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This is an important book to read if you are interested in Jungian psychology and are a practicing or recovering Christian.
“Carl Jung asserted that an essential aspect of his work was to Teach people the art of seeing." That is, he sought to articulate a means by which people could experience the truth inherent in the symbols of religion through an understanding of their psychological roots. He saw his psychology as providing a way out of both an arid rationalism and a metaphysical concretism. There is much in modern theology that has come a long way toward Jung's psychological approach. Religion, too, has felt the need to dissolve its own rigid formulations and put forward understandings that have the capacity to connect people to the essential truths-the experiential truthswhich lie at its heart.”
“Raimon Panikkar ... suggests that Being (that is, God) should be understood as a verb and not as a noun. In the light of this idea, religion, properly understood, is not something that one possesses but something that propels one toward religious experience, toward a deeper encounter with life. If we hold to the "thingness" of religion too tightly, a process of petrification sets in and we are in danger of losing the religious life that it expresses.”
“Carl Jung asserted that an essential aspect of his work was to Teach people the art of seeing." That is, he sought to articulate a means by which people could experience the truth inherent in the symbols of religion through an understanding of their psychological roots. He saw his psychology as providing a way out of both an arid rationalism and a metaphysical concretism. There is much in modern theology that has come a long way toward Jung's psychological approach. Religion, too, has felt the need to dissolve its own rigid formulations and put forward understandings that have the capacity to connect people to the essential truths-the experiential truthswhich lie at its heart.”
“Raimon Panikkar ... suggests that Being (that is, God) should be understood as a verb and not as a noun. In the light of this idea, religion, properly understood, is not something that one possesses but something that propels one toward religious experience, toward a deeper encounter with life. If we hold to the "thingness" of religion too tightly, a process of petrification sets in and we are in danger of losing the religious life that it expresses.”
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