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.
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