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The Darkening Spirit - Jung, spirituality, religion (Hardcover, New)
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The Darkening Spirit - Jung, spirituality, religion (Hardcover, New)
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The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the
twentieth century was Freud's. Jung predicted the demise of secular
humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science,
atheism and reason. We would experience a new and even
unfashionable appetite for the sacred. Educated people, however,
would not return to unreconstructed religions, because these do not
express the life of the spirit as discerned by modern
consciousness. The sacred has developed a darker hue, and
worshipping symbols of light and goodness no longer satisfies the
longings of the soul. The new sacred cannot be contained by the
formulas of the past, but nor can we live without a sense of the
sacred. We stand in a difficult place: between traditional
religions we have outgrown and a pervasive materialism we can no
longer embrace. These changes in our culture have come sooner than
Jung might have imagined. In his time Jung struck many as eccentric
or unscientific. But his works speak to our time since we have
experienced the full gamut of Jungian transformations: the
unsettlement of Judeo-Christian culture, the rise of the feminine,
the onslaught of the dark side, the critique of modernism and
positivism, and the recognition that the Western ego is neither the
pinnacle of evolution nor the lord of creation. A new life is
needed beyond the ego, but we do not yet know what it will look
like. The outbreak of strong religion and terrorism are signs of
the times, but these are expressions of a distorted and repressed
spirit, and not, one hopes, genuine pointers to the future. What
the future holds is uncertain, but Jung's prophetic vision helps to
prepare us for what is to come, and this will be of great interest
to analytical psychologists and psychoanalysts, as well as to
theologians, futurists, sociologists, and the general reader.
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