Up: [[Spirituality]] Course: Jung's Notion of the Self, Lionel Corbett for Phoenix Friends of Jung Created: 2023-01-14 [[C. G. Jung]] says that we take on the God image of whatever culture we’re in, and that these images are really tough to give up. We can also be hugely affected by our early experiences in life, so that we imagine God based on the way people treated each other in our early lives. So, for example, if a parent was stern and angry, we might think of God as similar. And this is akin to the fact that we also have a habit of projecting human psychology onto God images as if they had human habits and emotions. So that whatever we like in ourselves, we project onto God in a superhuman way. But we don’t have to do this. We don’t have to be stuck with what we know. We can have an entirely personal image. And as a collective, we can have a new image. Jung believed that all of the gods and goddesses of all religious traditions were emanations from the objective psyche. So it would be very possible for new emanations and both Jung and Lionel Corbett think we’re on the cusp of one, necessary because we have a different consciousness than earlier people. We need a new image that is compatible with what we know now of modern cosmology and other things. I wonder if this is why so many of us are claiming to be spiritual but not religious? See [[Spiritual But Not Religious Isn't Saying Much]].