Friends are learning that the historic aspiration to perfection must be replaced by the Jungian aspiration to wholeness. The idea of the shadow looms large in Jungian psychology. They are aware experientially on occasion of a built-in perversity that decrees that the higher the aspiration the greater the potential fall therefrom. But Jungian psychology is likely to comfort them even more by offering them an understanding of the psyche which takes this phenomenon into account, even if it does not ultimately solve the problem of evil. Quakerism lends support to the consensus of the mystics that the world is one.
Mystics are characteristically monist rather than pluralist in their ultimate view of the universe.
Jung was clearly a mystic, as his autobiography amply attests, the criteria being an experience of identification with all things and a sense of the interpenetration of all things. It is therefore not surprising that Jung holds God accountable for the presence of evil in the world, though not of course, for its individual manifestations. I also create evil. To this day, God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or for worse. In the experience of George Fox the ocean of darkness was overcome by the ocean of light.