ABSTRACT
In churches and synagogues people have, in God's name, been taught how best to live their lives. Their behavior and feelings have been influenced by sermons and liturgy to obey such guidelines as the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. They have also received lessons through biblical stories about desired human qualities. What Jung declares is that the rapprochement between God and Job—where Job measures up well to any standards of good judgment and devotion—opened the human psyche for its pathway toward human ascendancy and self-affirmation. The advent of the psychotherapist has taken people on an unreservedly humanistic pathway by transposing supernatural authority into a poetic humanity. While many people in psychotherapeutic circles scoff at believers in the supernatural, these beliefs are not trivial human creations. They are tributes to the malleable human mind, which can fashion an expanded reality, one that is more faithful to people's broad concerns than the reality given by everyday perceptions.
