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Draft: Leon James (formerly Leon A. Jakobovits)

Leon James (born Licu A. Jakobovits 1938 in Rumania, formerly known and published as Leon A. Jakobovits)

Dr. Leon James has a Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada, and has taught at the University of Illinois before moving to the University of Hawaii where he is currently a Professor of Psychology. He has published books and articles in several specialties including psycholinguistics, language teaching, driving psychology, online instruction, and the spiritual psychology of E. Swedenborg.

Sep 1964 - Aug 1970

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


 * Institute of Communications Research
 * Urbana, United States

Position


 * Co-Director, Center for Comparative Psycholinguistics [1]

= About Leon James = Leon James was born in 1938 in Rumania under the name of Leon "Licu" "James" Jakobovits. He went to school in Belgium and college in Montreal, Canada. He obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology at McGill University in 1962. He taught at Laval University in Quebec, University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, and at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu where he is currently Professor of Psychology.

He specializes in driving psychology and maintains a Web site at DrDriving.org He has given 1,500 interviews to the media since 1997. See the full list here: http://www.drdriving.org/about/drdriving-interviews-2014.htm

In 1981 he came across the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). After years of studying Swedenborg's Writings, Leon James developed a modern scientific version of Swedenborg's psychology, which he calls "theistic psychology". His books and articles on this topic are posted on the Web at http://www.theisticPsychology.org

Professor James teaches online courses for psychology majors at the University of Hawaii. His students learn internet technology through the use of Google+ Hangout for interacting online and carrying out collaborative projects online.

He has published journal articles and books in psychology for over half a century.

He can be reached by email at licujames@gmail.com

His university Web site is at: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/leon.htm [2]

Review
"...the definitive book on the aggressive driving epidemic..." -- Palo Alto Daily News, November 4, 2000

About the Author
Leon James, Ph.D. (Honolulu, HI), the nation's foremost authority on road rage and aggressive driving, is frequently quoted in the nation's press and has raised the standard of discussion on this topic. His expert testimony at congressional hearings in July 1997 helped legislators to realize that aggressive driving is a cultural problem. Diane Nahl, Ph.D. (Honolulu, HI), is associate professor of Information and Computer Sciences in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawaii and is the founder of the new field of Driving Informatics. Dr. Nahl and Dr. James have authored the RoadRageous aggressive-driving video course, which is used in driving schools and court-mandated traffic violator schools. They're also active in aggressive-driving prevention training for law enforcement, and their Web site at DrDriving.org provides services for older drivers, commercial drivers, and teen drivers.[3] Leon James has authored a series of books on what he calls theistic psychology. He describes his ideas as a new modern synthesis of the works of Carl Jung (1875-1961) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). He has been Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii since 1971. Today he teaches all his psychology courses online. His current research involves the attempt to synthesize the work of Jung and Swedenborg. Jung discovered the psychic world of archetypes as having an existence of its own, and independently of the physical world. Swedenborg discovered the spiritual world of afterlife societies to be in eternity and not in time and physical space. In the attempt to synthesize Jung and Swedenborg, Dr. James made the discovery that the “psychic world” of Jung and the “spiritual world” of Swedenborg refer to the same world. He then came to the conclusion that the psychic world and the spiritual world are the same world as the “mental world” in which we all live as human beings. There is only one mental world and all human beings are born into it. Since there is no physical time or space in the mental world it is called the mental world of eternity. You are in it now! A significant consequence of this identification between psychic world, spiritual world, and mental world, is to realize that we are born into the mental world of eternity with our immortal spiritual body, and therefore we are not really on earth, as it appears to be. The existential illusion that we are on earth, and that our mind is in the physical body comes from the fact that our natural mind in eternity receives all its sensory input by correspondence from the physical body on earth. Our immortal spiritual body with which we are born into the mental world of eternity is connected by correspondence to our temporary physical body on earth. This is the source of our belief that we are on earth. We are disconnected from the physical body through the two-day dying-resuscitation procedure. When this occurs we lose all contact with earth and we begin immortal life in the afterlife of mental eternity.[4]

= College of Social Sciences Profile =

Leon James

 * UH Email: leon@hawaii.edu

College of Social Sciences Affiliations
Department of Psychology (PSY)


