"Scientific reason has excluded man from our world. Man stands isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer intertwined with nature, he is no longer emotionally involved in the natural events that used to be of symbolic importance to him. Thunder is no longer God's voice, nor is lightning his avenging cannonball. The river is not inhabited by a spirit, the tree does not represent human life, the snake is not the embodiment of wisdom, and the mountain is not inhabited by some great demon. Things no longer speak to us, and we do not speak to things as we do to stones, springs, plants or animals.
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Author
Carl Gustav JungAll Translations
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Scientific reason has excluded man from our world. Man stands isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer intertwined with nature, he is no longer emotionally involved in the natural events that used to be of symbolic importance to him. Thunder is no longer God's voice, nor is lightning his avenging cannonball. The river is not inhabited by a spirit, the tree does not represent human life, the snake is not the embodiment of wisdom, and the mountain is not inhabited by some great demon. Things no longer speak to us, and we do not speak to things as we do to stones, springs, plants or animals.
""A tudományos ész kirekesztette az embert világunkból. Az ember elszigetelten áll a kozmoszban. Már nincs beleszövődve a természetbe, érzelmileg már nem vesz részt a természeti eseményekben, amelyek hajdanában szimbolikus jelentőségűek voltak számára. A mennydörgés már nem Isten hangja, a villám sem az ő bosszúálló ágyúgolyója. A folyóban nem lakozik szellem, a fa nem jelent emberi életet, a kígyó nem a bölcsesség megtestesítője, a hegyet sem lakja valamilyen nagy démon. A dolgok sem beszélnek már hozzánk, és mi sem beszélünk a dolgokkal úgy, mint kövekkel, forrásokkal, növényekkel vagy állatokkal."