Our personality is a young new thing. It grows throughout our life, but its roots reach into the processes of life and consciousness active in our own being, which are as ancient as life on this planet. Life on the planet is also only an extension of processes active in the cosmos. So in dreams we often sense this primordial past out of which our present self has grown, and frequently depict this meeting as a prehistoric animal. Also: Extinct; outmoded; clumsy; instinctive.
