Why high hills have a high suicide rate

School girls in Churan Oveer village in Chitral | Mohammad Ali, White Star
School girls in Churan Oveer village in Chitral | Mohammad Ali, White Star

Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic ? that is, divided against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors, and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from outside, they would have been spared this division within themselves.
? Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst

When winter arrives, the village folk come down from the mountains to their villages, bringing back cattle fattened on the highland grass. Soon there will be snow, confining them to their homes. They will slaughter an ox or a goat and salt and dry its carcass ? as part of?Nasalo, their winter festival. This, along with fruit dried and grain harvested in summer months, will sustain them through a long, cold winter.

But before the villagers move into closed indoors, they must exorcise evil spirits that have moved in while they were away. .. read complete story here

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