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As scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena. These have slowly lost their symbolic implications. Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree is the life principle of man, no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied." Carl G. Jung - Man and His Symbols (1964)
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:07:18 +0000

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