 * Faculty - Professor
 * Office: online office 808-261-2382
 * Phone: 808-261-2382
 * Fax: 808-261-2382

History
Education:

PhD, Psychology, McGill University (1962)

Interests
Research:

Dr. Leon James areas of interest include driving psychology, information literacy, discourse analysis, substantive dualism, and theistic psychology. His recent work includes (a) developing taxonomic inventories of driver behaviors in the affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor domains, and suitable for driver assessment and driver education (b) Cyberpsychology, Social Networking, and Online Literacy (c) Investigating the theistic psychology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1771) and relating it to contemporary behavioral psychology (d) Marriage and Relationship with a focus on the popular media and couple's dialog. Examples of recent Web publications include (a) Road Rage: Emotional Intelligence for Drivers; (b) Creating an Online Learning Environment that Fosters Information Literacy, Autonomous Learning and Leadership: The Hawai‘i Online Generational Community-Classroom; (c) Overcoming Objections to Swedenborg's Writings Through the Development of Scientific Dualism. (d) Theistic Psychology. Dr. James does occasional reviews for Second Language Learning, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and the International Journal of Psycholinguistics. Dr. James maintains two World Wide Web sites where he publishes study materials and research reports for scholars, students, safety officials, driving school instructors, and government agencies relating to transportation and traffic safety and education.

Instruction
Advising:

Dr. James is interested in working with graduate students who are interested in studying the social-educational dynamics of Quality Driving Circles (small groups of drivers meeting regularly as a continuous program of lifelong driver self-improvement).

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Draft: John Hanson Thomas Main

Born 1859-Died 1931) of Ohio, Maryland and Iowa. Educator of Greek, Philology, College President.
 * http://ourfamilyhistories.com/hsdurbin/greene/maine.html

Phd & LLD (Law) Degree

On the list of longest serving college presidents in the U.S. (wikipedia article)
 * https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/commencement/speakers.html

June 13, 1928:  John Hanson Thomas Main, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Grinnell College, "The American Ideal"
 * https://www.coloradocollege.edu/other/academic-events-committee/honorary-degrees/recipients.html

Honorary DHL (Doctor of Humane Letters) degree from Colorado College

John Hanson Thomas Main DHL 1928

Grandfather? https://library.uafs.edu/sites/librarydev.uafs.edu/files/Departments/fshsj/15-02_complete_issue.pdf "DEATH OF DR. J.H.T. MAIN

Dr. John Hanson Thomas  Main, one of the oldest and most  respected  citizens of Fort  Smith,  died Wednesday afternoon at  2 o'clock after a short illness occasioned by nervous prostration.

His death took place at the old family residence where he had lived for two score years. He was in his 78th year. Dr. Main was born in Frederick County, Maryland,  Nov. 13, 1812.

He came to Fort Smith 54 years ago and resided here continually ever since. May 5, 1848, he was united in marriage with  Isabella,  daughter of Joseph Armorer, in this city.

Of this union one child was born, Lillie, the wife of Dr. W.W. Bailey. Dr. Main was a prominent Mason and had held several exalted positions in that  order. Funeral services will  take

place today at  2 o'clock  with  Masonic  honors.

We shall give more extended notice of Dr. Main's life in our next week's issue."
 * http://ourfamilyhistories.com/hsdurbin/greene/maine.html

Material for Coraline Ada Ehmke
 * https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw43kj/what-happens-if-linux-developers-remove-their-code

"Although few dispute that the open source software (OSS) movement was founded on the principle of meritocracy, its legitimacy as a governing model has been called into question recently. In addition to creating the Contributor Covenant that is the basis of the Linux Code of Conduct, Coraline Ada Ehmke has also been leading the charge against meritocracy.

“If open source is truly based on a genuine and sincere meritocracy, where people rise to positions of influence and power based solely on their intellectual contributions, the only rational explanation for the dominance of cisgender straight-passing white men in our field is that these people somehow have constitutional or biological advantages that make them better coders than transgender and nonbinary people, white women, women of color, and men of color,” Ehmke wrote in a recent blog post."
 * https://www.wired.com/story/woman-bringing-civility-to-open-source-projects/