Articles
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Some characteristics of intrajudge trait intercorrelations ...
APA Citation. Koltuv, Barbara Black. 1962 Some characteristics of intrajudge ... Psychological monographs. American Psychological Association.
An innovative and creative use of statistics to study how projection functions and malfuntions in an individual person.
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Hestia/Vesta
- Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D.
Quadrant Volume 10, No. 2, Winter 1977Hestia was wooed by both Poseidon and Apollo. She refused to give herself to either of them and swore a great oath on Zeus' head to remain a virgin and true to herself forever. In gratitude to her for preserving the peace of Olympus "Zeus gave her a beautiful privilege instead of a wedding gift: he has her sit in the center of the house to receive the best in offerings." Hestia, well pleased with the honors granted her, secure in her position as recipient of first and last sacrifices, and seated symbolically as an altar in every domestic and public hearth in Greece, seems never to have left her home on Olympus and took no part in either the love affairs or wars of the Olympians. Hestia, called "Vesta" by the Romans, played a major role in Roman mythology and religious life.
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Lilith
- Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D.
Quadrant Volume 16, No. 1, Spring 1983Lilith, an irresistible, long haired, she demon of the night, flies through Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Teutonic mythology. The present paper is an attempt to tell her story, to evoke her presence in consciousness, and to inquire into her meaning in the modern psyche.
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Dreams of Love
- Barbara Black Koltuv, Ph.D.
Spring 2006 Natural Bridge: St. Louis MissouriThe Song of Songs As Dreams Of Love
In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed, then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction (Job 33:15-16)
A dream not interpreted is like a letter unread---
Chisda, Talmud Berakoth, p. 87The ancients understood that dreams are divinely inspired. They arise from the divine spark present in each of us. Any concentrated attention to one's dreams begins a dialectical process that feels good, restores one to oneself, and has unexpected and far reaching beneficial effects. Even the simple act of remembering or telling or recording a dream has a restorative effect. The meaning of re-membering, or re-collecting is better expressed when there is a hyphen to connect the dismembered parts. The Kabbalist, Isaac Luria believed that originally God created ...Sephirot... or vessels that contained all of God's attributes: Beneath the crown were: wisdom, understanding, mercy, strength, knowledge, victory, glory, beauty, and foundation. The vessels shattered and the divine sparks flew into the world. Recollecting dreams is the work of restoring the ...Sephirot... and the Self within.
When Self is written with a capital S it refers to that experience of the divine within oneself. There is a way of Self-knowledge or Self-realization wherein all the disparate, despised , and desired elements in a dream are redeemed from their exile, and ingathered by the eye of love. The dream must be welcomed with an open listening heart, and viewed with loving acceptance.