About
Sitting at "the cliff," a favorite swimming spot at High Rock Island, Georgian Bay, where I spent every childhood summer.
Born in Toronto in 1962, I grew up hoping to be a professional musician. I also wanted to space travel but was nowhere near good enough at math to become an astronaut. As the years passed I sort of fell into the path of knowledge. I suppose this is partly because whenever good and especially bad things happened, I always found refuge in trying to understand why.
After completing an M.A. in Comparative Religion (Santiniketan, India), I did a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (UOttawa). My Ph.D. thesis is online, and gives pretty thorough coverage of Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity, as viewed through the lens of Michel Foucault’s discourse theory.
In 2001, I converted to Catholicism and considered both priestly and monastic vocations. But after investigating these options, I realized that neither were for me.
Since then, my interests have shifted in emphasis from psychology and religion, per se, to the broader areas of world mythology, the arts, sciences, and the history of ideas.
Approaching my 50th year, I’ve been in and out of several long term relationships and have learned much from each. But when all is said and done, I’m still a simple pilgrim traveling through God’s creation, learning new things every day.
Feel free to connect online through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Just my pics, or contact me.
Of interest. Based on the final conclusions of Jung and Pauli,
regarding number symbolism, synchronicity, etc.
http://www.groundreport.com/article.php?articleID=2837166
Thanks for this…
HI Michael. I too am graduated from Trent 1978 and also was born and raised in Canada. I arrived here via the tag Manic-Depression and clicked on the link http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/hendrix-jimmy/ that showed up under tags associated with Manic-Depression. Would love to know more of what your doing.
Kind Regards,
Michael Pokocky
Hey Michael… what you see here on the web is pretty much what I’m up to! I was going to publish “Think Free” as a book but decided last summer to blog it. Comments from people like yourself make it far more interesting. Am hoping that it will grow and I can go into a more commercial model, or possibly a charitable org. model. I see from your post on Branson (elsewhere) that you’re skeptical of philanthropy. Well, I guess that’s a complicated, many sided issue. My view is that the world won’t really change radically overnight, so any little bit of good probably helps!
Be well and thanks for your interest in my endeavors.
Well thanks Michael for writing. I got a sense and a very good one of your background and I must say it is indeed a pleasure to see such positive affirmations from so many people who know you.
What I see here is thus another extension of curiosity a trait that I admire and feel it is the key to going beyond one’s reach without expectation and find an Ahh! moment over and over again.
As far as Philanthropy I never thought about it that much. I did write a the Salon Article in one of my moods, so the flavor you get one time may change due to my curiosity and mood at any given moment.
Please take a moment to see my personal site at http://www.michaelpokocky.com and I point you specifically to The Sophistica Manifesto. The back story for this is something else but that was written and after reading it I still stand by it.
Let me know which links to use for my blogPsche+ at http://philosophis.wordpress.com because I want to include you there and as well I want to feature you in the category featured profile+. A picture would be nice too. This is what I like to do: feature people and bring a smile to their faces. Its not about me; its about giving unconditionally. For that I remain integral and committed.
Kind Regards,
Michael Pokocky
I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Links and such.
Have you seen any large studies that measure the percentage of children who convert from their parents religion?
Also, is there a convenient summary of the major religions which lists their basic belief, the rewards they promise to the faithful, and the penalties for the non-believers?
I’d try these web sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_conversion
http://www.adherents.com/
http://www.about.com/religion/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
I would like to ask a question. Where can I do this?
Thanks!
Hi Susan, thanks for your interest. It depends on what type of question.
I should have a link on this blog to earthpages’ contact form:
http://web.ncf.ca/dy656/earthpages/contact.html
If this doesn’t sufficiently explain, feel free to follow up.
Hi, nice to meet you !
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