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Send Me a Note In this episode: I discuss the psychic split brought on by the experience of the modern world and the need for a connection with the soul and the mythic dimension of life. Sources for quotes and more: 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn; Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend; Chapter 12: Biographical; Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin) 'The Secret of the Golden Flower' by Richard Wilhelm & C.G. Jung'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung ...
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