Michael Glock, PhD candidate, to present at upcoming International Jungian Conference Glock's paper, "Cultural Futuristics: Foresight and Wisdom and the Construction of Smooth Minds" has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming International Association of Jungian Studies conference: Psyche and Imagination: A Multidisciplinary Academic Conference of Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies University of Greenwich, London England 6-9 July 2006 Abstract: This transdisciplinary, cultural hermeneutical paper posits that significant and numinous cultural events such as occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001 (9/11) contain material that if read, seen and heard through a cultural futuristic lens may reveal as yet unknown tomorrows and future scenarios. In particular, it constructs a set of precise unmasking methodologies and deconstructive processes, that when applied to significant cultural events produces an x-ray view into the unconscious forces at work within cultural events. Cultural futuristics is an imaginative endeavor which uncovers not opposite meanings or logical rational predictions or extrapolations but deeper complex truths concealed beneath layers of colonial rhetoric, cultural imperialism and globalization. The study establishes significant event as both geographical place and metaphorical client, which inhabits us as we inhabit it. Through listening to event as dream and place‹as though undergoing psychoanalysis, this study unconceals the unconscious in events. This procedure brings to meaning the teleological function of the unconscious in cultural events and how the unconscious is currently at work, forming and forging the future. This paper proposes a process and methodology that may be integrated into scenario planning. Where scenario planning is re-visioned by including the unconscious voices within cultural events. This paper posits an anti-dote for scientific materialism's tragedy: failure-of-imagination. # Posted by mck - Upcoming Events -