“In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.”
“Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of danger is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.”
“In the United Staes there is even a pathos of inverted emphasis: the goal is not to grow old but to remain young.”
“In a word, the first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche to where the difficulties really reside and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e. give battle to the nursury demons of this local culture) and breakthrough to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of what C.G. Jung has called ’the archetypal images’. This is the process known to Hindu and Bhuddist philosophy as viveka, ‘discrimination’.”
Nietzche: “In our sleep and in our dreams we pass through the whole thought of earlier humanity. I mean, in the same way that man reasons in his dreams, he reasoned when in waking state many thousands of years… The dream carries us back inot earlier states of human culture, and affords us a means fo understanding it better.”
“Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream”