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If I assume that God is absolute and beyond all human experience, he leaves me cold. I do not affect him, nor does he affect me. But if I know that he is a powerful impulse of my soul, at once I must concern myself with him, for then he can become important ... ― C. G. Jung, CW 13, par. 74.

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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

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No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you. ― Carl Jung (citing an Alchemist), Letters Vol II, Page 595.

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They showed that two different worldviews could come together. This was beautiful to watch. Both their messages and interactions were compelling, humble, and gracious.

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Being a psychonaut partly means understanding the minds profound relationship to Nature.

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“What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?” ― Carl Gustav Jung

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... the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. ― Carl Jung, Mysterium, para. 778.

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We could define the unconscious as a psychical existence in ourselves of which we are unconscious. — Carl Jung, ETH, Alchemy, Page 224.

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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. ― St. Augustine

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Man must recognize his complicity in the act of evil. — Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 291.

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... the real dangers that threaten our lives... are the present politico-social delusional systems... — C. G. Jung (CW 9i:49)

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..the Westerner who wishes to set out on this way, if he is really serious about it, has all authority against him ― intellectual, moral, and religious. ― C.G. Jung (CW 13, Para. 25.)

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The shadow is the block which separates us most effectively from the divine voice. — Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 544-546

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I'm happy to keep it to myself

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I was reading volume 9.1 (The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious) and came across these lines. I figured I'd share.

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Me when someone asks for the soundbite version of Jung's work

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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. ― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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You should not learn my way but your own. My way leads to me and not to you. - C.G. Jung

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Freud's Beautiful Consolation to a Young Jung

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Here's my basic outline of the psyche in graphical form (inspired by Jung's version). I don't know how exactly right this is but it's what I use to conceptualize my psyche. c = consciousness; u = unconscious; e = ego; s (snake) = shadow-self; p = persona; a = anima; m = masculine; f = feminine

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Jung following his split with Freud

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Eric Weinstein on being more than just a contrarian

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He [Neitzche] expressed it as “God is dead” and he did not realise that in saying this he was still standing within the dogma, for Christ’s death is one of the secret mysteries of Christianity. — Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Page 197.

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“I wait, secretly anxious. I see a tree arise from the sea. Its crown reaches to Heaven and its roots reach down into Hell.” ― Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 300.

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The inconceivable complexity of the underlying primary psychic reality

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I discovered today that Jung made 4 diagrams of the psyche for one of his private seminars given in English in 1925 for the Psychological Club Zurich (which Jung founded in 1916); Psychological Types had just appeared in English and Jung was beginning to attract major international attention.

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Carl Jung is not super popular among the 'rationalists' but he certainly had many rationally grounded psycho-nautic things to say and could arguably be seen as one of the pioneers of many of the psychonautical movements of his day. He's certainly a hero & champion for introverts worldwide.

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Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums. - Carl Jung, Aion, Paragraph 282.

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Carl Jung on Chaos

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“In a politically poisoned and overheated atmosphere the sane and dispassionate discussion of important problems has become well-nigh impossible....” ― Carl Gustav Jung, CW 18 (1936).

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Carl Jung on the book (later called 'Symbols of Transformation') that gave rise to his ultimate break with Freud. This is from the forward to the fourth edition of that book [1950].

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Jung on the Trickster figure from 'The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious'. He wrote this in his 79th year (1954).

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Does anyone else feel like Jordan is the 21st century version of Jung's 'Wise Old Man' Archetype (the Archetype of Meaning)? He seems to be manifesting the same qualities that Jung described the Archetype as having.

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The greatest darkness is always felt through the opposite sex.

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“But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!” ― C.G. Jung

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Jung on the absolute mystery of life

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Pangburn is getting straight up roasted on Twitter lmao. What a tool this guy is.

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The inferior function is practically identical with the dark side of the human personality. ― C. G. Jung, CW 9i, par. 222.

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Jung on the Trickster figure from 'The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious'. Written when Jung was 79 years old (1954).

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Carl Jung on the book (later called 'Symbols of Transformation') that gave rise to his ultimate break with Freud. This is from the forward to the fourth edition of that book [1950].

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The Sanskrit term Upanisad (from upa by and ni-sad sit down) translates to sitting down near, referring to the student sitting down near the teacher while receiving spiritual knowledge. Other dictionary meanings include esoteric doctrine and secret doctrine.

