In his work Psychology and Religion: West and East C.G. Jung writes, “No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendour to the world and to mankind” (para. 167). Jung’s understanding of religion as based on personal experience of the God within, was made evident in a 1959 BBC interview in which John Freeman asked Jung if he believed in God, to which Jung replied, “I don’t need to believe… I know.” This talk will explore Jung’s relationship to religious experience, the mystical or, what Jung refers to as, the numinous.
Carl Jung and the Mystical Dimension of the Psyche
with Sr Marie Claude Teer
Leader
Sister Marie Claude Teer
Sister Marie Claude Teer, a member of the Canonesses of St. Augustine, Congregation of Our Lady, is a graduate of SOAS, University of London, where she studied Anthropology and Comparative Religion, and obtained an MA in Indian Philosophy. She is a Jungian Analyst and Psychotherapist, a Member of the Guild of Analytical Psychologists (G.A.P), and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). Sr. Marie Claude works in private practice in London.
Leader
Sister Marie Claude Teer
Sister Marie Claude Teer, a member of the Canonesses of St. Augustine, Congregation of Our Lady, is a graduate of SOAS, University of London, where she studied Anthropology and Comparative Religion, and obtained an MA in Indian Philosophy. She is a Jungian Analyst and Psychotherapist, a Member of the Guild of Analytical Psychologists (G.A.P), and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). Sr. Marie Claude works in private practice in London.
