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PROMO FOR   03/21/2010        "Mind and Body"
*For decades Carl Jung's "Red Book" remained the most famous unpublished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 lifetime, 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.  


PROGRAM RUNDOWN:  "Mind and Body"


0:00 - 18:43        SEGMENT 1: (18:44)
            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 One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

18:44 - 19:13  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

19:14 - 30:04       SEGMENT 2: (10:52)
            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 Noe, 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 Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

30:05 - 30:34       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

30:35 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (22:25)
            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, Sonu 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.
              
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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