Reply To: Question about a passage from The Hero With a Thousand Faces
either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
I understand it as ‘the coincidence of opposites’ (quote of JC): both polarities experience different perceptions but are the same actually. Compare this with superposition in math and physics. It is the same thing showing two (opposite) sides. The whale story is polarised (the broken mirror) to make it transferable and acceptable.