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After years of devoting his life to healing efforts, Carl Jung made a striking observation about how people are and are not healed. he wrote:
"All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble... They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
This 'outgrowing' proved on further investigation to require a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient's horizon, and through this broadening of his or her outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms but faded when confronted with a new and stronger life urge."
I am convinced from practice as much as from theory that the creation-centered spiritual tradition will bring with it a 'new and stronger life urge.' It has the power to birth people a new, and with that birthing to rebirth structures and ways of living. The "patient" today is not an individual seeking a psychologist's support; the patient is nothing less than Western civilization and indeed humankind itself. We need a new and stronger life urge. We need a religious vision from wisdom. As Whitehead put it, "the fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion is our one ground for optimism." If religion can expand to recover its oldest and deepest tradition in the West, that of creation-centered spirituality, then truly there is room for hope. And for high adventure and for much new employment towards New Creation.
For too long Christians seeking comfort have been defining community as a noun. In fact, community is people building something together, working on a common project. To throw ourselves into a common project of retrieving wisdom for an ecological era - this is no small tasks, no mean adventure. Whitehead warns that "the death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure."
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