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Every civilised human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deepest levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back even to the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, shows countless archaic traits.

C.G. Jung

‘Organism’…means a self-regulating system of processes tending to maintain themselves, i.e. to maintain the life of the individual or species. But the processes of the organism do not of themselves maintain life; without the continuous influence of the environment the internal organic processes cannot sustain life for more than a moment, their tendency being to break down organic material towards more stable states.

Lancelot Law Whyte ¹²