… and not the destination. Just ask my 2 year old daughter who has gone up and down the same set of steps a dozen times.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
But the collective unconscious is a very irrational factor, and our rational consciousness cannot dictate to it how it should make its appearance. Of course, if left entirely to itself, its activation can be very destructive; it can, for instance, be a psychosis. Therefore, man’s relation to the collective unconscious has always been regulated; there is a characteristic form by which the archetypal images are expressed. For the collective unconscious is a function that always operates, and man has to keep in touch with it. His psychic and spiritual health is dependent on the co-operation of the impersonal images. Therefore man has always had his religions.
What are religions? Religions are psychotherepeutic systems.
C.G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice
Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. You can study that in the history of the Church. Always in those times when the Church begins to waver the style becomes fanatical, or fanatical sects spring up, because the secret doubt has to be quenched. When one is really convinced, one is perfectly calm and can discuss one’s beliefs as a personal point of view without any particular resentment.
C.G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice
Things were pretty much perfect in the ol’ Garden of Eden before the whole “apple” incident, right? And God created everything and said (and I quote) “That’s frickin’ Good!” So, were there ticks and mosquitos and fleas and tapeworms and hookworms in the Garden? And if so, what was their relationship to humans and animals? Were mosquitoes “nice” blood suckers who didn’t inject poison into their victim to make an itchy, red welt? Did fleas bite but not cause disease and itching? Did Adam have tapeworms but they caused no ill side-effects?
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