... personifying this phylogenetic component of the psyche as an archaic being, or "the two million-year-old man that is in us all" (C. G. Jung) (p. 3)
Rather than stay at home, I would have us journey far into the past and way over the horizon into cultures remote from the traditions of Western psychology. And rather than restrict ourselves to historical parallels from the relatively recent Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, or Roman past, I would go back much further, back to the hunter-gatherer existence for which our psyches were formed, back to the archetypal foundations of all human experience, back to the hominid, mammalian, and reptilian ancestors who live on in the structures of our minds and brains.
To do this is to discover within Jung's two million-year- old person, a 140 million-year-old vertebrate, which supports our finite existence and animates our dreams. (p. 5)
... our dreams are the only oases of spiritual vitality left to us. They represent our primordial habitat, our last wilderness, and we must protect them with as much fervor as the rain forests, the ozone layer, the elephant, and the whale.
In the meantime, the primordial survivor continues to speak to us in our dreams with the voice and spirit of Osiris. We should not encourage Set to dismember him. But when, inevitably, he does, we must never fail to summon Isis to aid us in reassembling the parts and reuniting them into a whole -- including not just the Freudian phallus, but the sacred and generative phallos. (p. 123)
The Two Million-Year-Old Self, Anthony Stevens, 1993
Osiris is an Egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris
Osiris is an Egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition, resurrection, and regeneration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris
