poetry of Neologisms || The Spiritual
Dimension of Neologisms || The Evolution of Neo Consciousness || Raising our
Consciousness by Thinking in Correspondences || The Battle of Heaven and Hell
in Our Mind || The Mental Zone of Resuscitation || Spiritual Garfinkeling --
Engineering Our Mental States on the Daily Round || Where are neologisms
located? Where do they come from? |
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Relationship between
virtual world and mental world. Mental psychology and avatar psychology.
Dualist empiricism. Research methodology. Acculturation procedures in
becoming a Second Life resident. Instruction and research in virtual world. |
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This book tries
to prove four propositions: (1) The literal sense of Sacred Scriptures
is associated with a specific religion, while the hidden correspondential
sense reveals a universal biological science that may be called theistic
psychology. (2) Any text that contains an extractable interior sense by the
application of correspondences, is Sacred Scriptures. (3) The Theological
Writings of Swedenborg are Sacred Scriptures. (4) The holy books known in the
major world’s religions today are Sacred Scriptures. |
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An Overview of Theistic Psychology Through the Sayings of Leon James, Emmanuel Swedenborg and Jesus of Nazareth (2009) |
Summarizes and shows the relationship between
Swedenborg's Writings and theistic psychology. |
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Topical Index
of over 2,000 entries, most with links to the full text online articles |
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Our Articles on the Affective-Cognitive
Connection: A Conceptual Framework for Explaining Information Behavior || Revelation About the Affective and the Cognitive || The Will and Understanding || The Heart and Lungs || Good and Truth || Religious Behaviorism || Religious Psychology || Comprehensive Discourse Analysis and Its Applications || Driving Behavior || Phases of Development in Becoming Internet Literate || In Psychotherapy || The Threefold Self || Symbols and Drawings || Topical Organization in Social Psychology || Titles of Articles || Resistance to Health Behaviors || Language Teaching || Song Analysis || Genetic Culture || Cross-cultural Atlas of Affective Meanings || Swedenborg's Theory of Trisubstantivism || The Genes of Consciousness |
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Online Books by Leon James
Principles of Theistic Psychology
|| Lecture Notes on Mental
Anatomy || Moses, Paul, and Swedenborg
|| The Unity Model of Marriage
|| Swedenborg Encyclopedia of
Theistic Psychology || The Levels of Human
Consciousness in Relation to God and Eternity || Scientific Neologisms Coined by Leon James in
Psychology For the Period 1958-2008 || A Man of the Field: Forming
the New Church Mind || De Hemelsche Leer Commentary
|| The Doctrine of the Wife
|| Collection of Driving
Psychology Articles || Road Rage and Aggressive Driving
|| See also:
Directory of Full Text
Articles and Books Online || Leon James Home |
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