"Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom;
yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom;
seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118

"And the gatherer sought to find pleasing words, worthy writings, words of Truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10



Thursday, February 21, 2019

Jung's God

Jung found it hard to commit himself to any traditional theological position.  In practice, his approach to the inner archetype of the Self fulfilled many of the functions which a deity would provide -

“Jung saw this central archetype as the organizer and inventor of dream images – the inner guiding factor that continually extends and matures the personality when the ego is willing to listen to the messages of the Self.  The ego perceives the Self as ‘other,’ and the subjective experience conveys the feeling that ‘some suprapersonal force is actively interfering in a creative way.  One sometimes feels that the unconscious is leading the way in accordance with a secret design.’  Jung spoke of the Self as the ‘god image’ in the psyche, and encounters with the Self have all the qualities associated with the concept of God.”
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“Jung says that those who have developed a kind of dialogue between the ego and the rest of the psyche sense themselves as the objects of an unknown and supraordinate object.  He closed his Answer to Job with this passage”
 
            'Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky.'
 
These descriptions are remarkably like those of many Christian Writers.”

Jean and Wallace Clift
Symbols of Transformation in Dreams

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