- 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)