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29: Carl Jung • Seven Sermons to the Dead (Part III)

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The Confluence of Factors

When an artist feels the compulsion to create such a significant work, it's never from one isolated motivation. For example, if i want to write a brilliant song, only being motivated by the idea of making a quick buck is not going to cut it. In young's case, this cludes his obsessive interest in trying to understand gnostic scriptures and his intellectual pursuit in connecting modern psychology to ancient traditions. This is an impressive confluence of factors that begins to compel something out of jung to the surface. But the secret ingredient here is the factor e haven't much explored: Young's personal relationship to religious experiences at this point in our study. We might assume he must have been raised a devout

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