John Ege
1 min readJun 5, 2024

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Nice article overall. There is a limit to rationalism. The brain has two hemispheres for a reason, one logical and one abstract. You need to oars rowing at the same speed to go straight. A bird needs both wings active to fly straight. Humans need both the rational and the spiritual working together for optimum outcomes.

You mention Jung, and I suspect few people will accept that Jung was much more spiritual, or metaphysical, minded than the experts on him allow. He had a Near Death Experience. His treatise on Philemon, the Red Book, takes consciousness to another level existence.

Science claims to be rational, only attending to things I can measure, and yet it ignores its own irrationality. You will not find the subconscious or superconscious captured in a CAT scan or MRI. You cannot physically measure the Id, the Ego, or the Superego, but the church of psychology acknowledges that Trinity.

If rationalism is crumbling, it's because it has excised spirituality, from which science was born. All the early scientists, Bacon, Emanuel Swedenborg, believed in spiritual essence to life, and from this was born the scientific method to measure that. Even authors like Michael Gazzaniga, in his book 'Who's in Charge,' recognize if you tell people they have no free will, their behavior trends bad, but if you tell people they have choices, their behaviors trend good.

Too materialistic is bad. Too spiritual is bad. We, humans, live Goldilocks Zone of every domain.

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John Ege
John Ege

Written by John Ege

LPC-S, Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.

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