Living on Tulsa Time II: From Groves of Academe to Open Plain
A nearby colleague, Phil Cary of Eastern University, in a recruitment video for his institution, said something powerful about a liberal...
How Do You Think You Are?
We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...
Bad Boys
So what’s the appeal of bad boys? Let’s be clear that the real “bad boys,” are the ones who have failed, the incarcerated felons, the...
How We Fool Ourselves
Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...
How We Know Ourselves: a. Limits
The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...
Call Me Ishmael No More
A personal example, using myth to understand and make sense out of the course of one’s life, is from my early academic journey. It uses...
A Deal with the Devil
Consistent with the overall theme of Neuromythology, I am including an interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The myth can...
Sophomoric Emotion
I have long found it odd that most college curricula in psychology do not include a course on emotion, as the research on emotion has...