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Four Days in the Dark

The Myths That Make Us

CHAPTER

The Darkness Retreat

The most mysterious and mystical aspect of the psyche is what Carl Jung called the unconscious. If it were possible to personify the unconscious, we might think of it as a collective human being combining characteristics of both sexes. This God lives in us, is us, and speaks to us every night through our dreams. I am in love with this two million year old being. My life in one sense is my love story with this being. Unfortunately, or rather let us say fortunately, this being dreams.

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