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How to Stop Wasting Your Life – Carl Jung as Therapist

Academy of Ideas

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The Pueblo in Mythology

The seeker is trying to run away from the banality of their existence. They are seeking to fill the void of emptiness that comes from living a meaningless life. Yung was not gesting that we all adopt the pueblo in mythology. Rather, his point is that many people suffer because their life makes no sense. And the task for those who want to be free of anxiety or depression is to discover this sense. We must, in other words, find a way to justify our existence so that, like the puebloin, can believe that our life is meaningful.

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