by Tom Laughlin

Who will Benefit from Jung's Unique Discovery?

     Whether you are a devout member of a church, whether you are a nominal believer who outwardly goes through some motions but no longer inwardly really believes, whether you seek spirituality outside of an organized religion, or whether you do not believe in God and have no use for religion, Jung's startling discoveries about Who and What God really is will open up to you a source of intelligence, knowledge and spiritual power you never knew existed -- an understanding and personal experience of God that will completely transform your personal and spiritual life.
     C. G. Jung, the Founder and wellspring of the spiritual renaissance that is sweeping the world today, has given us nothing less than a remarkable new way -- completely different than anything previously available -- to intervene in the divine world order and fundamentally change your life as nothing you have known before.
     Jung has shown us that we do not have to go to far away lands or search in esoteric places to find God or meaning in our lives. To find the meaning of your life, to find the purpose of your life -- to find God -- to personally experience the Living God -- you need only use a set of remarkable psychological and Spiritual Exercises Jung has given us, and you will find God alive and well in your own soul.
     "What Jung has given us is not only the secret to finding God in a way never before possible, but the secret to developing our life in a richer, more complete way, than has ever been previously possible."

The Major Difficulties in Discussing God
     Near the end of his life, CG Jung was asked in a BBC interview if he, one of the founding fathers of psychiatry, believed in God.
     Jung's answer ...
     "I do not need to believe ... I know!"

re-li-gion (ri lij' en) L. religio, religare, to bind back < re-,
back + ligare, to bind, < bind together, to connect the
lesser to the greater, the part to the whole

     In theological terms, religion means to reconnect man back to God.
In spiritual terms, religion means to reconnect man back to his soul.
     In psychological terms, religion is the ability to reconnect our conscious personality, our ego and intellect, back to another center of the personality that we do not even know exists, an unknown personality that contains even greater power and greater intelligence than exists in our conscious personality. Indeed, as you will learn, it is this greater power and greater intelligence in this second center of our personality hidden in the unconscious that created our conscious personality in the first place.
In short, religion is the process, the art, of how man is able to reconnect back to God.
     Which brings us to the first difficulty -- the definition of God. Because there is such a wide variety of ways that man imagines and conceptualizes God, it is not possible to discuss intelligently the nature and meaning of God until one works through all of the misconceptions -- and psychological causes of those misconceptions -- in order to reach the level of intellectual and psychological freedom to experience, and then discuss clearly the True Living God.
     This material will approach God and religion through the variety of ways God and religion are experienced and believed in or vehemently denied. Jung did not brush aside the enormous destructiveness and difficulties that have always been created by the abuse of religions and false interpretations of God.
     At the same time, Jung makes it possible, for the first time, to discover and appreciate the inherent beauty in every religion, and shows how, once we understand the true nature of God, and once we know how to use Jung's remarkable new Spiritual Exercises, every religion contains within it an entirely new way to find and relate back to the Living God.
     Tomorrow we will begin discussing some of the major obstacles, conscious and unconscious, that have to be overcome before one can intelligently approach the subject of God.

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Difficulty #1: Without Being Aware of it, Everyone -- even Nonbelievers -- Unknowingly Worships Two Gods