We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. - Carl Jung

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Finché non prenderai coscienza l'inconscio governerà la tua vita.
E tu lo chiamerai destino.

Modern man does not understand how much his “rationalism” (which has destroyed his capacity to respond to numinous symbols and ideas) has put him at the mercy of the psychic “underworld.” He has freed himself from “superstition” (or so he believes), but in the process he has lost his spiritual values to a positively dangerous degree. His moral and spiritual tradition has disintegrated, and he is now paying the price for this break-up in worldwide disorientation and dissociation.