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such as the feminine in himself, the banal, the popularised, the irrational and magic – all that Jung consciously rejected but now finds he has to include in his being.
Christopher Hauke • Visible Mind: Movies, modernity and the unconscious
Man has built in himself images as a sense of security – religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man’s thinking, relationships and daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship.
Mary Lutyens • The Life and Death of Krishnamurti
First formulated by the philosopher St Augustine in the closing days of the Roman Empire, ‘original sin’ generously insisted that humanity was intrinsically, rather than accidentally, flawed. That we suffer, feel lost and isolated, are racked with worry, miss our own talents, refuse love, lack empathy, sulk, obsess and hate: these are not merely pe
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And this need for communality of worship is the chief torment of each man individually, and of mankind as a whole, from the beginning of the ages.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Shripriya Mahesh • A Sense of Belonging
‘religious statements without exception have to do with the reality of the psyche and not with the reality of physis’.
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
What is it in our ancient DNA that tells us collectively there is something beyond this physical realm? That we need to ritualize the burial of a body, inter it in a sacred place, and provide items to help it along its journey? Are we wired for a spiritual connection to our lost loved ones? And if so, why? I mean, from a sociological perspective, i
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I believe writers like Danto and Fried glean words from theology because a rich imagination of presence persists in Christianity, developed through efforts to render coherent the church’s own claims about the ongoing presence of Christ in the world.
Natalie Carnes • Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
What broad group or demographic do these stories describe? What is the underlying human need or behavior revealed in these stories? What makes these stories interesting? What are they an example of? Haystack Method Step 2: Aggregating articles into possible themes or topics How is the phenomenon the stories describe affecting multiple industries? W
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