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Carl Jung somewhere has written that the function of religion is to protect us from an experience of God. Some fifty percent of the mythic tales in Ovid's Metamorphoses are of characters, ill-prepared, who were unfavorably transformed by encounters with divinities, the full blast of whose light they were unready to absorb.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
THE INNER REACHES OF OUTER SPACE
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