Jungian Thoughts

By George Elder, 9/8/25 I did not have room for the following comments in my post on “William James” so will add them here. In that...

By George Elder, 7/30/25 When I finished my recent Post on “Fundamentalism,” I thought how much the distinction between Christian...

By George Elder, 7/5/25 I have just published a second edition of The Snake and the Rope: A Jungian View of Hinduism  (BookLocker, 2025)....

By George Elder, 4/29/25 Full disclosure: I was a fundamentalist Christian from the womb until my early twenties. My family belonged to...

By George Elder, 3/28/25 In my previous Post (“Amalek”), I said in passing that the biblical report of the Israelites’ freedom from...

By George Elder, 1/16/25 When Israel’s military response to Hamas’ exceptional brutality became exceptional itself, I began to wonder if...

By George Elder, 12/25/24 The following requires reading or re-reading of last year’s post, “Christmas, 2023.” In it, I quote Jung: Thus...

By George Elder, 10/9/24 “War is hell,” we sometimes hear. It gives the impression that normally we are at peace while war is an...

By George Elder, 8/10/24 The word “cult” is a neutral term in the field of religious studies. It usually refers to a religion’s external...

By George Elder, 6/26/24 When referring briefly to the “Lord’s Prayer” in my last Post, I realized that I have written little about...