Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanized.
Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him.
Thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree means a man's life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom, and no mountain still harbours a great demon.
Neither do things speak to him nor can he speak to things, like stones, springs, plants, and animals.
He no longer has a bush-soul identifying him with a wild animal.
His immediate communication with nature is gone forever. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 95
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