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Irrespective of our individual expectations of what happens\u2014if anything\u2014in the \u201cgreat beyond,\u201d we pay a price, here and now, if we fail to come to grips with the reality of our own physical mortality. As Jung said, \u201cDeviation from the truths of the blood begets neurotic restlessness. \u2026 [It] begets meaninglessness, and the lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not yet begun to comprehend.\u201d (Collected Works, Vol. 8, \u00b6 815) \u201cThe truths of the blood\u201d are those experiential realities that we inherit\u2014both genetically and psychically\u2014when our psyche enters our physical body. Due to our cultural taboo against reflecting on death, we are pressured to ignore our inherited wisdom, and our individual psyche falls out of step with the psyche of the Collective Unconscious. Jung\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irrespective of our individual expectations of what happens\u2014if anything\u2014in the \u201cgreat beyond,\u201d we pay a price, here and now, if we fail to come to grips with the reality of our own physical mortality. 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