so has it always been. perhaps our biggest error was in thinking that the kind of change that was occurring would continue and advance readily since it was and is clearly better for all.
we underestimated the strength of the tentacles of terror empowering ancient cultural archetypes of dominance, and their resistance to sublimation/transformation.
Jung saw this coming, speaks of it throughout his work. change is never straightforward. it swings like a pendulum. shades of Poe😱
Jung's metaphor for the unconscious is ocean.
unknown depths and power driving emotional storms.
@MLClark
good grief. i just opened Jung, and
“There is a fanatic orgiastic
self-righteousness which is just as base and which entails
just as much injustice and violence as a vice.
At this time, when a large part of mankind is beginning
to discard Christianity, it is worth while to understand
clearly why it was originally accepted "
Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought
C. G. Jung