Darkening Spirit Tacey David La Trobe University Victoria Australia
Darkening Spirit Tacey David La Trobe University Victoria Australia The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. We would experience a new and…
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Darkening Spirit Tacey David La Trobe University Victoria Australia
The twenty-first century could well be Jung's century, just as the twentieth century was Freud's. We would experience a new and even unfashionable appetite for the sacred. Jung predicted the demise of secular humanism and claimed we would search for alternatives to science, atheism and reason.
The sacred has developed a darker hue, and worshipping symbols of light and goodness no longer satisfies the longings of the soul. Educated people, however, would not return to unreconstructed religions, because these do not express the life of the spirit as discerned by modern consciousness. The new sacred cannot be contained by the formulas of the past, but nor can we live without a sense of the sacred.
We stand in a difficult place: between traditional religions we have outgrown and a pervasive materialism we can no longer embrace.These changes in our culture have come sooner than