South African writer, explorer, and Jungian who wrote about the Kalahari Bushmen and their spiritual world — befriended Jung and served as his representative in the English-speaking world — and was Prince Charles's mentor and godfather to Prince William.
Provided the most influential Western account of Bushman spirituality — arguing that the Bushmen represented the original, pre-ego consciousness that modernity has suppressed — and brought Jung's ideas to British public culture through his Jungian interpretations of African experience.
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