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St. Augustine is reputed to have said that the Divine provides the wind, but it is up to us to raise the sails. What we learn to do, in all of our splendid practices and exercises of spirituality and depth psychology, is to raise the sail and then the Invisible Force/ Pneuma fills the sail and takes us where we belong. This book, Psychology and Religion at the Millennium and Beyond, is the eighth book in a series about comparative sail-raising. J. Marvin Spiegelman is the editor and co-author of the seven preceding volumes in the important ‘Religion and Jungian Psychology Series’ published by New Falcon. Spiegelman continues to be a major voice in the Jungian world, continuously, gracefully, and competently calling us to celebrate the universal presence of Divinity within our human diversity. Spiegelman accomplishes this task in all of his books by inviting his colleagues to tell the story of how and when the Presence became present in the traditions into which they were born. Many authors also describe how they were led beyond their own personal experiences of the Other to a deeper understanding of the collective unconscious as Presence.
In ancient times, when strangers came upon each other at the border between Tibet and China, they were greeted with the salutation, ‘Sir, to which sublime tradition do you belong?’ In 1999, many of us find ourselves in liminal/threshold/border places regarding the traditions of our faith. Some of us are not sure whether the ships which brought us to this border are seaworthy enough to survive the next voyage. Are our sails so small that the Spirit is helpless? Have high school and high-school-like shootings and bombings in Colorado and Kosovo shown us how unconscious and darkly collective we find ourselves at the beginning of the new millennium? Is it not time to ask one another the border question again?
Psychology and Religion at the Millennium and Beyond asks the border question, and the authors all respond from a place in their h