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Superstition
Jump to the following topics:
- What is superstition?
- How are
superstitions created?
What is superstition? It is
any belief which has no basis in fact. The belief usually
pertains to a supposed cause-and-effect relationship, e.g., the
belief that the spilling of salt will cause bad luck.
How are
superstitions created?
- A synchronous event (or a coincidence). For example, in the
chapter regarding synchronicity, there is a story in which one of
Carl Jung's patients was describing a dream regarding a scarab;
suddenly a scarab-like beetle flew into the room. The
synchronicity was so startling that the patient experienced a
breakthrough in her therapy. However, there was nothing special
about the beetle itself; it was merely a trigger for a realization
at that particular moment. If the patient had been
"superstitious," she might then have believed that scarabs (as a
species) are messengers from spirit, and that every
appearance of a scarab is important.
- A fetish. We tend to create religious fetishes and
superstitions on the basis of a spiritual teacher's attire,
mannerisms, hometown, diet, possessions, and other aspects of his
or her personal lifestyle, as though we can acquire the teacher's
wisdom by copying the outer characteristics, although those
characteristics are generally only coincidental.
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