The Levels of Truth in Religion.

SEA OF FAITH IN AUSTRALIA (SoFiA) - Melbourne.

Some of us are participating in SoFiA's online event.

John Noack (Carl Jung Society) will present the topic and lead the discussion.

Three Ideological/Theological Perspectives:
Don Cupitt expressed his interest in the insights of the Psycho-therapist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Citizens of our current rational, post-Enlightenment and Science-oriented 21stcentury appear to have formed themselves roughly into three intellectual camps, with differing philosophical and ideological perspectives and spiritual approaches to life:
(1).. The Freethinkers have continued the Enlightenment’s stress on rational, logical, empirical and evidence-based thinking. They treat as being inferior or of less importance, the more subjective and ethological features. These include and involve {1}the establishing of ethical principles and practices in the quest for distinguishing what is “good or bad” or “right” and “wrong” and {2} the forming of aesthetical assessments and judgements in the quest for what is “beautiful” or “ugly”.
(2) The Fulfilment-seekers accept the reality of both the outer objective physical and scientifically-empirical realm in the Universe and also the real experiences in the inner psychical and spiritually-practised realm of both the personal conscious and the collective and archetypal un-conscious levels within all human psyches. Their task involves the integration of these various levels of consciousness and to achieve a bio-psycho-socio-cosmic Wholeness or the “True Self”.
(3) The Fundamentalists have mostly been indoctrinated and exposed to the doctrines, world-views and theological perspectives of various pre-enlightenment Religions and their Sacred Scriptures. They therefore seek to maintain their acceptance of such doctrines as {1} the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, conscious, human-like, heavenly Supreme Being; {2} the infallibility and inerrancy of their Holy Book, as revealed to them by their God, through angels or human prophets; and {3} the supernatural events as revealed, including the miraculous Creation of the Universe, a Global Flood, a parting of the Red Sea; a Virgin Birth; and many others.

Don Cupitt tended to promote the need for both “freedom of intellectual thought” and for “integrated psychical fulfilment”.

Wikipedia on Don Cupitt

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