Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist, and multimedia artist. Writing itself is a developmental process that creates self-discovery, image, and meaning while integrating learning, memory, and experience.
Iona is a Symbolist and visionary, perhaps more pragmatic and less literal than most with similar interests. Her writing is informed by Jungian, Post-Jungian, Archetypal, Personality, and Transpersonal psychologies, as well as philosophy and meditation. Early knowledge of these processes shaped her relationship to the world. She is interested in creativity, experiential therapy, extraordinary human experiences, using interpretive and non-interpretive strategies. Many of today's trends in self-exploration came from the therapeutic communities of the 1960s and perennial wisdom traditions. She is also interested in effects at the global level, unintended consequences, rather than intentions. Experiential therapies were developed and popularized in later decades, and now are mainstream, thanks to social media. This psychology without walls transcends the consulting room, explores the soul of the world -- the global agora. It deliberately connects with personal history, the arts, culture and history of society, which are also derived from the imagination. Its lessons can be applied by individuals to themselves, adding new depth to Self-help. Her work is an omni-sensory fusion of depth psychology, personal mythology, meditation, dreamwork, science-art, frontier science, symbolism, philosophy, source mysticism, futuring, digital life, emergent healing, poetics, and paradigm shift. Her framework is semiotic (image-as-sign) and phenomenological (image-in-consciousness). Works with a trans- quality go beyond mundane time, space, logic and personal taste or aesthetic preference. They connect with our essential Being at the core, reflected in nature and art, piercing time to find eternity. Transcending content, they open a new dimension...an invisible initiatory dimension. From here the artist gives birth to the secret space of the image itself which comes alive by giving shape to that secret. In Iona's work, there is an underlying thread of digging in deep, connectivity and personal spirituality, based on contact with the numinous. Novel, transpersonal, uncanny, and highly personal appearances create a specific quality of sacredness that grips the soul with particular states (awe, dread, stupor, wonder, healing, reverence, astonishment, etc.). This contact is the essence of the guiding process -- an act of grace and profound symbolic experience. A certain brightness in the soul transcends our own personal suffering. When we rediscover it, it turns suffering into meaning. A temporary loss of personal identity is natural when consciousness expands into transpersonal Reality, into non-conceptual Mystery. LINKS Iona Miller Homepage http://ionamiller.weebly.com http://ionamiller2020.weebly.com Iona Miller Frontier Science http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com MRU - http://mankindresearchunlimited.weebly.com/ Iona Miller Publishing http://research-publication.site123.me/ Iona Miller Websites http://iona-miller-websites.site123.me/ IONA MILLER GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22Iona+Miller%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38 Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics, symbolism, source mysticism, futuring, and emergent paradigm shift, creating a unique viewpoint. She is interested in extraordinary human potential and experience, and the EFFECTS or unexpected consequences of doctrines of religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Miller practiced as an innovative Clincal Hypnotherapist through the 1980s and 1990s. She now enjoys active retirement in the Rogue Valley in So. Oregon, USA. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, DNA Decipher Journal, and Scientific God Journal, as well as the Board of Directors of Medigrace, Inc. & Calm Birth; a Miami-based Integral Medicine institute. She also works in Risk Management and Cyber Security. She has worked with the Science-Art Centre (Australia) since 2003, and the Editorial Board of CRAFT, AU (Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions) from its inception. The Center for the Study of Digital Life (CSDL) was formed (2012) as a 'digital' RAND Corporation, to try to avoid WW III or worse, by coordinating effects of East, West, and Digital spheres. She has shown her art work in individual and group shows in the following:
Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Paranoia Magazine, Alchemy Journal, Green Egg, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), ECODITION (Geneva), DNA Decipher Journal (DNADJ), Scientific God Journal (SGJ), Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Science-Art Research Centre Australia (SARCA), Dream Network, Chaosophy Journal, OAK-Publishing, PM&E, DNA Monthly, Antibothis, Pop Occulture, and more. Ms. Miller coordinates Media & Wellness in the Operations Division of The Osborne Group (TOG), a risk management organization. Over the last 10 years she also managed the ad hoc projects of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) alumni from 3 decades, in intelligence, digital life, new physics, paranormal, creativity, consciousness studies, DNA research, superlearning, DIY mind control, biophysics, other frontier science and blue sky experimentation. This work continues in a variety of forms and outlets. Ms. Miller has taught numerous community education classes (RCC) on Jungian Studies, Biofeedback, Hypnotherapy and related topics. She also oversees numerous curatorial, archival and genealogical projects. She has served in a professional capacity at Southern Oregon Hypnotherapy, Asklepia Foundation, Institute for Applied Consciousness Science, the Wisdom Center, Science-Art, USA, and Life Energies Research Institute. Selected Publications of Iona Miller: http://research-publication.site123.me/ |