Saturday, March 22, 2008

Affirming Jung's bio-spiritual view, more or less

Carl Jung located his world view, his view of the psyche, in the physical or biological world, even if he seems to have had doubts about it later, and admitted some belief in the supernatural beyond the physical. We would more or less agree with this biological assessment, accept that we affirm the Spirit or God-Within as beyond the physical yet still housed in the physical, as a source of knowledge of God, as well as a spiritual activator.

The Spirit could be described as a Divine Manifestation, or Enlightened-Intuition, or it can and has been described in many other terms, with many planes and levels of existence. What we do affirm, unlike the Traditional view, is that the Spirit-Within, the Divine within, is not Godhood but is a glorious aspect or spiritual hint of the Godhood which we can reach at the culmination of biological-spiritual evolution.

Our view of the Spirit-Within is more in line with Jung's biological view than perhaps with the religious or esoteric sages. We agree that the Divine, which the great sages were describing, was correctly beyond Jung's physical world, yet perhaps unlike the view of the sages, for all intents and purposes the Spirit remains housed within Jung's physical world until It reaches Its destination after eons of bio-spiritual evolution to Godhood. The Spirit is thus both immanently and transcendently within.

( Here is a sort of Wilberian and interesting introduction to Jung by M. Alan Kazlev. )

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