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Man will never understand it

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A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps. -- Carl Jung, CW 9.1, Para 222

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To live oneself means: to be one's own task. - C.G. Jung

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It is this feeling of inevitability about his connection with woman that man dislikes the most. Just when he is sure he has cut himself free of her and is moving about at last in an inner world which is his own, behold, he is in his mother’s lap! ― Carl Gustav Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 118.

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You speak the magic word, and the limitless is finally banished... [excerpt from Carl's Liber Novus]

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Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. - C. G. Jung

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There will be no one who will laugh at me as I laughed at myself. - The Red Book

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I Scraped Wikipedia to Build a Jungian-influenced Social Network Graph [OC]

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One has to be exceedingly careful not to impose one's own will and conviction on the patient. You have to give him a certain amount of freedom. You can't wrest people away from their fate . . . ― C.G. Jung

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He must love his inferiority, even his vices, so that what is degenerate can resume development. Only disobedience against the ruling principle leads out of this condition of undeveloped persistence. - The Red Book

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TIL Jung carved a Latin inscription above the door of his house: “VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.” In English translation, the inscription reads: “Called or not called, the god will be there.” - It's the answer the Delphic Oracle gave the Spartans when they were planning a war against Athens.

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It always begins in yourself and in all things and above all with love. - C. G. Jung, The Red Book

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Carl on the book that gave rise to his ultimate break with Freud (from the forward of the fourth edition [1950])

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Seven more quotes by Carl Jung on Taoism (with the original art this time)

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“Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.” ― C.G. Jung, The Red Book

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By taking over my brain's language centers I believe the white magician (positive spirit-guide/senex archetype) spoke these insights through me. Visually this figure usually takes the form of a smiling Jung for me but in this case the archetype seemed to be interested in using my vocabulary.

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Five quotes by Jung on Taoism

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“The anima is the archetype of life itself.” ― C. G. Jung [CW 9i, par. 66]

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“Individuation is just ordinary life and what you are made conscious of.” ― C.G. Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 442.

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Soul and body are not two things. They are one. ― C.G. Jung, Zarathustra Seminar, Page 355.

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“Neither good nor evil shall be my masters. I push them aside, the laughable survivors, and go on my way again, which leads me to the East. The quarreling powers that for so long stood between me and myself lie behind me.” ― C.G. Jung, The Red Book

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The Red Book and Death

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The soul is everywhere that scholarly knowledge is not. - The Red Book

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This is one of my favorite quotes by Jung and I found some art that goes great with it

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An old Red Book meme I made this New Year's Day (and only ended up posting on FB). The ego-taming component of individuation can certainly be a Herculean task for many.

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“I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind, like the words of the person dearest to me. Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.” ― C. G. Jung, The Red Book

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Be yourself and you are virtue

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Eric Weinstein on the IDW

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If he possessed his desire, and his desire did not possess him, he would lay a hand on his soul, since his desire is the image and expression of his soul. - The Red Book

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10 more quotes taken from the Zarathustra Seminar (I highly recommended the abridged paperback)

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What would Jung say today in response to modern hook-up culture and the modern trivialization of sexual interaction in general? (quote is taken from page 264)

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This is a god whom ye knew not, for mankind forgot it. We name it by its name Abraxas. It is more indefinite still than god and devil. - C.G. Jung

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No individual can boast of having the self: there is only the self that can boast of having many individuals.

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If he possessed his desire, and his desire did not possess him . . .

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Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums. - Carl Jung, Aion, Paragraph 282.

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No man has a spirituality unto himself, or a sexuality unto himself. Instead he stands under the law of sexuality and spirituality. Therefore no one escapes these daimons. - The Red Book

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The Hydra of Existential Chaos

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A Serious Warning From Jung Concerning Ideas

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I had trouble with understanding archetypes for a while and I've noticed that it seems to be one of the most often misunderstood (and for that reason the most criticized) ideas in all of Jung's work. Here's part 1 on archetypes. Hopefully these clear up some of the confused thoughts here on this.

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He who cannot bear doubt does not bear himself. Such a one is doubtful; he does not grow and hence he does not live. Doubt is the sign of the strongest and the weakest. The strong have doubt, but doubt has the weak. - CGJ, The Red Book, Page 301.

