Religion is a defense against a religious experience.
More Quotes from Carl Gustav Jung:
I could not say that I believe. I know I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Gustav Jung
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.
Carl Gustav Jung
We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain
Carl Gustav Jung
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.
Carl Gustav Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents
Carl Gustav Jung
The term 'religion' designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum.
Carl Gustav Jung
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