- the goal of jungian psychology is to “unravel one’s personal myth” to craft our values, sense of meaning and [[{1.4a1} pistis is loyalty to your inner law|pistis]].
- religion gives us frameworks that protect us from our unconscious, but also helpfully acts as a symbol to give shape to our spiritual experiences. (see [[{1.4a2} god as the greatest amount of libido]].)
- however, it’s “ready-made” – remember [[{5.2b1d} frameworks create a fixed lens]].
- when we don’t intentionally engage / work with / develop our personal myth, we unconsciously adopt others’ frameworks or are “tormented by substitute gods” (money, sex, power, etc).
- in this way, *healing is a “religious problem”*.
- [[the unconscious is the matrix of all primal religious experience]], minus the orthodoxy and dogma.
- when guided by one’s own myth, life becomes sacred and “the container for unconscious truth” (pg. 130)