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The problem confronting the modern church is... to discover this new, and yet very old way of looking at reality mythologically. This is the Platonic, the psychological, the Christian way of expressing spiritual reality, through images and symbols, and it is the only way of approaching this realm as a living reality. Otherwise it must be broken down into elements and is dead.

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One of the most important ways of understanding the unconscious—indeed, as Freud saw it, the royal road to discovering the nature of its contents—is the dream. And what is a dream but a series of images that tell a story?

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The Eastern or Greek Orthodox tradition has never turned its back upon the dream or the myth.... it has continued to believe that spiritual reality is mediated to men through mythological images in story and actions, and in the pictorial representation of the icon.

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The unconscious reveals its meaning imaginatively, through symbols and images, and it speaks... a basically mythological language.

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