"My old and dirty gods" refers to Freud's personal collection of antiquities which numbered about 3,000 pieces at the time of his death.  Contemporary metapsychology began a century ago with Freud though most people are not aware of his deeper interest in metapsychology nor that Egyptian classicism served as the primary source of inspiration for the theory of psychoanalysis.  Metapsychology is, in a very literal sense, a contemporary restatement of Egyptian classicism applied to the realm of human ontogeny.    For reasons we may never fully understand, Freud modeled the theory of ego differentiation after the Egyptian concept of genesis yet omitted many other important Egyptian philosophical constructs from his work.  Carl Jung corrected these omissions to some degree with his elucidation of the mythic dimension of the psyche and the archetypes of the collective unconscious.  Twenty-first century metapsychology aims at deepening the process of correcting these omissions in the interest of providing the most comprehensive picture possible of classical Egyptian philosophy and psychology and its relevance to the times in which we live.

 "Thinking with the Gods" is a six week introductory overview of basic concepts in metapsychology based upon the forthcoming book by Denise Marts due out in late 2010.  This introductory series explores the broad evolutionary thesis of metapsychology and three of its basic constructs, the concept of the metacyle, metacognition and psychological entropy.  It introduces an alternative interpretation of the evolution of western civilization that places it origins in Egypt rather than Greece.  "Thinking with the Gods" suggests that the death and resurrection of the Egyptian God Osiris was, like the death and resurrection of Jesus, an actual historical event that, over many millennia, passed into legend and myth.  It further suggests that the Osirian and Christian resurrections were two astrologically timed manifestations of a single evolutionary impulse that has been driving the course of western civilization for nearly 12 millennia. 

This series is a prerequisite for all future series in metapsychology.  It is designed to be very "user friendly" as well as enlightening and fun!  Below is an overview of the material presented in this introductory series:

-  Planetary evolution and the evolution of human consciousness occur simultaneously in roughly 25,000 year cycles based upon the earth's precession, a 25,765 year earthly cycle wherein the wobble of the earth's axis causes the equinox to slowly regress 360 degrees through all twelve signs of the zodiac.

-  Metacycle is the term that refers to this grand planetary cycle and metacognition is the term that refers to the co-evolutionary process of human and planetary consciousness.

-  Planetary metacycles have two phases lasting roughly 12,500 years each.  The first phase of a planetary metacycle is referred to as involution and involves the descent of the human spirit into matter.  The second phase of a planetary metacycle is evolution proper and involves the release of the human incarnate form back into spirit. 

-  Metapsychology asserts that humanity is not evolving, but rather involving and has been doing so for approximately 12,500 years now.  Concomitant with human involution is a loss of spiritual awareness as consciousness becomes more densely materialized and increasingly identified with matter in the form of the individual ego/body/mind complex.    Metapsychology further suggests that we are fast approaching the maximum point of involution within the current metacycle as evidenced by the increasingly global absorption of human consciousness in the Godless, souless, spiritually void philosophy of scientific materialism.  The bad news is that spiritually speaking we have hit rock bottom.  The good news is that there is nowhere to go but up.  We are at a critical turning point in human history where involution is about to become evolution.  The initial steps toward evolution proper for most modern people involves a shift in the locus of personal identification from the isolated, individual ego to a divine mythological archetype.  Archetypes function as templates that organize and direct the evolution of consciousness into manifest form.  The ego logs on to an archetype, so to speak, and the collective nature of a divine archetype allows the ego to integrate with a beneficent psychic reality broader than itself and to begin to experience states of consciousness that lie beyond its limited range of awareness.  As this process begins, develops and becomes consolidated the experience of the separate self expands in terms of identification and function.  The ego goes from being merely aware of a divine archetype in the beginning to being fully identified with it and in possession of all its inherent creative capabilities.  Hence, the shift from involution to evolution is literally a process of "Thinking with the Gods".

 -  "Thinking with the Gods" examines the central role of mythological identification in adult spiritual development.  It focuses upon the mythological archetypes associated with the planetary bodies of our local solar system and astrological lore.  Of primary import for most adults is the need to reacquaint consciousness experientially with the solar and lunar mythological archetypes as an initial step in beginning to heal the profound sense of alienation from the natural world, a schism which is at the root of the growing global spiritual and ecological crisis.  

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