“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only a half-truth, and must, if it is honest, also admit its inadequacy.”
~ Carl Jung, Collected Works Volume 6.
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“Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture [of the 1960s] beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts, “be-ins,” handicrafts, and organic farming. Sponsoring a profusion of experiments in consciousness, it practiced “expressive individualism,” in Robert Bellah’s words, another Romantic celebration of unrestrained feeling and sensuality.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x74slsd2biicwqwvuxon5dol/bafkreiayukfuzx6fzfquskrz4hwftz7itgzofzp7cirekn7atjqazyskji)
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The Disenchantment of the World:
“[Though a necessary phase of modern development] the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x74slsd2biicwqwvuxon5dol/bafkreiecljmjm4bd3izm4qptoy4hft2vkalqdd7k5qfh6j4oa65jlrxxha)
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The Daemon:
“For centuries we have searched for the right term for this “call.” The Romans named it your genius; the Greeks, your daimon; and the Christians your guardian angel. The Romantics, like Keats, said the call came from the heart, and Michelangelo’s intuitive eye saw an image in the heart of the person he was sculpting. The Neoplatonists referred to an imaginal body, the ochema, that carried you like a vehicle. It was your personal bearer or support. For some it is Lady Luck or Fortuna; for others a genie or jinn, a bad seed or evil genius. In Egypt, it might have been the ka, or the ba with whom you could converse. Among the people we refer to as [Innuit] and others who follow shamanistic practices, it is your spirit, your free-soul, your animal-soul, your breath-soul.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x74slsd2biicwqwvuxon5dol/bafkreiaurxvtuo7tdkl42zqtxwircizm3b4zh6k5t7tuhrecjomghxcfie)
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A Balancing Act:
“Rationality is exclusive: reason is inclusive, balancing rationality with intuition, emotion and imagination. Emotion is not, as some Enlightenment philosophers thought, necessarily an impediment to reason, but an essential component of it.” ... “[I]magination is not an impediment, but, on the contrary, a necessity for true knowledge of the world, for true understanding, and for that neglected goal of human life, wisdom.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x74slsd2biicwqwvuxon5dol/bafkreihu3l4cgo2g4f4t6rpvev7s657ioukytjpy25fx4wp4douef4ebzq)
