I just hate it when a person who has attacked my integrity may indeed have a good point with something they write. In this case, a person I don't give much wiggle room to merely mentioned that Carl Jung wrote a book entitled Answer To Job. I never read it, so I Googled it up, and started reading the articles and reviews of this book to get the gist of what it was about. The Biblical story of Job is what it's about, and what Jung thought it represented cognitively.
I'm not a Jung scholar. I quote Jung when I think it makes me look cool. I know better than to argue particulars with even a half-ass Jung junkie. That's why it surprises me a little each time my attention gets riveted once again by another Jung quote. For instance, this particular quote that Joseph Campbell attributes to Jung in The Power of Myth:
“Religion is a defense against religious experience.”
I've suspected for a long time that my true inspiration to study the history of religion is the visions I've had that have the effect of turning my world around without warning. I'm a gullible person. That's why the above Jung quote moves me. My real religion is defending myself against my own experiences.
The article I'm quoting below comes from the linked web site, and sorta focused me on the gist of where Jung is going with his analysis of God:
"God is moving, in this view, out of his unconsciousness and primary narcissism and becomes a “God in time.” The “answer (to Job),” then, is when God as Christ crucified becomes fully human and can now empathically see and suffer humanity’s pain."
http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=727&Itemid=40
If you've been reading me for a while, you might have noticed that I've been intrigued for a few weeks with the notion that what I am is, is a docetic spirit attempting to become human. Thankfully, I haven't claimed this is an original idea. New to me, of course, not many things aren't, but for me and my quest, the idea of being a spirit trying to become human is different than my usual spiel.
Answer To Job, by Carl Jung, is apparently an entire book on the topic. In the story of Job, however, the docetic spirit has a name. Yahweh. A war god of the early Jewish tribes' pantheon. In effect, Jung is psychoanalyzing God, and God (Yahweh) obviously has a hidden agenda. It wants to become human.
We are not human beings on a spirit quest, we are spiritual beings on a human quest. ~ Ben J. Miller
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
