I was raised Catholic. That means I am "unworthy." Or so they tell me. What am I so "unworthy" of? The full forgiveness of God. They tell me God "loves" me. Why else would He do to His own son what He should rightfully do to me? But even the torture and murder of His own son is not enough for God's love to fully forgive and "cure" me. Forgive and cure me for what? For being born less perfect than Jesus, and for being born into a species that so offended God that, rather than choosing to get over it, He decided instead to ensure the stain of that offense attaches to every human soul He creates, and then requires us to spend our life asking for forgiveness for the unavoidable results of having been born with such a stain. As a Catholic, it's you sole goal in life to strive to be like Jesus, so I can gain admission into "the kingdom of Heaven," or fear being cast out and damnation. Original sin, as such, is the passport tha...
Have you ever noticed that the word "transcendence" can have very different meanings, depending on who is defining it? While they look similar at first, the way Roman Catholicism and Carl Jung define transcendence function as complete opposites under the hood. The two are as different from each other as fast food is from health food. And to rationalize the former is like believing a sugar addiction must mean God designed us to hate vegetables in order to shorten our life so we would get our greatest craving of all finally satisfied: an eternity with the God of sugar. In religious experience , transcendence is a state of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence, and by some definitions, has also become independent of it. Such a state can only be reached by studying the Bible, and only with the guidance of those God has given authority to interpret its cryptic prose and poetry . For Jung, transcendence is something very different. While religio...