ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts that are discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book will fully address Jung's late work, Answer to Job, in which he makes clear that the relation of the ego to God is its relation to the archetypal unconscious. It relates that the ego had to emerge from its source at the insistence of the self as the only locus in which the polarities inherent in the source could be perceived and resolved, and that such resolution is the meaning of individual life and the life of the species. The book deals with "Mystics are people who have a particularly vivid experience of the processes of the collective unconscious. Mystical experience is experience of archetypes". Rahner's Catholicism binds him to a supernatural/natural dualism but in a more muted and qualified sense.
