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The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
To the extent that he sees himself as a scientist, he cannot affirm the existence of God and so cannot ‘believe’. But while he agrees that we cannot find proof of God's existence, we can have intuitions and feelings that assert God's reality at another level. As a thinker who takes non-rational functions seriously, Jung does not ignore the claims o
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and religions are systems of healing for psychic illness. This is especially true of the two greatest religions of humanity, Christianity and Buddhism.
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masculine =
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Jung suggests that there is need of a second ‘coming’, not of Christ as such, but of his adversary, the antagonist.
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He says that in his professional writings he uses the term ‘the unconscious’, but is aware that he ‘might equally well speak of “God” or “daimon” if I wished to express myself in mythic language’.
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While Jung does not deny the existence of an ultimate, metaphysical reality, he is sceptical about our ability to know it.
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Jung's seminal essay ‘Answer to Job’ is an impassioned plea for allowing more of the feminine into our image of the divine.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life – that is to say, over thirty-five – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of the
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light = spirit, and feminine = darkness = matter.
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That is what fundamentalism is, in one respect: the junk food of the spirit.
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