The Evolution of God-Images Part VIII: A God of Integrated Consciousness
“Man started from an unconscious state and has ever striven for greater consciousness. The development of consciousness is the burden, the suffering and the blessing of mankind.” ~Men, Women, and God” (1955), C. G Jung Speaking, p. 248. “Man knows only a small part of his psyche, just as he has only a very limited […]
The Evolution of God-Images Part VII: An Outer Other God
As our bodies have a mysterious imperative to grow and develop physically, so our psyche has a mysterious compulsion to evolve. We don’t know what this is, we just know it is. Carl Jung thought of the psyche’s compulsion to evolve as the archetype of Divinity. He saw it as both the core and circumference […]
The Evolution of God-Images Part VI: A Conventionally Moral God
It is, however, true that much of the evil in the world comes from the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious, as it is also true that with increasing insight we can combat this evil at its source in ourselves, in the same way that science enables us to deal effectively with injuries […]
The Evolution of God-Images Part V: A Gender-Biased God
For most of my adult life I’ve struggled with the idea that God is a male. Many spirit persons don’t imagine God as a supernatural gendered being, but many ordinary people do. Everywhere we turn, religious language still speaks of God as one-sidedly masculine. As a child I found this curious. By midlife I found […]
The Evolution of God-Images Part IV: A God Like Us
“Obviously we do not know how the ego arose in man. We have certain myths showing how ancient man thought about this problem, and we can observe the phenomenon in very young children today. Just as the individual child must undergo training and discipline, so too the primitive nature of man had to be housebroken […]
The Evolution of God-Images Part I: A Masculine God
“[T]he soul must contain in itself the faculty of relationship to God, i.e., a correspondence, otherwise a connection could never come about. This correspondence is, in psychological terms, the archetype of the God-image.” C.G. Jung, CW Vol.12, par. 11. “It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but […]
Four Practices to Enhance Your Spirituality and Individuation
“The task consists in integrating the unconscious, in bringing together “conscious” and “unconscious.” I have called this the individuation process…” ~C.G. Jung Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, par.459. Spiritually, our destiny is to evolve into wise, consciously integrated beings who recognize the sacredness of all life and work to preserve it at every opportunity. We […]
The Couple and Your Spirituality
The Couple is an archetypal image of the Self that has reemerged into collective consciousness in our time. Its energy is created by your use of the metaphysical Law of Three to unite your lunar and solar twins into third-force archetypes and form a conscious relationship with the Self. Our forebears projected the Couple archetype […]
Mandorla Consciousness: Evolving Beyond Belief
The world-wide polarization in religious and political dialogue is frightening. But beneath the chaos, individuals and nations are making unprecedented progress in healing the sacred divide. Our species is evolving and we are beginning to unite the opposites. Welcome to Epoch III: the era of mandorla consciousness.” ~Healing the Sacred Divide, p. 277. My third book, […]
Heart Murmurs
“…emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion.” C.G. Jung, CW, 9i, par. 179. Most of us think we know everything we’re feeling, but the truth […]
