carl jung's alchemy and god #debate

[00:00:00]If we believe God to be necessary, because he is an archetype of the mind, that to me is completely separate from his genuine existence. If during self-introspection and we try to build ourselves [music] to be better, there is a part of us that references God. It is something God is something that was always existing in humans, [music] but we just learned to give it a name and learned to give it a concept. That is something purely philosophical and psychological on a level of observing the self, the same way we have the ideas of threats in our minds, the same way that we have ideas of the the ego, the the dark side of our minds. These [music] things are concepts that we have given names to in forms of archetypes, but that doesn't mean that any of those hold any weight in reality. The person that coined this frame of thought, Carl Jung, also famously stripped away another thing of its of its footing in the ground and turned it more into a psychological phenomenon. Alchemy was the pursuit poor metals like lead into gold. The Carl Jung represented a series of thought that wasn't that they were literally trying to turn these metals into gold, but it was more of a series of thought. It was more of a philosophical way to work on the self, to turn the self into gold, to turn the self from a raw, undeveloped lead into gold. I am looking at the idea of God. I believe it is absolutely rooted in humans' minds and psyche as something necessary, as an answer to an end, as a way to pursue something that is good and sound and is whole, but that doesn't mean it holds any weight in reality. We shouldn't focus on trying to make actual lead into gold, but we absolutely should spend a lot of our time trying to turn the self, the unformed lead of our mind, >> [music] >> into gold. But, none of that means that God or creator is needed [music] for any of that.