In honor of the Winter Solstice and Christmas I offer this story of the birth of a god recorded by Jung. In this selection from his Red Book, Jung describes in symbolic language the consequences of the death of his god. Jung is overcome by how his god is made small, like an egg which he can keep in his pocket. He is left disoriented by the loss of his god. So Jung takes the egg containing his god, protects it, nurtures it, while it gestates into something new.
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A story by NPR looks at how profit impacts cesarean births. The study shed some light on how money impacts our lives from the very first breath we take.
As reported, researchers hypothesized that doctors may opt for a more lucrative C-section if the mother doesn't know any better, and to find out they compared birth mothers who were also doctors to those who weren't, and looked at how many in each category delivered their children naturally. Doctors, the researchers reasoned, would resist a surgical procedure that wasn't medically necessary more often than anyone with average knowledge.
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Doctors market their services like used car salesmen. They always try to SELL you as much "treatment" as you will buy. My fathe -
Reading the link to the NPR article, I got the impression that there were too many variables for the study to reach any definite c -
I agree that the causes were not entirely clear -- my take was that money is likely a factor, but not necessarily a conscious fact -
Yes, I agree. Point well taken.
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I wish I could say that I was surprised... Thanks for sharing this with us.
