Dreams: Fifty Years and Counting

I have been following my dreams since I was a child. Jung says that a single dream may give the dreamer a lot of information; however, a series of dreams over time will show where the dreamer needs to do additional work, where and how the dreamer's life may be headed, and how the dreamer is dealing with this knowledge that comes from a realm of wisdom that is both numinous and mysterious. In my life, spirit has become a profound partner by pointing me in directions that were not conscious to me. I have had a wonderful opportunity to work with a fellow dream worker for the past ten years. We use active imagination and amplification until the meaning of the dream becomes clearer. Often our dreams produce parallel images, feelings, and actions, which to my eye confirms the deeper psychic connection we all have with one another. I have used images to capture the impact of the dreams on my psyche, and poetry to confirm and augment the deeper level of wisdom that unfolds in our dreams. Dream interpretation can only encourage dreamers to allow themselves to become comfortable with working with their dream material, but does not necessarily show them the final answers.     

Forty Years with Moses

Noting that he has been in academia for 40 years, the author likens his experience to that of being among the group that emigrated from Egypt under the leadership of Moses and Aaron and wandered in the desert for 40 years. The biblical story is used to identify the various problems that one is likely to confront under the leadership of contemporary versions of Moses and Aaron. Survival strategies are also proposed for those who find themselves in this predicament.     

Prediction and Clinical Inference: Forty Years Later

The earlier controversy between clinical and statistical prediction has faded into the shadows. Few people today challenge the necessity for both approaches in seeking to develop and apply knowledge. In more contemporary terms, the issue of which prediction method should be preferred involves choosing between a quest for historical truth (i.e., correspondence demonstrated by staristical methods) and a quest for narrative truth (i.e., coherence achieved by clinical formulations).     

Divorce and Death: Forty Years of the Charleston Heart Study

ABSTRACT— Forty years of follow-up data from the Charleston Heart Study (CHS) were used to examine the risk for early mortality associated with marital separation or divorce in a sample of more than 1,300 adults assessed on several occasions between 1960 and 2000. Participants who were separated or divorced at the start of the study evidenced significantly elevated rates of early mortality, and these results held after adjusting for baseline health status and other demographic variables. Being separated or divorced throughout the CHS follow-up window was one of the strongest predictors of early mortality. However, the excess mortality risk associated with separation or divorce was completely eliminated when participants who had ever experienced a marital separation or divorce during the study were compared with all other participants. These findings suggest that a key predictor of early death is the amount of time people live as separated or divorced. It is possible that the mortality risk conferred by marital dissolution is due to dimensions of personality that predict divorce as well as a decreased likelihood of future remarriage.     

《英国美学杂志》40年

在千年纪元到来之际,《英国美学杂志》刚好推出它的第40卷,进入它的不惑之年。这就给了我们一个恰当的时机,透过刊物的视野,借几页序言的篇幅,对近半个世纪的美学及其前景做些许概括性的反思。严格说来,本刊的40周岁要到2000年秋季号才满,因为1960年秋天我们的第1期才面世。但是这些周而复始的数字有一种诱惑,鼓动我们将第40卷的首期与新千年的开始重合在一起,其真实理由不过是希望引起特别的注意。     

喜树碱类药物四十年研发的回顾与反思

通过对喜树碱类药物研发过程的历史回顾,探讨其存在的哲学意义和对其它植物药研发的价值。     

Praying in a Secularized Society: An Empirical Study of Praying Practices and Varieties

Social scientific studies from the secular Netherlands has pointed out that religious rituals such as praying are still widely present. This study examines the content of the praying practices of the Dutch and distinguishes varieties of prayer by analyzing answers to open-ended questions of a representative Dutch survey (N = 1,008). It is concluded, first, that a majority of the Dutch prays. Second, four varieties of prayer are distinguished: petitionary, religious, meditative, and impulsive prayer. Comparing these varieties with types of prayer found in other empirical studies, it emerges that the petitionary and religious prayer are similar to classical prayers found in other studies from less secularized countries, whereas the meditative and impulsive prayers are fundamentally different from other prayer types and can be considered as examples of a praying practice in a secularized society.