"I remember the case of a young woman[....]The first dream which made sense to her in her analysis brought about a big change. She suddenly realized that if she had such a dream where there is an inner somebody, a mysterious inner somebody who means her, who is concerned about her, then she counts. That brought about a big change. It gave her a religious feeling of being meant, of being chosen, if you want, of being singled out. In a way, individuation is [...] a kind of chosenness, namely to be meant, to have fate, to have destiny."
Rivkah Scharf Kluger
The Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh
Jungian individuation proceeds by way of a religious relationship to a "a power greater than our own." As with Alcoholics Anonymous it seems to matter little how you define this higher power, the relationship to it begins to generate power when it gets "personal."
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