A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Carl JungShrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl JungThe need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.
Carl Jung