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“This is I, the creator of all the ungovernable, ruthless forces of Nature which are not subject to any ethical laws.”

– Carl Jung (excerpt from the book, Answer To Job)

According to Jung, God is the mind of nature, endless infinite unconscious. And the Universe is the collective unconscious manifest of perception. All knowing, all loving God is challenged in the story of Job and Carl Jung proposed that God has a dark side and only through interactions with humans, God can become aware of it.

The mind of the Universe, archetypal consciousness move through us and it has been since the dawn of time. It’s a continuous stream of progressive consciousness. Jung claimed that he predicted Nazi rising in Germany through observation of his German patients. They had dreams in which the whole thing was anticipated with considerable detail in the years before Hitler. He predicted that something catastrophic was threatening Germany.

When the individual have a subjective idea or a thought, it affects the collective unconscious. Jung believed that inner psychic phenomenon was more important than anything else externally to understand the world. In the book of Job, the suffering inflicted on Job can be described as the moral of the injustice as part of the bigger plan that is not understood by reason. So Jung challenged the notion of injustice and attempts to answer to Job through God consciousness. Although God’s unfathomable masterplan for the Universe, Jung looks at the inconsistency of irrationality of God as a cataclysm, then the next moment he wants to be loved, honored, worshipped and praised as just. He reacts irritably to every word that has the faintest suggestion of criticism, while he himself does not care for his own moral code if his actions happens to run counter to its statutes, therefore this contradiction is the battle we see in the collective consciousness.

Particularly the early God Yahweh has all good, all bad thinking therefore God was a borderline patient according to Jung – It is a psychiatric problems, uncontrolled unconscious not mitigated, not regulated, wild depth of our human psyche expressed outwardly with so much splitting. What if it wasn’t a story about redemption of human sin but a story of redemption of God’s unconsciousness – in the inflicting of the suffering, the unconscious darkness is realised.

To conclude, if we embrace only the good in our own consciousness, the bad constellates and builds pressure that bursts outwardly. In the gospel of Job, he was so much into thinking of the good God and the loving God therefore in his unconscious the build up evil almost had a psychotic outburst into almost metaphoric apocalypse.

“We don’t want one sidedness, otherwise the other side becomes the shadow.”

To carry the ambiguity is the God consciousness, to be constantly open to self correction therefore the capacity for holding both the human and Divine, our finitude and our transcendence.

“If we only hold onto our finitude we fall pray to servitude and despair, if we only hold onto our transcendence, we fall prey to hubris and inflation but if we can hold the two together, if we are the metaxy between the Beast and the God we can realise our humanity.”

(Except from the dialogue between J. Peterson and John Vervaeke)

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J. Peterson & John Vevaeke

Essentia Foundation – God’s Dark Side