@jonmsweeney Girard has conclusive insight to offer on our condition and, furthermore, the crowning authority of the Cross in overcoming the essential complicity between cultures, religion and violence.
@AimeTim end/ His concern, he said, not religion, but its anthropology and, as such, the staggering features of Jesus' murder ultimately revealing the only way out of a revolving hall of projections - our "automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" escalating war of all against all.
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Tweet and quote tweet here: "Conscious people do not scapegoat; unconscious people do almost nothing else." ~ @RichardRohrOFM “We have to discover our shadow. Otherwise we are driven into a world war in order to see what beasts we are." ~ C.G. Jung Quote tweet: Hence, Jung: “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.” And Richo: “The goal of an evolved consciousness is to take its projections back.”