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79: Bernardo Kastrup – Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

The Sacred Speaks

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Is Conscensus Conscious?

The intellect is one of the side effects of symbolic thinking that has emerged in homo sapient sapience about 30 thousand years ago. Myths have been around for as long as homo sapients has had culture, has had the ability to think symbolically and capture e their intuitions in a narrative. And i think that's why myths are much older than rational reasoning. It operates through similarities, similarities of evoked meaning. So when we say god created adam and eve from his rib, and Eve took a bite of the tree of knowledge, and then they were expelled from paradise, what is he saying? At least that's the mode of thinking that i believe was happening in in

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