Danes discover 9,000-year-old skeletons with a strange history

Excavation reveals that the bones of the dead were sorted and categorised before burial

(Source: Cphpost.dK ) – Danish archaeologists have unearthed a burial site in an ancient town in southern Jordan that suggests the dead were not buried until they had decomposed to skeletal remains. The skeletons were then dismantled and bones of similar types were buried together

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Putin offers Russian refuge to European Jews facing anti-Semitism

(Source: RT) – As a rising wave of anti-Semitic attacks engulf Europe, the Russian president has offered European Jews protection by proposing that they immigrate to Russia.

In a meeting with members of the European Jewish Congress in the Kremlin, the president of the congregation complained to Vladimir Putin about the rising anti-Semitism across Europe that has manifested itself in an increased number of attacks against Jews.

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Carl Jung: I would abandon the term “Gnostic” without compunction were it not a swearword in the mouths of theologians

Here is a letter by Carl Jung from 1954 that he had written to a friend. In it he states why he uses the term Gnostic which is in opposition to the carl_jung_lettertheologians of his day. Jung said these theologians fraudulently offers his (limited) God-concept to the naive listener as a special revelation. This underhand way of doing holy business I fling in the teeth of theologians of all colours.”

To Erich Neumann

Dear Neumann, 30 January 1954

Best thanks for your friendly letter.

I was just writing to Hull, who is to insert a passage on your work in the English edition of Symbole der Wandlung.

The transition to the New Year has not passed without difficulties: liver and intestine revolted against the too oily hotel cooking in Locarno, though this had its good side in that my holiday was 1-1/2 weeks longer than expected.

I have already penetrated a good way into your “Kulturentwicklung” and shall be able to read further as soon as the mountain of letters that have accumulated during my absence is cleared away.

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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors

“Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The carl jung quote on ancestors“newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components.

Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character and find no proper place in what is new, in things that have just come into being. That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things.” – By Carl Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections