Maxwell, one of the key voices from R&B’s neosoul era, is back making music after a long hiatus. The Grammy-nominated singer talks about his U.S. tour and upcoming fourth studio release, ‘Black Summer’s Night.’ (Oct. 7)

Duration : 0:3:24

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Unwinding your unconsciousness, mandalas completely choreographed and combined with natural images, no computer animation dedicated to Carl Jung.

Make meditation easy with these dancing mandalas created by holistic visionary & visual art guru Moor Santaduri
Accompanied by the powerful healing sound of the golden singing crystal bowls.
Witness enhanced states of closed-eye meditation visualizations after focusing on these visuals.

Carl Jung and Active Imagination

For Carl Jung the imagination has an important role to play in healing. It is through imagination that the bounds and constraints of the conscious mind which is limiting in it’s nature, can be removed, and deeper cosmic resources can be brought to bear on issues, both psychological and physical.

Jung said this about active imagination:
“But active imagination, as the term denotes, means that the images have a life of their own and that the symbolic events develop according to their own logic - that is, of course, if your conscious reason does not interfere…. The symbol of the mandala has exactly this meaning of a holy place, a temenos, to protect the centre. And it is a symbol which is one of the most important motifs in the objectivation of unconscious images…..

“The suggestive influence of the picture reacts on the psychological system of the patient and induces the same effect which he put into the picture. That is the reason for idols, for the magic use of sacred images, of icons. They cast their magic into our system and put us right, provided we put ourselves into them. If you put yourself into the icon, the icon will speak to you. Take a lamaic mandala which has a Buddha in the centre, or a Shiva, and, to the extent that you can put yourself into it, it answers and comes into you. It has a magic effect. You begin by concentrating upon a starting point….

“When you concentrate on a mental picture, it begins to stir, the image becomes enriched by details, it moves and develops. Each time, naturally, you mistrust it and have the idea that you have just made it up, that it is merely you own invention. But you have to overcome that doubt, because it is not true.

“We can really produce precious little by our conscious mind. All the time we are dependent upon things that literally fall into our consciousness…. We depend entirely upon the benevolent co-operation of our unconscious.”

Duration : 0:7:1

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From Gross to Subtle.

Duration : 6 min 25 sec

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http://www.ted.com One-of-a-kind R&B group Naturally 7 beatboxes an orchestra’s worth of instruments to groove through their smooth single, “Fly Baby.”

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Duration : 0:3:57

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