Status Updates From Man and his Symbols

“Suppressed and wounded instincts are the dangers threatening civilised man; uninhibited drives are the dangers threatening primitive man.”

“Thus the crystal often symbolically stands for the union of extreme opposites—of matter and spirit.”

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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