@ElfLord
It helped me shift my thinking away from

'humans have these bunch of inherent stuff a to them'

To

'humans are a conglomeration of wetware processes that are just adapting stuff on the fly'

@ElfLord
I find the concept of shadow people soooo facinating as a kid who took too much DPH as a foolhardy high schooler

@CursedConfetti How foolhardy of you! haha I love the concept of shadows too but I only know about the socionics shadow theory. The one that's like when we're unhealthy, we retreat into our shadow personality which can be the opposite of who we really are. Interesting stuff...

@ElfLord
This is what I mean

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_person

To Jung, he theorized that there is a collective unconscious memory that attributes to stuff like that

@CursedConfetti That is so fucking fascinating I read the whole thing. There's neuroscience to back it up. I think myths in cultures around the world have a psychological component. Like great myths like the great flood from the Bible.

@ElfLord
Yeah and the fear of dark, fire, having a messenger to the spirits, personified death

Programming

Prly early pantheons came from similar instinct and pattern recognition as a way of explaining things

@ElfLord
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious

@CursedConfetti Jung was such a genius. A lot of this is still over my head but I'm really interested in it. I think I read somewhere that he just figured out all these ideas based on hours and hours of patients in therapy sessions with him. He started to see human patterns.