The Seba library treats Bundle in 9 passages, across 9 authors (including Organization, Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service, Thompson, Evan, Epstein, Mark).
We notice the generations of our family passing forward a bundle. They move the bundle along by handing it off from one generation to the next.
The bundle here is the primary image for intergenerational trauma transmission, rendered as a physical object passed through a lineage of a hundred or more generations.
, The twelve steps of adult children steps workbook, 2007thesis
According to the bundle theory, there is no single and permanent self that persists through time; the self is rather a bundle of constantly changing and psychologically continuous experiences or mental episodes.
Thompson invokes the philosophical bundle theory of personal identity to frame the self — and by analogy his own evolving text — as a dynamic aggregate rather than a fixed essence.
, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, 2007thesis
At this point, the old man simply dropped his bundle onto the ground. Just like that, the monk was enlightened. In an instant he, too, had put down his whole defensive organization, the entire burden.
Epstein uses the Zen parable of the dropped and re-shouldered bundle to argue that enlightenment means releasing one’s entire defensive psychic organization, not abandoning ordinary life.
, Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness, 1998thesis
This method normally involved the employment of a bundle of marked yarrow stalks from which a series of six individual stalks were removed at random.
Clarke describes how the traditional I Ching divination method uses a bundle of yarrow stalks as the material substrate for the synchronistic selection of hexagrams.
, Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient, 1994supporting
The only subjective intervention in this experiment consists in the experimenter’s arbitrarily — that is, without counting — dividing up the bundle of forty-nine stalks at a single swoop.
Jung identifies the single, uncounted division of the yarrow-stalk bundle as the sole and crucial moment of subjective participation in I Ching consultation, the locus of synchronistic meaning.
, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963supporting
is a bundle of branches perhaps called Bakyxos. Such carrying and waving of branches is found with great frequency at festivals of the gods and basically reflects the most primitive, virtually pre-human kind of weaponry.
Burkert identifies the ritual bundle of branches (possibly the Bacchic thyrsos) as a ceremonial object whose aggressive, apotropaic function is rooted in archaic, pre-human gesture.
, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, 1972supporting
sometimes bundles of (four, five, or six) identical spits being carried in one hand.
Seaford notes that vase-paintings depict bundles of standardized sacrificial spits, situating the bundle within the economic and ritual logic of communal sacrifice and early monetary standardization.
, Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy, 2004supporting
Note position of A2 nucleus in the medulla and the ‘ventral bundle.’
Schore references the ventral noradrenergic bundle as a neuroanatomical pathway in a diagram of rat brain monoamine systems, using ‘bundle’ in a strictly technical neurological sense.
, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, 1994aside
the Buddha denied that there was any such thing as a constant personality. He would have regarded the obstinate belief in a sacred, irreducible nub of selfhood as an ‘unskillful’ delusion.
Armstrong’s account of Buddhist anatta doctrine contextually illuminates the bundle theory of self, showing the Pali Canon’s structural denial of any enduring, unified personal essence.
, Buddha, 2000aside