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Man cannot remain well psychologically, let alone socially, if he loses contact with the unconscious and its symbolic and mythological life.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
The greater the man, the more subject he is to the ravaging effects of the negative side of this reality.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
There is no painless way of coming into contact with spiritual reality.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
Myth can act almost like throwing open a window to reveal reality that is not being touched by the rational, Aristotelian approach.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
Psychologically and spiritually, whether one calls them complexes or spiritual beings, they can be either upbuilding, creative forces, or negative and destructive influences.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
Almost any reality which we fail to confront and deal with in some way, will try to possess us. This is as true of autonomous complexes or spirits as of germs and bacteria.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
In the early years of Christianity the Church was known to be a place to bring those who were sick, either mentally or physically... A vital Christianity still has this power.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
One of the most important ways of understanding the unconscious—indeed, as Freud saw it, the royal road to discovering the nature of its contents—is the dream. And what is a dream but a series of images that tell a story?
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
Myth and ritual act as transformers in bringing people the value of spiritual reality, just as an electrical transformer... The dream also provides the same kind of stepped-down encounter.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
Even the church, which in ages past was custodian of man's myths, has turned its back upon myth, has forgotten its meaning, and has lost the ability to interpret and use it.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
The unconscious reveals its meaning imaginatively, through symbols and images, and it speaks... a basically mythological language.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)
How seldom do we look at the mythological pattern as it moves deep within the lives of individuals, prompting them to meet fate, to meet events following almost exactly the meaning outlined by the myth.
Myth, History & Faith (1974)