Why Do We Need A Symbolic Life?
Digital Jung
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The Purpose of the Symbolic Life
We have a need for some guiding purpose that lifts us out of the morass of our competing impulses and needs, he says. "When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything," white buffalo woman tells lacota when giving them sacred pipe to smoke. Our lives are under girded by the ideas by which we live, beliefs that we hold and aspirations after which we strive; quality of those will determine relationship with ourselves, with others and with cosmos in which we live. The ravages of climate change are just one example of the terriblere action of nemesis when we have transgressed the demands of idos.
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