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Religious conversion and the mystical experience

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The unconscious is a living, and therefore creative process, and ... it does not need any pathological repression to release its creative functions.Carl Jung

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Glenn, M.L. Religious conversion and the mystical experience. Psych Quar 44, 636–651 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01563005

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