Perspective Shift:

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t

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According to Jung, the Self often calls the ego to sacrifice, to go through a process of death and transformation. This anguish is a sign that the soul is about to enter the dark night of the soul —but consciously.

The overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation. This is ultimately achieved through enabling the rebirth of a new image of God in his soul and developing a new worldview in the form of a psychological and theological cosmology. Liber Novus presents the prototype of Jung’s

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The

soul

goes

on

to

offer

her

spirit

to

God

in

death,

descend

into

hell,

be

raised

from

the

dead,

offer

consolation

to

her

disci-

ples,

and

ascend

into

heaven.

In

all

these

ways,

the

loving

union

of

the

soul

with

God

is

depicted

in

the

language

of

Christ's

own

experience

in

the

New

Testament

Passion

narratives.