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Beige ⇒Purple being large. Purple ⇒ Modern Man is introjection.

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Beige being the starting point of all animals, purple is essentially the default of all humans. But the difference between a human and another animal is pretty massive. So SD has large gaps and things it doesn't talk about in regards to beige. How else could it be, for otherwise SD would be an account of how all biology and consciousness forms. 

Primitive man at stage purple is extremely subjective and spiritualises scientific occurrences in nature. He invents stories where every outer event and rhythm of nature signifies some sort of religious myth, with the myth being an expression/description of his inner psychic state. The sky just doesn't rain, it rains because a god is urinating. The sun just doesn't set, it represents the fate of some deity.

The psychology of the modern man (roughly stage orange) attains its complexity to the degree to which nature has been despiritualized into objective science. What was once projected into the outer world through myths (e.g. astrology) is now introjected from the outer world into the individual. Man realises the stories he made up were "false" in the literal sense, and only later does he realise that those stories he made are intimate reflections of his psyche. Most humans haven't realised or become conscious of the latter. 

Why did man end up the way he is, all interesting stuff. 

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Hark ye yet again — the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough.

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