‘Does he believe in God, or doesn't he?’ The answer has to be ‘yes and no’, or ‘yes, but’.

‘religious statements without exception have to do with the reality of the psyche and not with the reality of physis’.

‘Integration of the shadow is an emigration. Not him to us; we to him. His incursion is barbarism, our descent is culture.’

‘All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true’.

The religious attitude, also referred to as the ‘symbolic attitude’ or ‘religious outlook’, is one of reverence toward, and careful consideration of, the contents of the interior domain, in particular to fantasies, visions, dreams and synchronicities.

Derrida, who argued in several important writings that we need to rediscover ‘religion without the religions’.

He says that in his professional writings he uses the term ‘the unconscious’, but is aware that he ‘might equally well speak of “God” or “daimon” if I wished to express myself in mythic language’.

So much evil has accumulated in the Western psyche because we have been identified with the good and the light for too long.

Jung suggests that there is need of a second ‘coming’, not of Christ as such, but of his adversary, the antagonist.