Jung-science

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Jung Science

Title text: The best part of the book is his descriptions of Freud fainting because Jung didn't believe sex was the cause of everything.

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You skeptics are quick to dismiss jung, but he was just saying that there are mythic archetypes in the human mind that we need to understand

He believed in telepathy, psychokinetic explosions, alchemy, reincarnation, ufos, and he once had a very formative dream in which god, sitting on a golden throne, personally shat on him.

The problem is people don't read books anymore. They watch 12 minute summaries written by nice modern people who read half the wikipedia entry.

You're trying to build

A personal philosophy based on a simplification of a simplification of

A summary!

Well how do you get through a complex world with a tiny human brain?

I read two

Complex books

Per year, yell at people about them, and feel great.

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From the translation by Richard and Clara Winston:

I thought it over again and arrived at the same conclusion. "Obviously God also desires me to show courage," I thought. "If that is so and I go through with it, then He will give me His grace and illumination?

I gathered all my courage, as though I were about to leap forthwith into hell-fire, and let the thought come. I saw before me the cathedral, the blue sky. God sits on His golden throne, high above the world--and from under the throne an enormous turd falls upon the sparkling new roof, shatters it, and breaks the walls of the cathedral asunder. So that was it! I felt an enormous, an indescribable relief.

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