Why I go overtly

[Myra Bronstein]

I didn't know Ed was an Ernest Becker fan. Me too and I heartily endorse his 'Denial of Death' recommendation. Also 'Escape from Evil' which is shorter but a summation of all his writings and published postumously. There is considerable 'Jungian' expertise on this forum. In my view, Becker builds on Jung in a thoroughly accessible fashion and to the point almost of a fulfillment of the Freud-Jung continuum. Some find his stuff pretty bleak with its ruthlessly honest probing and exposing of core personal motivations; I found it marvellously liberating - the very embodiment of that hoary old biblical cliché, 'the truth will set you free', in fact, except that it does not require blind faith in anything.

Oops.Hope nobody got the wrong idea there.

I've just found out that the above is chiseled in stone in the entrance Hall of the CIA's Langley HQ.

Duh.

Is that REALLY true?

What it actually says at Langley is "the truthiness will set you freeiness."