Category: Myth, Archetype, and Spirit
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Jung’s Archetypes: Here is how to recognize their influence
Archetypes are universal, inherited patterns of behavior, thought, and imagery of every human being, regardless of culture, gender, ethnicity or regionality. At the core of Carl Gustav Jung’s revolutionary theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious is the idea that every human being has the same images and symbols deep within their psyche. These images…
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Virtual sanctuaries: Can videogames inspire a divine connection?
Introduction There is a trend in YouTube algorithms that brings upon relaxing, cozy, nostalgic, peaceful video game music to the users. Much like any gamer, I understand that urge that’s a combination of enjoyment in the sound, nostalgia and the emotions those playlists build upon. But I started wondering why do these playlists provide such…
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Why do we need myths even now? Because we’re humans
From Göbekli Tepe to Silicon Valley: The persistence of spiritual thinking Our psychological need for myths makes us spiritual beings, and relatively recent findings in Gobekli Tepe do provide more validity to that claim. The archeological site in contemporary Türkiye was left behind by nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes and is the oldest human settlement that we…