...ological Works of Sigmund Freud, Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London, 1953 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend th... ...tolerable. The meaninglessness of my personal life and my career led me to analysis as a way of coming to cope with myself. I began to see life in a n... ...arly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is not, as popular fantasy has it, grandiose ph... ...d and often greatly distorted. The existence of Islam was also well-known, principally because of the Crusades and other wars past and present. Just w... ...detailed knowledge of only recent manifestations of religious thought. The principal reason for this is that writing—and thus writing down of religiou... ... may hold quite different meanings for persons who use the phrase. The two principal meanings may be expressed as: 1. “God” is a word used to indicate... ...xperienced. I do not say to myself that I should throw out such-and-such a component of the experience as merely a dream or merely imaginary or merely... ...maginary or merely superstitious. I keep the whole experience with all its components intact, experiencing all the components as in their own way impo... ...ed for our own purposes solely. This is all of a piece with our seeing the component creatures and entities of nature as Thous, as persons to be respe...