ABSTRACT

The preceding chapters depict Jung's psychology as itself a myth, no doubt in alliance with other contemporary perspectives, superseding and so appreciatively undermining all religions and their spiritualities reliant on a divinity understood to be, at least potentially, wholly other than the human. Jung would ground the origin of all the religions and their spiritualities in the immediate commerce of consciousness with the archetypal unconscious. This perspective strongly suggests that monotheistic consciousness is hostile to the current evolution of the human religious instinct, anti-social in its limited empathy and so of questionable morality in the face of the broader inclusiveness currently urged by the present movement of the deeper psyche.