ABSTRACT

Individuation, wholeness, how in fear and trembling a man may come to work out his own salvation, has always been the central theme of religion. Psychology is widely looked upon as the enemy of religion. To some extent this is true. In certain of the various versions of psychology at present current, the human psyche is in the main dismissed as nothing more than a biological by-product. In the experiment in depth the psyche is not thus dismissed, but accepted as a legitimate object of experience in its own right. The question naturally arises, what is the relationship between psychology, so understood, and religion; meaning by religion no one particular cult or creed but the age-old, world-wide effort of man to make contact with a creative possibility beyond himself.