ABSTRACT
Everywhere the claim is being made that the New Age movement is a product of Jungian interest, and spiritually oriented therapists from a diverse range of fields often refer to Carl Jung as their inspiration. Likewise, Jung and his school of analysis are often automatically dismissed by social critics precisely because of their supposed New Age flakiness. Jung clearly has several points in common with the New Age approach. They both agree that spiritual meaning is no longer synonymous with the religious institutions of western culture, and can no longer be contained by them. The New Age is a popular movement which reverses many of the views found in traditional western religion, especially on the body, nature, and desire. It is a cry to make spirituality relevant to people's times and emotionally related to individual human experience. Jung did not naively celebrate these currents in the western psyche.
