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Once Upon a Time and the Crisis of "Nothing But"

from Myth Matters Season 2 by Dr. Catherine Svehla

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Everything is banal, everything is 'nothing but;' and that is the reason that people are neurotic. They are simply sick of the whole thing, sick of that banal life, and therefore they want sensation. They even want a war; they all want war..." C. G. Jung from "The Symbolic Life," CW 18.

According to Jung, most Western individuals suffer from a pervasive soul sickness, a sickness created by the one-sided nature of Western consciousness. The single-minded pursuit of "reason" has driven the deep need for wonder, meaning, and mystery into the unconscious and given rise to a dangerous literalism, and a world in which the lines between fact and fiction, truth and lie, are collapsing.

The one-sidedness begins with the mistaken notion that one makes a choice between two opposing options. Both impulses will direct your life as this is beyond your control, and the choice is not "between" reason and imagination, the rational and irrational, fact and fantasy. The choice is to become more conscious of all of it, to learn to live with nuance and ambiguity, and live the mystery in you, that is you.

This choice is available to any person of intelligence and heart, who hears the invitation in "once upon a time" and begin a conscious quest for the symbolic life.
A transcript of this episode is available at www.mythicmojo.com.Thanks for listening!

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from Myth Matters Season 2, released January 16, 2020

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Dr. Catherine Svehla Fort Collins, Colorado

Storyteller, scholar, artist, & desert activist with a PhD in mythology & depth psychology.

Myths & stories contain the wisdom of the human race. I want to know how we can keep the mystery in life alive? How can myths connect us to a larger sphere of being & meaning?

Many of these tracks are Myth in the Mojave programs that first aired online on Radio Free Joshua Tree.

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