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This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant. ― Carl Gustav Jung. This diagram -- titled Systema munditotius (The system of all worlds) -- is symbolically related to the creative, cosmogonic vision revealed in VII Sermones ad Mortuos

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“The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.” ― C. G. Jung, MDR

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The living spirit grows and even outgrows its earlier forms of expression. . . the names and forms which men have given it mean very little. . .

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“Individuation and collectivity are a pair of opposites, two divergent destinies. They are related to one another by guilt.” ― Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Page 452.

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“What thinking cannot solve, life solves ...” - Liber Novus

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Proper Thinking

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Seven more quotes by Jung on Taoism (with the original art this time)

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You should not learn my way but your own. My way leads to me and not to you. - C.G. Jung

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Be yourself and you are virtue

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This wonderful passage from page 236 of The Red Book

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This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant. ― Carl Gustav Jung. This diagram -- titled Systema munditotius (The system of all worlds) -- is symbolically related to the creative, cosmogonic vision revealed in VII Sermones ad Mortuos

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The world comes into being when man discovers it. But he only discovers it when he sacrifices his containment in the primal mother, the original state of unconsciousness. - C. G. Jung

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“No! No! Take my eyes, for my children, but do not blind the Sun! He is the father, the provider–and how shall he watch against harm, or how find us game without his bright eyes? Blind me, and keep him all-seeing.” [Pueblo Myth: The Mother Moon]

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In it [the unconscious] the opposites slumber side by side; they are wrenched apart only by the activity of the conscious mind, and the more one-sided and cramped the conscious standpoint is, the more painful or dangerous will be the unconscious reaction. ― C.G. Jung, CW 14, para. 184.

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I have even become smaller and poorer, but precisely because of my smallness I can be conscious of the nearness of the great. - The Red Book

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Terence McKenna on the coincidentia oppositorum (unity of opposites). It amazes me how truly yin Terence was to Jordan's yang.

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This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant. ― Carl Gustav Jung. This diagram -- titled Systema munditotius (The system of all worlds) -- is symbolically related to the creative, cosmogonic vision revealed in VII Sermones ad Mortuos

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What precisely did Jung mean by this? Source = The Red Book

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By following Elijah (Logos) and Salome (Eros), I follow the two principles inside me and through me in the world, of which I am part. - The Red Book

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... mankind always stands on the brink of actions it performs itself but does not control. The whole world wants peace and the whole world prepares for war... Mankind is powerless against mankind. ― C.G. Jung, CW 9i, Para. 49.

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The tree of life continues its evolution inward and outward — knowing neither vice or virtue it grows toward its one star.

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Eric Weinstein on being more than just a contrarian

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Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you.

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If your beauty grows, the dreadful worm will also creep up you, waiting for its prey. - The Red Book

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The mysteriously dynamic living spirit moves through those in which it lives and by this process evolves and outgrows its prior manifestations.

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“If you get rid of qualities [of the shadow] you don’t like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.” ― Carl Jung, Dream Analysis, Page 53.

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Since the soul animates the body, just as the soul is animated by the spirit, she tends to favour the body and everything bodily, sensuous, and emotional. (CGJ, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Page 472.)

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What do you guys think Jordan's opinion on this would be? As someone who has always had difficulties fitting into our predominant societal institutions, this resonates with me.

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If the subjective consciousness prefers the ideas and opinions of collective consciousness and identifies with them, then the contents of the collective unconscious are repressed. — C. G. Jung, CW 8, para. 425.

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Nietzsche on following the wormy commandments of empiricism

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Jung expands on his understanding of wholeness

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There will be no one who will laugh at me as I laughed at myself. - The Red Book

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Travis Pangburn is now trying to shift blame onto the speakers for his failed project (which cost people thousands). Eric Weinstein warns him: Don't try it. - While Pangburn attempts to circulate lies about guys like Sam; what do the people who defended him have to say now?

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Jung on the Anima (part 2)

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It is this feeling of inevitability about his connection with woman that man dislikes the most. Just when he is sure he has cut himself free of her and is moving about at last in an inner world which is his own, behold, he is in his mother’s lap! ― Carl Gustav Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 118.

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Carl Jung on Chaos

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