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Originally Posted by sworkhard
I think it's more likely this is just one more case of him mapping too much meaning onto an ancient or popular tradition or story, something he does routinely. When he starts going on about the meaning he finds in different tales, he starts to remind me of Deepak Chopra. Sam Harris called him on this tendency, and he basically said the difference between what he says and what the New Age movement produces is that he's more careful.
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Archetypes aren't confined to New Age thinking. People like Joseph Campbell were pretty well regarded thinkers. I think there's value in recognizing unconscious universals in human myths and stories, and ardent atheists like Harris go too far when they reject that thinking out of hand as so much mystical nonsense.