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Repression of the religious myth leads to the neurosis of our time, to a primitive mythologization of secular values, to a pseudoreligion of material prosperity, monetary greed and sexual thrills. Finally, the repressed energy of the myth contains also the threat of collective no less than individual psychosis, which those who can become aware of the situation have the awesome responsibility to attempt to transform.

For us Westerners, even in our “modern” outlook, sexuality is at best admissable when serving love or procreation. It is also fun, but it is regarded as “nothing but” fun when not serving love or procreation. It is not seen as divine in itself, revealing and leading to the unfathomable, to union with and a vision of the eternal. We forget that whatever is not offered up to the gods is likely to fall into the gutter.

Without consciousness of one's potentials, limitations and necessities, freedom is a fancy concept.