Jungian Thoughts

By George Elder, 3/4/26 Ultimately, there are as many world views as there are individual human faces. At the same time, we are collective creatures and hold world views in common with others, i.e., as expressed by our culture in the epoch in which we find ourselves. Such was the case of the ancient Israelites who recorded their view of the world in the Hebrew Bible—what the Christians call the Old Testament, to which they added a New Testament. All of this scripture is sacre

By George Elder, 2/4/26 When I wrote in my earlier post on “Fundamentalism” that the “clash between Christian ‘fundamentalists’ and ‘modernists’ is pointless” because they are “trying to live inside a world view that has disappeared,” I was speaking from my own different world view. I could have said they are in conflict inside the same Christian view of the world that still works for them—even though it is no longer meaningful for an increasing number of persons. Let us ackn

By George Elder, Christmas Eve, 2025 My “Christmas present” to readers last year was an early scripture that did not make it into the Bible as we know it (the official canon itself was not firm until around the 4 th century). We heard from a midwife at the birth of Christ that he was born as a “fantastically bright light”—and only afterward “shrank, imitated the shape of an infant.” Even then, “he had no weight like other babies who are born . . . but he was in his body tota

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...