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The War Against Nature
Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.
~ Paulo Freire
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The more complex a content is, the less it can be grasped and measured by consciousness, whose structure is so one sided that it can attain to clarity only over a limited area. In this respect consciousness is built analogously to the eye.
~ Eric Neumann
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Originally, consciousness did not possess enough free libido to perform any activity, plowing, harvesting, hunting, waging war, etc.-of its own “free will,” and was obliged to invoke the help of the god who “understood these things.
By means of ceremonial invocation, the ego activated the “help of the god” and thus conducted the flow of libido from the unconscious to the conscious system.
The progressive development of consciousness assimilates the functional gods, who go on living as qualities and capacities of the conscious individual who plows, harvests, hunts, and wages war as and when he pleases.
It is evident, however, that when the conscious manipulation is not successful, as in war, the war god continues to act as a functional god, even today.
~ Jung
