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"Two Jungian analysts discuss fundamentalism, shadow, and a new way forward.
George Didier and Vlado Šolc, authors of the book Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology,
join Patricia Martin for a conversation about the psychology of religion as a destructive force and
why it is important to understand the shadow side of fundamentalism."
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
"I began to ask other questions about religion because religion is so transformative and powerful. How do people become so condemning, righteous, rigid, narrow in their beliefs?
How does religion become almost truncated for them?
thought it was an opportunity to really explore that element of fundamentalism
so prominent in our culture today.”
From Jungianthology Radio: Jung in the World | Fundamentalism’s Dark Side: A Jungian View with George Didier & Vladislav Šolc, Feb 5, 2024
"We all have to look at our dark side.
Dark religion brings that out, I think, to a degree. Some religions, a little bit further along that line, well, they shut off anything that is dark because they've got the winning God
they can't be open to the evil they may commit in going to war, that the infidel must be killed.
Yeah. Jung said that religion is a defense against the experience of God.
He really meant like the, what we would call the dark religion, that is, it's a defensive.”
"perhaps the serious nature of the planet's condition is the counterpoint to our embrace of technology,
it is causing us to pay attention to the natural world so that we're creating a balance and that reverence.
We're talking about religion here and religion invokes reverence, right?
Perhaps the planet is calling our attention to a missing piece of what goes into the New Munis Experience and that is
to care for the natural world again.”
@holon42 I can think of a lot of colorful ways to express my thoughts about fundamentalism, but shadow religion isn’t one of them.
@holon42 I sometimes think Jesus looks at many Christian* Fundamentalists, sighs and says, "Oh! You of such *little* faith!"
If our faith were just a tiny bit bigger, we'd not be so threatened by new ideas.
indeed. faith in the ongoing process of sanctification, so to speak.
as a species, we are still growing. for me, creation is an ongoing developmental process, transformative.
"fundamentalism is a negative reaction.
It wants to go back and find security and retreat in the past and hold on to the values because the
fundamentalists seem to be most afraid that big science and tradition is going to be lost because it's going to be replaced by big science and secular rationalism.
So they, I think more than anything, are very scared of losing what gives them meaning, what gives them purpose in life."