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thinking aloud conversations on the

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leading edge of knowledge and discovery

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with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove

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let me ask you this question as

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just I have sort of a leaning toward the

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work of Carl Jung and I'm pretty sure

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Jung would say looking back at the

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polytheistic religions that these are

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all projections from the human psyche

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they are archetypal energies we're not

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really talking about autonomous entities

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except to the extent that archetypes

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themselves function autonomously within

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the collective unconscious right well

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from the modern polytheist review points

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we understand deities spirits heroes etc

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whatever their classification is to be

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independent individual volitional

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noncorporeal beings

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archetypes are something that come into

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the picture but oftentimes think of it

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this way if you are dealing with Zeus

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and you say oh well there's a thunder

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God in another culture in his name is

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Thor or there's a head of pantheon deity

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in another culture and his name is ball

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you can you can kind of look at those

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archetypal jobs but that doesn't

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actually get you into relationship with

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the deity that's what modern polytheists

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are interested in is developing

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relationship erson all relationship

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right much the way a Christian might

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want to have a personal relationship

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with Christ right or to put it in kind

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of entirely human terms that everyone

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can probably understand you could go to

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your corner drugstore and deal with

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pharmacists but it's much nicer to deal

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with you know George Jones who has three

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children and enjoys cricket games and

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that kind of a thing on that that's

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where the real connections come in it's

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it's some people in modern polytheism

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and in modern paganism and so forth do

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deal with deities on a strictly

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archetypal level I would consider myself

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being kind of a a mega

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all we feast the more Polly the better

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I consider archetypes to be a whole

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other class of divine beings okay on so

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they they just the the feature of them

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is that they are a role rather than an

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individual personality you can relate to

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the role you can get a lot out of

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relating to the role and the role can

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synchronize with other types of deities

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so father God could be Zeus Thunder God

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could also be Zeus mother goddess could

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be any number of things many number of

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goddesses from a number of cultures what

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what those do this is this is I think

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one of the major disagreements that that

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a lot of modern polytheists would have

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with unions and Joseph Campbell and and

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and various others is that it's the

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particularity if the individual

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characteristics that really are what you

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build a relationship on just as with any

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human relationship