And yet even when symbol and myth are stripped of their spiritual vitality, they continue to exercise a truly possessive power over their victims in linking faith with collective unconsciousness. For they provide the instant truth and collective identity so appealing to the human lust for saving certitude to counter the authentic agony of doubt and ambiguity hanging over the human situation. Though it appeals to this baser spiritual instinct, fundamentalism is for that very reason likely to continue its present growth
