ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters make it clear that Jung's understanding of psyche is incompatible with the supernaturalism explicit or implied in the monotheistic imagination. These chapters also clarify the disastrous social and political consequences attendant upon the escape of these divinities from the containment of the psyche into an independent existence in the skies of theological transcendence. At the same time, when it is realized that the response to these various Gods in projection enabled humanity to understand the movements of the human psyche that created them, the moment of their externalization can be helpful if they can now be recalled to their origin and addressed there. Consequently any and every form of monotheism that would understand divinity to be an entity, personal or transpersonal, possessed of a self-suf®ciency even potentially disengaged from nature and the psyche would fall far short of Jung's understanding of the relation of divinity to humanity. The existence of such a remote entity would fail to accommodate Jung's dialectical interplay of divinity and humanity intersecting in history in processes of mutual completion. Further inquiry revealed that the intimacy Jung established between psyche and religious consciousness extends to his social, political and cultural psychology. It does so because religious, political and civilizational faith jointly derive from the same archetypal basis generating faith in all the Gods, religious and secular, as the basis of these civilizations. It follows that the religious and political/cultural Gods, then, are but two variants of a common generative source. Historically, at least in the West, the former preceded the latter but the latter, in the guise of modern secularity, are no less divested of a divinely based exhaustive ultimacy than were the transcendent Gods who preceded modernity. The problem for the contemporary, delineated by the current collusion of geopolitical insight with psychology, is that faith communities bonded by either religious or secular faith continue to contribute to the body count in their geographic and historic interplay.
