Spinoza's argument against free will was not to say there was nothing to be done about changing one's experience and of those around you. Consider the following proposition: — Valentinus
↪Tom Storm Quite true. In my own case part of the reason was that I considered that Christian morality was not good enough or detailed enough for me. — Ken Edwards
Carl Jung spoke of the importance of dreams and those coming from the collective unconscious. I do believe that the idea of the collective unconscious is useful for thinking about as a source from which images and stories evolve. — Jack Cummins
It is possible to get carried away with these myths but it does present a radical alternative way of seeing than we are accustomed to and it does give some hint of a possibility of conscious evolution. It is hard to know what the idea of conscious evolution does mean exactly. I have read a little of Henri Bergson. — Jack Cummins
I think that the better question would be is what evidence do you have to suggest that Jung was a 'crank'? I think it is difficult to measure his ideas and probably the only way you could do this would be to measure the way in which his ideas or Jungian therapy have a positive impact on people's lives. — Jack Cummins
What I don't understand is the way in which the whole area of religious thinking has to come down to those who see the central issues viewing in literal traditional ways(Christian or other views), or the other alternatives of atheism. Both seem so extreme. — Jack Cummins
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