Reckoning with the Earth

As Carl Jung noted, the intuitive-feeling personality type, which most spiritual seekers are, tends to be pathologically allergic to the facts of ordinary life. Their feelings militate against reckoning with anything so dreadful as ground-level reality. They generally do not think in a systematic, clear manner, but rather they intuitively connect dots and create a web of associations about reality, imagining that this is thinking. Fueled by deep inner feelin...

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