07/10/2023
“One reason people are suffering today to an almost intolerable degree is that their unmediated suffering has no conscious connection with its archetypal ground. Cut off from that ground, they feel they are alone, and their suffering becomes meaningless. They do not realize that what they are suffering exists within creation itself, and that the gods and goddesses of religion and mythology have been there before. . . . The suffering itself can easily become gilt-edged, self-dramatized, when we lack the god or goddess at the center. To sympathize with that suffering in us or in others beyond a certain point is to condone the arrogance, and to condone the arrogance is to paralyze the sufferer.”
Marion Woodman
