A man ahead of his time. Theodore Roszak’s call for a new synthesis of psychology, cosmology, and ecology is what we need to regain a sense of sanity where we can stop living in constructs of reality rather than reality itself.
Amazing, surprised that I havent come across Roszak before, but very pleased, he is so erudite and conveys a deep clarity. Intimacy of the psyche with nature - our missing link, brilliant!
I did not find one word about Theodore Roszak's death in the online versions of Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and The New York Times. I hope the paper versions of these newspapers have written something about him. Only on sfgate.com you can find a good tribute article written by cultural archaeologist Thomas Gladysz when you search on the internet for "Theodore Roszak (1933-2011). In Europe the news about his passing away came through his french publisher "éditions Le Cherche-Midi"(Paris).
Yes, yes and yes, again! I have to seek out more of TR's ideas - a thinker with intuition and a capacity for deep reflection. My sincere gratitude for this video.....
Rest in peace, mister Roszak. I will never forget you through your brilliant writings expressing such a profound wide view on human consciousness, society and the planet. We have lost a genius thinker ...
Ecological subconscious … very good and sound idea. It makes total sense to me for there is nothing disintegrated in the universe, and we are rediscovering this wisdom now through systems theory and the systems view of life.
I had never considered mankind's alienation from the environment from which it evolved as symptomatic of some kind of madness, but now that I think about it, it makes so much sense.
Brilliant. I wonder what role psychotropic plants play in this 'ecological wisdom'. After all, many 'primitive' cultures have long used plants ceremonially to reconnect with nature and seek wisdom, and there a many of today's scientists investigating the intelligence of plants and their therapeutic capabilities against illness, particularly psychological disorders.
Read Castañeda books, who is also an anthropologist and he explores with more detail this topic. If you want to be more specific, you can also research about ayahuasca.
There already is a related (though with different focus) long and well-established field actually called _Ecological Psychology_, that is largely due to the insights of James J. Gibson (eg, 1979 book - "The ecological approach to visual perception") - that extends back to his work in the 60s on perception and action. It focuses on _perception_ and how animals are RECIPROCAL to their environments and the old dualism of mind and body is wrong-headed, but it is the best way to address knowledge from within academic perceptual theory (yet remains a minority perspective). More clips to be found on my channel. Roszak plays a crucial role in how we might extend Gibson's scientific, experimental psychology approach. It is complementary and important. See Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action.
Hey there - where is the field of Ecological Psychology established? Some point to Roszak as the "founder," but you are hailing back to Gibson. Was Gibson a Psychologist or a natural scientist? It strikes me that one cannot propose a "perceptual theory" without being psychological.
@@shanebruce3997 Gibson was an _experimental psychologist_ with also a background in philosophy. Search: "Bill Mace ask not what's inside your head but what your head's insie of PDF". And: "Researchgate Direct Perception book"
@@shanebruce3997 Established?? Yes! Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action : "CESPA provides an organizational structure that allows unparalleled integration of research across specialties, with extensive collaboration among faculty and students. With 10 Faculty and many associated Fellows (including specialists in optics, acoustics, haptics, movement, physical therapy, nonlinear dynamics, development, social psychology, ethology, and language), the program provides a breadth of training in ecological psychology that is unmatched anywhere. Students in Ecological Psychology at the University of Connecticut will confront conceptual and methodological topics that are at the cutting edge of cognitive science in a program that has long led the way in the development of many of those same topics. Applicants who would like to tour the facilities and talk to students and faculty are encouraged to arrange a visit."
@@shanebruce3997 From Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action website: "What is ecological psychology? The ecological approach to perception and action, in the tradition of the late James J. Gibson, sees psychology as continuous with the natural sciences. Just as the behaviors of natural, nonliving systems at the very large and very small scales are approachable in terms of very general principles so, too, are the behaviors of living systems at the intermediate ecological scale, the scale at which animals and their environments are defined. Where the more orthodox strategy in cognitive science is to appeal to special mental processes to impose order and regularity on perception and action, the ecological approach seeks to expose the laws that underlie these capabilities. Proponents do not aim to reduce the phenomena of perception and action to known physical phenomena but to share with the natural sciences the law-based strategy of explanation. The task of identifying general principles at the ecological scale poses new and exciting challenges to be met by the development of novel tactics within an inter-disciplinary framework. The program in Ecological Psychology at the University of Connecticut exploits such a framework. For over 30 years, students of ecological psychology at the University of Connecticut have received training from leading proponents of the approach. These have included Claudia Carello, Carol Fowler, Claire Michaels, Robert Shaw, and Michael Turvey. All are now Emeritus in name but not in deed. Graduates of the program are now themselves at the vanguard of ecological science at major universities such as Arizona State, Brown, California-Riverside, Cincinnati, Clemson, Illinois State, Indiana, Ohio State, and Northeastern as well as at independent research facilities such as Haskins Laboratories, Hughes Research Laboratories, the National Defense Institute, and the Wyss Institute. One third of the Consulting Editors for the journal Ecological Psychology are graduates of the program at the University of Connecticut as are a number of the Consulting Editors of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. The semiannual International Conference on Perception and Action started here in 1981 and has since been hosted at several other sites within the U.S. as well as in Sweden, Italy, Holland, France, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Japan, Brazil and Portugal." I organised the Australia conference. See it on my channel.
