User:DStoney

S. David Stoney, Ph.D., graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BA in Psychology in 1962 and received his doctorate in Physiology from Tulane University in 1966. After four years at New York Medical College in Manhattan, he moved to the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, where he remained until his retirement. His research used electrophysiological techniques to study individual neuronal properties, such as the effects of Calcium ions on neuronal action potentials, accommodation to linearly rising currents in different types of neurons, and filtering action on action potential conduction at axonal branch points. In addition he studied the cortical organization of somatic motor and sensory systems. He was Course Director for the Freshman Neuroscience course for medical students at the Medical College of Georgia from 1978 until his retirement in 2001. This position gave him a broad perspective on nervous system function and dysfunction. Climate change, especially the earth’s ongoing climate cycle, caught his interest in the 1990’s. He intuited that climate change might be related to an intense psychic event he experienced in 1976 and that climate change and human consciousness were related. In exploring their possible connections he became aware of and has since studied extensively the Jungian notion of archetypes. He has concluded that the birthing process of the human species led to the creation of a powerful archetype that manifests in this era as an upsurge in anxiety and a feeling that something huge and dangerous is imminent. This archetype, which is both a warning and a call to wholeness and awakening has been mistaken in the past for an archetype of catastrophic apocalypse. Dr. Stoney presented his work to the Jung Society of Charleston, SC, in October, 2019 and published a paper on that topic in 2021. See below for further description and links to that paper and other recent writing on the evolution of human consciousness and spirituality.