Q&A (#4) - Good & Evil - Part 1
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 25/01/2018

There will be a LIVE Question and Answer Session on Friday,  September 26, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time to continue with Part 2 of this discussion:

My opening topic will be Good and Evil, but you are free to add other questions you would like to address in the comments below. I will begin with ¶408 of "After the Catastrophe," which is found in Volume 10, Civilization in Transition.  Dr. Jung wanted us to know that Evil is a Great Power, and we need to learn to recognize it.

03:25--Good & Evil is one of the dualities (The Opposites).
04:10--Dr. Jung's point was that we each do have an element of Evil within us.
04:50--At the end of his life, Dr. Jung hoped that Good will weigh heavier in the balance vis-a-vis Evil.
05:25--We're in a transformational stage.  We have to learn to identify Evil.
06:00--Christianity had reduced Satan to a children's fairy tale, but it's not that simple.
07:55 Reading from Civilization in Transition, Volume 10 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, ¶408, "After the Catastrophe."
08:50 Our Psyche does not live by itself.  It is part of the Collective Unconscious.  "Something is set aflame by the ugliness of the crime ..."  
11:50 We are susceptible to fall victim to Evil within our own heart.
12:35 All of us can see that our whole society is permeated by this paragraph.
12:50 Everyone who is watching this video has been watching the news of the developments vis-a-vis the current American Administration.
13:40 We have no global understanding about what to do right now.
14:15 It seemed like our civilization was rock solid; but it has proven that what we thought was rock solid was really quick sand.
15:20 Jesus Christ's unconditional Love.  Reference to Dr. Jung's _Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. 
16:25 From a psychological point of view, Jesus Christ is a Symbol for The Self--the deepest Archetype of the Psyche. 
18:00 Reference to Dr. C.G. Jung's _Answer to Job_ ¶752: "Every religious statement of whatever type is a statement of the Psyche, not a statement of the Physis (the physical world).
18:40 Every religion is true.  If it is a psychic fact in one person, then it is true at least for that one person.  
19:30 The important thing for all of us to do is reflect on these points.

Also, feel free to suggest better times of day and days of week.

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