Re: Superstitions evolved to help us survive

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:31:18 -0700 (PDT), "bigfletch8@gmail.com"
<bigfletch8@gmail.com> wrote:


>> "You have to find the trade off between being superstitious and being
ignorant,"
>> he says. By ignoring building evidence that contradicts their long-held ideas,
>> "quite a lot of scientists tend to be ignorant quite often," he says.
>
>You can fool most of the pepole most of the time.

Reminds of Freud telling Jung that "we must make a dogma of this"
(Freudian psychoanalysis). Of course, Jung went his own way and
eventually had to break with Freud.

I'm currently readng "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" by Jung (recorded
and edited by Aniela Jaffe) which are his memoirs. It's amazing the
lengths Jung went to to "know thyself", as it were, exploring his own
psyche.

His father, a protestant minister, was a tragic figure. Even at a
young age, Jung recognized that his father was filled with inner
turmoil. Jung, however, was unable to communicate his insight
that religion is either experience-based or it's worse than nothing
at all. Jung had the same negative attitude toward philosophical
intellectualism and argumentation as he had toward theosophy and faith
... though he benefiitted by Kant at the tender age of seventeen.

In age dominated by materialistic dogmas, Jung was a refreshingly
honest thinker and _doer_  who had many personal experiences with the
so-called paranormal, as well as experiences of the "religious" or
spiritual kind.

Art
http://home.ptd.net/~artnpeg
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