I was a member of a food co-operative for years, then read William Greider and came to appreciate how protest had serious limits. As a longtime Greenpeace and Sierra Club member, too, I then went to believe in the value of Green buying- health food stores etc, and then green entrepreneurship. Just like Electronics high tech has gripped peoples´ imaginations which they take to parties, all this stuff, from organic beer to Green Electronics (see Greenpeace´s graphics and material on-line), fits.
Economic hardship can interfere with humans responding to the awareness of connection with the land and more than human community around them. Questions of how to get people to respond to that felt sense of participation with nature is tied up with the economic struggle of real and/or perceived felt of lack.
We have come a long way from savage behavior, but only in dreams may we find complete lack of it. Actually, if you think about it, reaping out every bit of "savageness" might possibly take away everything considered natural in anything.
The only answer is you can not eat words nor can you eat money. those who so often speak about it live in concrete jungles. others who soeak little live with the source isnt it so?
I love this discussion and I take it extremely seriously...but who on earth transcribed this??? I had to stop reading along because it was so ridiculous that I started laughing instead of paying attention.
I read his book "Sources", an anthology of writers who were mostly very pro-earth. It empowered me to be the ecological activist I still am today.
A man ahead of his time. Theodore Roszak’s call for a new synthesis of psychology, cosmology, and ecology is what we need to regain a sense of sanity where we can stop living in constructs of reality rather than reality itself.
Wonderful human being. Thank you for the deep contribution you made to saving the earth.
Amazing, surprised that I havent come across Roszak before, but very pleased, he is so erudite and conveys a deep clarity. Intimacy of the psyche with nature - our missing link, brilliant!
I did not find one word about Theodore Roszak's death in the online versions of Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and The New York Times. I hope the paper versions of these newspapers have written something about him. Only on sfgate.com you can find a good tribute article written by cultural archaeologist Thomas Gladysz when you search on the internet for "Theodore Roszak (1933-2011). In Europe the news about his passing away came through his french publisher "éditions Le Cherche-Midi"(Paris).
Yes, yes and yes, again! I have to seek out more of TR's ideas - a thinker with intuition and a capacity for deep reflection. My sincere gratitude for this video.....
Rest in peace, mister Roszak. I will never forget you through your brilliant writings expressing such a profound wide view on human consciousness, society and the planet. We have lost a genius thinker ...
HEAR! HEAR! Time for Dr Roszak to be rediscovered!
(Greetings from the UK!) 🌈🦉
WOW this guy is incredible. Says it all so fluidly and simply
Ecological subconscious … very good and sound idea. It makes total sense to me for there is nothing disintegrated in the universe, and we are rediscovering this wisdom now through systems theory and the systems view of life.
I had never considered mankind's alienation from the environment from which it evolved as symptomatic of some kind of madness, but now that I think about it, it makes so much sense.
Yes Jeff you carry not only the physiological genetical code you also share lifes light!
This is a brilliant observation; thank you.
Brilliant. I wonder what role psychotropic plants play in this 'ecological wisdom'. After all, many 'primitive' cultures have long used plants ceremonially to reconnect with nature and seek wisdom, and there a many of today's scientists investigating the intelligence of plants and their therapeutic capabilities against illness, particularly psychological disorders.
Read Castañeda books, who is also an anthropologist and he explores with more detail this topic. If you want to be more specific, you can also research about ayahuasca.
Thanks! Ill check those books out!
New research on that topic hot off the press from the Beckley Foundation in conjunction with Imperial College London.
Roszak is brilliant and wise. These virtues don't often go together. 🤔
Amazing thinker
Great video!
There already is a related (though with different focus) long and well-established field actually called _Ecological Psychology_, that is largely due to the insights of James J. Gibson (eg, 1979 book - "The ecological approach to visual perception") - that extends back to his work in the 60s on perception and action. It focuses on _perception_ and how animals are RECIPROCAL to their environments and the old dualism of mind and body is wrong-headed, but it is the best way to address knowledge from within academic perceptual theory (yet remains a minority perspective). More clips to be found on my channel.
Roszak plays a crucial role in how we might extend Gibson's scientific,
experimental psychology approach. It is complementary and important.
See Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action.
Hey there - where is the field of Ecological Psychology established? Some point to Roszak as the "founder," but you are hailing back to Gibson. Was Gibson a Psychologist or a natural scientist? It strikes me that one cannot propose a "perceptual theory" without being psychological.
@@shanebruce3997 Gibson was an _experimental psychologist_ with also a background in philosophy.
Search:
"Bill Mace ask not what's inside your head but what your head's insie of PDF".
And:
"Researchgate Direct Perception book"
@@shanebruce3997 Established?? Yes! Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action :
"CESPA provides an organizational structure that allows unparalleled integration of research across specialties, with extensive collaboration among faculty and students. With 10 Faculty and many associated Fellows (including specialists in optics, acoustics, haptics, movement, physical therapy, nonlinear dynamics, development, social psychology, ethology, and language), the program provides a breadth of training in ecological psychology that is unmatched anywhere. Students in Ecological Psychology at the University of Connecticut will confront conceptual and methodological topics that are at the cutting edge of cognitive science in a program that has long led the way in the development of many of those same topics. Applicants who would like to tour the facilities and talk to students and faculty are encouraged to arrange a visit."
@@shanebruce3997 From Center for the Ecological Study of Perception & Action website:
"What is ecological psychology?
The ecological approach to perception and action, in the tradition of the late James J. Gibson, sees psychology as continuous with the natural sciences. Just as the behaviors of natural, nonliving systems at the very large and very small scales are approachable in terms of very general principles so, too, are the behaviors of living systems at the intermediate ecological scale, the scale at which animals and their environments are defined.
Where the more orthodox strategy in cognitive science is to appeal to special mental processes to impose order and regularity on perception and action, the ecological approach seeks to expose the laws that underlie these capabilities. Proponents do not aim to reduce the phenomena of perception and action to known physical phenomena but to share with the natural sciences the law-based strategy of explanation. The task of identifying general principles at the ecological scale poses new and exciting challenges to be met by the development of novel tactics within an inter-disciplinary framework. The program in Ecological Psychology at the University of Connecticut exploits such a framework.
For over 30 years, students of ecological psychology at the University of Connecticut have received training from leading proponents of the approach. These have included Claudia Carello, Carol Fowler, Claire Michaels, Robert Shaw, and Michael Turvey. All are now Emeritus in name but not in deed. Graduates of the program are now themselves at the vanguard of ecological science at major universities such as Arizona State, Brown, California-Riverside, Cincinnati, Clemson, Illinois State, Indiana, Ohio State, and Northeastern as well as at independent research facilities such as Haskins Laboratories, Hughes Research Laboratories, the National Defense Institute, and the Wyss Institute.
One third of the Consulting Editors for the journal Ecological Psychology are graduates of the program at the University of Connecticut as are a number of the Consulting Editors of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. The semiannual International Conference on Perception and Action started here in 1981 and has since been hosted at several other sites within the U.S. as well as in Sweden, Italy, Holland, France, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Japan, Brazil and Portugal."
I organised the Australia conference. See it on my channel.
I was a member of a food co-operative for years, then read William Greider and came to appreciate how protest had serious limits. As a longtime Greenpeace and Sierra Club member, too, I then went to believe in the value of Green buying- health food stores etc, and then green entrepreneurship. Just like Electronics high tech has gripped peoples´ imaginations which they take to parties, all this stuff, from organic beer to Green Electronics (see Greenpeace´s graphics and material on-line), fits.
Economic hardship can interfere with humans responding to the awareness of connection with the land and more than human community around them. Questions of how to get people to respond to that felt sense of participation with nature is tied up with the economic struggle of real and/or perceived felt of lack.
Driving a car, flying, shopping, excessive screen time, eating alone in restaurants.....and so on are making people mad.
Whats happeming now?
We have come a long way from savage behavior, but only in dreams may we find complete lack of it. Actually, if you think about it, reaping out every bit of "savageness" might possibly take away everything considered natural in anything.
@@Randomuser2329 And?
@@Randomuser2329 Damn you internet trash...lol
A lot of nature isnt about love, trust and respect...
That we came from the natural world doesn't mean we have to go back. The natural world is inherently savage.
hello .alguien español?
ecological wizardry.
yes yes yes. earth speaks to human beings and animals. Truth is simple investigate this closely. NOW.
As opposed to the complete lack of savage behavior in modern societies? :-/
indigenous voice and vision was lost
The only answer is you can not eat words nor can you eat money. those who so often speak about it live in concrete jungles. others who soeak little live with the source isnt it so?
I love this discussion and I take it extremely seriously...but who on earth transcribed this??? I had to stop reading along because it was so ridiculous that I started laughing instead of paying attention.