Abstract The arts and humanities move us and change our minds—not just metaphorically but literally. This chapter provides a snapshot of some of the work that has occurred at the intersection of cognitive science and theater and literature. I provide a description and analysis of a theatrical experience that staged a challenge to traditional theories of cognition, demonstrating how artists are...
Jung often stated that the first effort of therapy was to try and reconnect patients to their native religions, since many did not suffer from a sense of the impossibility of coping, but, rather, from a meaningless, barren quality of life. This chapter has as its focus Jung’s understanding of religious experience as a numinous experience of the archetypal and eternal foundations of humanity...