Or, as C. G. Jung said, our instincts are spiritual archetypes that we must accept in order to be fully integrated persons. When we go within, notions like right and wrong, guilt and bad conscience disappear. By embracing evil, pagan spirituality produces a temporary, counterfeit euphoria of virtual redemption. I once developed a painful ear infection. The specialist took a tool called a strawberry, inserted it into my ear, and punctured an abscess.
Conscience is as delicate as hearing.
The powerful experience of embracing evil can sometimes appear more attractive than the mundane faithfulness of genuine Christian living in the real world of good and evil. Such liberation from self-doubt, we are told, holds the key to the planet's spiritual future. People are discovering their divine, guilt-free identity. Imagine you are full of light. Now feel peace because you are perfect, intelligent, magnificent-because all the wisdom of the universe is within you.