I Know

"I don't believe. I know! I been gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God."
-- Carl Jung

"I’m convinced he (Jung) was a mystic because he insisted on actual inner experience of outer dogmas and doctrines, and that’s what mystics always emphasize.

Depth psychology, which in some respects is a modern secular version of traditional spirituality and deals with many of the same issues, tells us that our lives are guided by subconscious, ruling images which Jung calls archetypes—such as the father, the mother, the eternal child, the hero, the virgin, the wise old man, the magician, the trickster, the devil, and the God image.

Jung claims that some of these archetypes are found all over the world. They just keep recurring in different ways and utterly fascinate the soul. Thus he said they are part of “the collective unconscious,” which is another of his key ideas. These fundamental patterns show up in dreams and behavior in every culture, and they appear in symbols and stories that go as far back in time as we can go.  Hence, they actually create the perennial tradition, and are especially communicated in myth, religion, and art—all of which the overly rational mind dismisses as unimportant...

"Carl Jung simply calls this the inner God archetype, the “whole-making instinct” which drives and stirs every soul to become what it is, and become all that it is."

- Richard Rohr