68. "...so what Jung thought, his idea was something like this:
that at the beginning of time people were unconscious.
and that consciousness emerged with all of its catastrophes, consciousness of death, for example.
and one of way out of the burden of consciousness was to return to unconsciousness. you can do that with alcohol, you can do that by being dependent, you can do that by failing to grow up. you refuse the burden of consciousness by becoming unconscious again.
but there's another way for it, which is to become even more conscious.
so the idea would be, a little bit of consciousness is like an illness, but if you can expand that consciousness upwards enough, then it starts to become something that is its own cure.
and that partly what your goal is while you suffer through life is to heighten your consciousness to the point where everything gets integrated enough so that that's proper medication for the disease of self-consciousness."