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This book is so wild. This is rlly a reminder of the difference between understanding something at an intellectual level versus feeling it in your body and slowly letting the concepts sink in through engaging with the source. It can be easy to watch a youtube video about archetypes, dreams, collective unconscious, the modern vs primitive man etc But reading it is a different experience of the ideas

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“People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.”