- C. G. Jung, the great doctor of the soul and one of the
most inspired psychologists of the twentieth century, had incredible insight
into what is currently playing out, both individually and collectively,
in our modern-day world. He writes, "If, for a moment, we look at
mankind as one individual, we see that it is like a man carried away by
unconscious powers."
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- We are a species carried away -- "possessed"
by -- and acting out, the unconscious. Jung elaborates, "Possession,
though old-fashioned, has by no means become obsolete; only the name has
changed. Formerly they spoke of 'evil spirits,' now we call them 'neurosis'
or 'unconscious complexes.'" To condescendingly think that we, as
modern-day, rational people, are too sophisticated to believe in something
as primitive as demons is to have fallen under the spell of the very evil
spirits we are imagining are nonexistent. What the ancients call demons
are a psychic phenomena which compel us to act out behaviors contrary to
our best intentions.
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- To quote Jung, "the psychic conditions which breed
demons are as actively at work as ever. The demons have not really disappeared
but have merely taken on another form: they have become unconscious psychic
forces."
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