It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness. β¨ Psychology and religion: West and East.
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- The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. β¨ Carl Gustav Jung (2001). Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p.67, Psychology Press
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