Meaning, Myth and Human Consciousness
“My old Pueblo friend … thought that the raison d’être of his pueblo had been to help their father, the sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and had been looking about without hope for a myth of our own. Now [standing alone in a primeval quiet on a low hill in a Kenyan savanna] I knew what it was, and knew even more: that [humanity] is indispensable for the completion of creation; that, in fact, [a human being] is the second creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence — without which, unheard, unseen, silently giving birth, dying, heads nodding through hundreds of millions of years, it would have gone on in the profoundest night of non-being down to its unknown end. Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and [human beings] found [their] indispensable place in the great process of being.”
— C. G. Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1963, p. 256)
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