The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion

The cure is homeopathic: take in and imbibe some of the poison so it does not totally destroy us.

But Heidegger wrote at length about the ‘darkening of the world’ (Weltverdüsterung) and argued that this was connected with the darkening of spirit (Geist).

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.

Derrida, who argued in several important writings that we need to rediscover ‘religion without the religions’.

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

Jung's complex position is that we cannot find scientific proof for the existence of God.

At the back of this undervaluation of the soul is a fear of interiority.

‘Integration of the shadow is an emigration. Not him to us; we to him. His incursion is barbarism, our descent is culture.’

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