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{1.4a} one must unravel their personal myth

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the goal of jungian psychology is to “unravel one’s personal myth” to craft our values, sense of meaning and pistis.
religion gives us frameworks that protect us from our unconscious, but also helpfully acts as a symbol to give shape to our spiritual experiences. (see {1.4a2} god as the greatest amount of libido.)
- however, it’s “ready-made” – remember {5.2b1d} frameworks create a fixed lens.
when we don’t intentionally engage / work with / develop our personal myth, we unconsciously adopt others’ frameworks or are “tormented by substitute gods” (money, sex, power, etc).
in this way, healing is a “religious problem”.
- the unconscious is the matrix of all primal religious experience, minus the orthodoxy and dogma.
when guided by one’s own myth, life becomes sacred and “the container for unconscious truth” (pg. 130)

created: 2026-05-09-11-42 ✻ modified: 2026-05-09-11-49 ✻ tags:

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