Jungian Thoughts

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...

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...