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The following is an extract from Carl Jung’s final book, Man and His Symbols (1964):

Ghede in actionPin

“Among primitives, ‘possession’ implies that a god or demon has taken over a human body.  Above

[a Haitian] possessed by the god Ghede, who is invariably manifested in this position, legs crossed, cigarette in mouth”

It’s been exactly one week since my last cigarette…