Carl Jung believed each of us
originally had a total and powerful sense
of the Self – the total psyche
but then trauma caused the Ego to emerge
which narrowed our consciousness down
to awareness of our small self as a vulnerable individual
but our Ego still needed connection to the Self
to have psychic health
in this regard the Ego’s striving for security and perfection
is striving for death
because we kill our own life
by trying to control everyone else’s life
leaving no room for error or disruption
but sooner or later disruption happens
we lose our health or a loved one
and errors happen –
all this is an inevitable part of being human
so to counter this, God always calls all humans
to God’s version of perfection –
sharing in the Divine Life beyond all corruption –
Christ won victory over error/disruption/death
by dying and rising for all humans
so that all of us who live with Lady Wisdom
know faith is God’s Answer
to human versions of perfection
and human anxiety about an insecure future
by the grace of God, intimate friendship with the Risen Jesus
has always been central
to the spiritual life of authentic Christians –
this friendship allows us to love
our fellow human beings and our True Self
which fulfills God’s Commandments given to us in Judaism
and in modern Jewish thought –
“All real living is meeting other people”
– Martin Buber, Jewish theologian –
contrast this with the atheist
Jean-Paul Sartre:
“Hell is other people”
God’s version of perfection – faith in God –
saves us from every version of hell.
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