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NWT #9: Heaven Up Here

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NWT #9: Heaven Up Here

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Question: Why is "projection" regarded as an unfortunate tendency in psychiatry, but a vital necessity in religion?

Card: 2 of Air Killing Moon Echo & The Bunnymen
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Answer: Projection is seeing in others what one fails to see in oneself. This is the "echo" of one's narcissism; a man's reflexive reproduction in the outside world of his inner self, the "bunnymen". In psychology, refusing to face one's subconscious is tantamount to not really being alive - the "killing moon". This struggle is reflected in the lyric "killing time, unwittingly mine" and the song's refrain: "fate, up against your will". In religion, we give ourselves to another - an idea, a credo, a god - as a surrogate way of giving power to ourselves, just as the moon reflects the sun's light. This is reflected in the lyric, "he will wait until you give yourself to him". This coney-catching, ass-backward way of dealing with one's own shadow or dark side is echoed in the verb form of the word moon, slang for exposing one's nude posterior to a person as a prank.



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