"Menticide"

The killing of the spirit

Joost Meerloo

Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion. For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him: first, the thing he has no wish to be (the shadow); second, the thing he is not (the “other,” the individual reality of the “You”); and third, his psychic non-ego (the collective unconscious).

Carl Jung - CW16 par. 470

"Magic"

We are very much afraid of the word magic, it has a bad name, for its meaning has degenerated and it has a purely superstitious sound in our ears. But magical was originally simply psychical, the ancients did not know of the existence of the psyche, so not being able to call anything psychic they used the word magic.

Carl Jung - ETH Lecture XI Page 71

"Spirituality"

The term “spirituality” is taken from the Latin SPIRITUALIS, itself from SPIRITUS (spirit). That gives us in the language of the “gods”: SI (light), PIRIG (brilliant) and the verbal form US (being near, to follow, attend), thus SI-PIRIG-US “to follow the brilliant light”.

Anton Parks

We all just want to play, eat good food, listen to tunes, and once we die, absolutely never, ever return.

Congjing Yu

Panentheism

If you believe in pantheism and take all of our universe away there’s nothing left, no God. If you believe in panentheism and you take everything away there’s still some transcendence left.

Stefan Karl

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Edward Snowden

The reason science is our best hope for truth is that it takes into account our shortcomings and tries to correct them. … And so I would also say that the democratic constitutional state is our best hope to curb some of our moral shortcomings. … And precisely because people with power and interests will not always tell the truth, it is important that there is a free press that attempts to expose those lies.

Tim Fransen