Jung...

A few days ago, on a sort of whim, I have been having the desire to acquire knowledges of various kinds, first, the history channel's show on the dark ages, greeks has interested me, which perhaps brought back something that was always on the edge of my conciousness but never thoroughly explored, mythology, and how it relates to astrology, and the deep meanings of either.
So, on a whim I checked out a book on Norse Mythology, and a book on Jungian psychology, which I had always considered one of the most logical approaches of the unconciousness I'd ever seen, and has influenced me deeply, many being revisted many times, each time my understanding helping me more with it.
Now I'm up late and night having read a bit on Jung, and hoping to not forget a few things I've read. The first, being about anima/animus. The idea is that males have an anima in them, representing all the parts of them that are repressed, and different. An introvert's anima is extroverted, a prude's anima is deviant, ect. It represents all of the parts of that we wish to be, that perhaps we need to develop. It is the opposite of us, whose purposes are often revealed to us through our dreams.
The other, newer Idea I've had is how it relates of Jung's archetypes, a concept I always had trouble with, but now I understand it a bit better. One may think of ants, creatures who's parents did not teach them the ways of being an ant, or a bee, who is able to tell other bees the location of flowers through a complex dance. These things are instinctual, not taught.
Humans, having perhaps developed from apes, clearly has many deeper instincts, as related to survival. One may then think of the development of "conciousness", that ability to be aware of oneself, to think, to recognize onself as a seperate entity, as the first divorcing of the basic instincts to survive. One who grows crops and raises animals no longer needs to listen to or feel nature as the animals do, or seek move away from a storm if one has a sturdy dwelling.
Now, one should then think of mythology. For a long time, when christians persecuted the pagan religions, one who worshiped the gods was simply worshiping false Idols, or the devil. No body considered that the gods had any deeper meaning beyond that. In fact, the followers of the pagan religions could scarcely tell you that this story symbolized rebirth, or destruction of evil, or anything like that. People, lacking such a rational perspective, perhaps did'nt need an interpretation in order for them to intuitively understand the meanings behind them.
Jung writes of two stories. One, of a little girl who draws a complex series of dreams that are very old, obscure, and with deep meanings. Another, of a tribe who each morning spit on their hands and hold them out to the sun.
The girl did not come up with the stories on her own, they must have sprang from somewhere. The tribe, when asked of the meaning behind their rituals, could not answer. Yung felt it obvious that each morning they offered a piece of their soul to god.
It appears the man has practiced such deeply symbolic myths long before he could rationalize them, Indeed perhaps rational thought hampers their creation.
I think, that perhaps modern humanity is coming upon this realization...
1. First let me point to the growing acceptance that there can be no single "correct" religion, in the sense that followers of all other religions are doomed to hell,
2. That religion and mythology itself, such a primitive and powerful driver of all of humanity and it's unconcious symbols, is far from worthless.

The result of these forces are varied and many. First, there is a return to many pagan religions, with Wicca a growing and powerful force. Similarly, there has started to again be a few followers of the roman and greek gods, who hold ceremonies once again in the parthenon, and some people also are returning to the old norse gods. Rennasance writers also took to looking at these ancient myths as a source of inspiration; indeed the deepest and most ancient struggles of mankind would be the source for all writing that moves us with emotion.

One must wonder, indeed, if the overpowering conciousness we've developed, supressing our unconcious, and often the messages of our dreams, will ever come to an apex, that our unconcious, completely overwhelmed and marginalized, will leave our concious self with no nature, no source of life or energy for which to sustain ourselves with.

Indeed it appears as if the tree of knowledge which humans have bit from, our conciousness, is starting to overwhelm our roots and intuition.

Or, maybe the tree of life remains as strong, and remains dormant, ready to propel us, with the tree of knowledge, to a greater plane, where the unconcious, and the newly developed consciousness, can coexist, and therefore allow us to direct lifeforce with form, an ability currently only known by the masters of old.