Triangulating

JUST AS COMPARING BIBLE TRANSLATIONS HELPS US UNDERSTAND both specific passages and the Bible as a whole, so comparing religious traditions helps us understand both specific traditions and religious phenomena more broadly. Comparative study brings witnesses with differing points of view into play, in the hope they’ll clarify one another. Last week, while re-reading The …

Here’s How Jungian Psychology Feeds the Soul

EXPERIMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGIES DENY THE SOUL, and psychoanalytic psychologies explain away meaning. Jungian psychology does neither. Instead, it maps out a path toward a post-critical, re-enchantment of life. In our post-Enlightenment, postmodern world, psychology should help us understand the soul, because “psyche” means “soul.” Unfortunately, experimental and behavioral psychologies ignore the soul altogether by …