"It was therefore something of a discovery to find that during the unconscious state of sleep intervals occur, called ‘dreams’, which occasionally contain scenes having a not inconsiderable resemblance to the motifs of mythology. For myths are miracle tales and treat of all those things which, very often, are also objects of belief. In the everyday world of consciousness such things hardly exist; that is to say, until 1933 only lunatics would have been found in possession of living fragments of mythology. After this date the world of heroes and monsters spread like a devastating fire over whole nations, proving that the strange world of myth had suffered no loss of vitality during the centuries of reason and enlightenment. If metaphysical ideas no longer have such a fascinating effect as before, this is certainly not due to any lack of primitivity in the European psyche, but simply and solely to the fact that the erstwhile symbols no longer express what is now welling up from the unconscious as the end-result of the development of Christian consciousness through the centuries. This end-result is a true antimimon pneuma, a false spirit of arrogance, hysteria, wooly-mindedness, criminal amorality, and doctrinaire fanaticism, a purveyor of shoddy spiritual goods, spurious art, philosophical stutterings, and Utopian humbug, fit only to be fed wholesale to the mass man of today. That is what the post-Christian spirit looks like."
“Collective contents, such as religious, philosophical, political and social conflicts, select projection-carriers of a corresponding kind—Freemasons, Jesuits, Jews, Capitalists, Bolsheviks, Imperialists, etc. In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets. Our earthly world is split into two halves, and nobody knows where a helpful solution is to come from.”
„Sotva se nás nevědomí jen dotkne, a už jsme jím – stáváme se nevědomi sebe sama. To je ono prastaré nebezpečí, instinktivně známé a obávané primitivním člověkem, který osamocen stojí tak blízko k Plérómatu. Jeho vědomí je dosud nejisté, sotva se drží na nohou. Je doposud dětinské, sotva se vynořilo z prapůvodních vodstev. Vlna nevědomí se přes něj může kdykoli převalit a on pak rázem zapomene, kým byl, a dělá prapodivné věci. Primitivové se právě proto bojí nezvladatelných emocí, neboť se pod jejich tíhou láme vědomí, čímž je dán průchod posedlosti. Veškeré úsilí člověka se tudíž vždy zaměřovalo na konsolidaci vědomí. V tom vězel smysl rituálu a dogmat; ony byly přehradami a hradbami, které měly za úkol zadržet nebezpečí nevědomí, nástrahy duše.”
“Collective contents, such as religious, philosophical, political and social conflicts, select projection-carriers of a corresponding kind—Freemasons, Jesuits, Jews, Capitalists, Bolsheviks, Imperialists, etc. In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets. Our earthly world is split into two halves, and nobody knows where a helpful solution is to come from.”
“Consequently, there are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal. That it should enter anyone’s head to educate them to normality is a nightmare for the former, because their deepest need is really to be able to lead “abnormal” lives.”
Vlado Šolc
