Hillman

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 18 06:41:56 CST 2000


Can you please give me the page, I'll be glad to reply. 

Richard Fiero wrote:
> 
> At 08:15 AM 12/16/00, Terrance wrote:
> >http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/fonda/dispg.html
> 
> which in part states:
> "The fact that religious statements often conflict with
> observed physical phenomena proves that, in contrast to
> physical perception, the psyche is autonomous and that psychic
> experience is to a certain extent independent of physical data.
> Thus he writes: 'The psyche is an autonomous factor, and
> religious statements are psychic confessions which in the last
> resort are based on unconscious, i.e., on transcendental,
> processes.' These are not visible to the physical senses but
> still influence human consciousness. Thus whenever we speak of
> religious contents we move into a world of image, metaphor, and
> imagination. Thus ideas of god and the like manipulate human
> images and ideas which are dependent upon the human imagination
> and its temporal and spatial locations and cannot helped being
> manipulated and altered several times over the course of human
> history. To Jung all of these images relate to a few basic
> principles or archetypes. And archetypes are unknowable--we can
> only know their manifestations in culture. "
> 
> Okay. What about this?



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