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MIND AND BODY

Program 10-03-21-A

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For decades Carl Jung's "Red Book" remained the most famous unpublished book in the history of psychology. Jung refused to publish it during his lifetimes, and his heirs kept it locked up after he died. The "Red Book" recorded Jung's visionary paintings and laid out his radical ideas for a new kind of psychology. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll tell you why this legendary book will change our thinking about Carl Jung.

SEGMENT 1:

Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam is the author of "The Hidden Brain." He tells Jim Fleming how a great deal of our thinking is shaped by our unconscious minds, such as routine tasks we do automatically. Also, novelist Siri Husvedt has an undiagnosed seizure disorder which afflicts her at unpredictable moments. She describes it in her book "The Shaking Woman, Or a History of My Nerves." She tells Anne Strainchamps about her lifelong hypersensitivity to some kinds of stimuli and what she's concluded about the nature of the self and personal identity.

SEGMENT 2:

We re-visit an old interview with the late Francis Crick where he lays out his "astonishing hypothesis," which is now the standard scientific view of consciousness. Then, Steve Paulson talks with philosopher Alva Noë, author of "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness." And we wind up stuck in "Bladerunner."

SEGMENT 3:

Don Lattin is the author of "The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America." He tells Anne Strainchamps the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960. And then things got really strange. Also, Somu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book." Thanks to his doggedness, the book's finally being published, decades after Jung's death. Shamdasani tells Steve Paulson about the extraordinary artwork in the "Red Book" and what issues Jung used it to work through.

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 10-03-21-A.

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Books & CDs:

Carl Jung, The Red Book (Norton)
Shankar Vedantam, The Hidden Brain (Spiegel and Grau)
Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (Henry Holt)
Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Kill the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America (HarperOne)
Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Hill and Wang)

Websites:

• Alva Noë
  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/
• Don Lattin
  http://www.donlattin.com/
• Siri Hustvedt
  http://sirihustvedt.net/
• Shankar Vedantam
  http://vedantam.com/

Music:

• In Return:
  Alain Eskinasi w/ “River Journey”
  On “Brainscapes”
  CyberOctave
  
• After Vedantam:
  Bill Colvig & Lou Harrison w/ “Jhala III”
  On “Orbitones
  Ellipsis Arts
  
• After Hustvedt:
  Alain Eskinasi w/ “Shamans Wood”
  On “Brainscapes”
  
• After Noe:
  Vangelis soundtrack from “Blade Runner”
  
• After Lattin:
  Beatles w/ “Come Together”
  On “1”
  EMI Records
  
• After Shamdasani:
  Peter Whitehead w/ “Tunnel of Love”

Distribution dates: week of 03/13/2011 - hour 1 week of 03/21/2010 - hour 1 click HERE for timings and cues

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