‘Does he believe in God, or doesn't he?’ The answer has to be ‘yes and no’, or ‘yes, but’.

Science and philosophy have replaced religion as mainstream ‘belief systems’ of modernity; religion, based on an outdated and untranslated mythology, cannot hope to compete with modern systems of knowing; Christian religion has been based on the authority of tradition, and modern people do not care for tradition. Religion can only mean something

That is what fundamentalism is, in one respect: the junk food of the spirit.

So much evil has accumulated in the Western psyche because we have been identified with the good and the light for too long.

Soul generates meaning, turns events into experiences and gives us a reason for being.

The Incarnation did not stop with Christ, but continues in and through us, and to understand our relation to the infinite is to realise the incarnation as an ongoing and continuing process.

In [the Christian West] grace comes from elsewhere; at all events from outside. Every other point of view is sheer heresy. Hence it is quite understandable why the human psyche is suffering from undervaluation. Anyone who dares to establish a connection between the psyche and the idea of God is immediately accused of ‘psychologism’ or suspected of

further: institution and church can block the way to the kingdom of God, and this might be a sign of Jung's residual Protestantism, and disrespect for papal authority, hierarchy and institutional power.

The real tension between depth psychology and Christianity is that whereas theology idealises the Christ figure as the sole agent of redemption, psychology argues that every man and woman must realise this new wholeness in his or her own way.