THE WOLF Akira The Don (Ft. Carl Jung & Alan Watts)

"Healing may be called," Jung says
"A religious problem
In the sphere of social or national relations
The state of suffering may be civil war
And this state is to be cured by the Christian virtue
Of forgiveness and love of one's enemies
That which we recommend
With the conviction of good Christians
Is applicable to external situations
We must also apply inwardly in the treatment of neurosis
This is why modern man has heard enough about guilt and sin
He is solely beset by his own bad conscience
And wants rather to know

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How he is to reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother
To reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother

The modern man does not want to know in what way he can imitate Christ
But in what way he can live his own individual life
However meager and uninteresting it may be
It is because every form of imitation
Seems to him deadening and sterile
That he rebels against the force of tradition that would hold him to well-trodden ways
All such roads for him lead in the wrong direction
He may not know it
But he behaves as if his own individual life
Were God's special will which must be fulfilled at all costs
This is the source of his egoism
Which is one of the most tangible evils of the neurotic state
But the person who tells him he is too egoistic
Has already lost his confidence
And rightfully so
For that person has driven him still further into this neurosis