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The Lake of Meaning
“I thought that whenever I was suffering and struggling, it was because I had done something wrong… And the cause-and-effect model of living, even if you accept it, cannot be so simply reduced. Nevertheless, we have developed a culture around this error, along with the false assumption that living in the real world is a punishment instead of a sacrament.”
— Bud Harris PhD
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The intelligence of the dream can only be compared to the other miracles of nature, the ingenious organization of the hereditary codes, for example, or the biological molecular processes, or the development of higher organisms altogether.
That is why, historically, dreams and waking vision have always played a role in all the various religions of the earth.
From this point of view, every person has within the depth of his psyche that which he needs, that is, his own access to the ultimate primordial ground of his being or — in our language — to an experience of God.
He has an opening at the deepest level of his psyche where something eternal can flow in — always unpredictable and always deeply stirring whenever it happens.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
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“We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by…
