Carl Jung's View On God (EXPLAINED) 

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe." - Nietzche

"God is a circle whose Centre Is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere" classic !

The difficulty of a finite being attempting to comprehend the infinite.

He knows God. A mystic doesn’t believe in God, as he has experienced gnosis in his heart.

I think he said "I Know" because God is in us at some level and most of us feel it.

This is crazy, and super synchronistic. Like two weeks ago i watched that same interview and had to rewind on that same specific segment, and i was surprised the interviewer just brushed off that answer like it was nothing !!! I know EXACTLY what he means. In that same interview he talks about an experience he had when he was 11, where he said something along the lines of "I came out of the fog". He experienced God in his own consciousness. This is what I experienced about two months ago, for 5 minutes my ego construct was gone, and I experienced the beauty that lies behind this construct. It came in combination with a kundalini awakening over a longer period of time and I even had a psychotic breakdown lol, but it was the best experience I've had in my entire life. Synchronicities became clear as day, I saw meaning and symbolism in everything, the universe was sort of like speaking to me, I felt connected to everything, I felt enormous energy, purpose, clarity and creativity. When you experience this you just KNOW what God is. And it became even more clear to me how the current society and way of thinking about the world leads you in the complete other direction. Every human has the ability to experience this. Every, single, one, of, us. "I am in the father and the father is in me" = "My individual consciousness is in the universal consciousness, and the universal consciousness is in me."

I studied Carl Jung he was such an amazing man, I TRULY BELIEVED He WAS WAY AGHEAD OF HIS TIME IN HIS EXCELLENT TEACINGS. In my studies to becoming a Psychoanalyst many years ago. I found him to be one the most humble of teachers. Thank you so much FOR YOUR VIDEOS.

To those who are seeking gnosis, and finding true self, I commend you with the highest compassion, as I know how hard this journey is. Recently, I've felt like my ego is a wounded animal, desperate to self preserve by identifying with my highest self. Sometimes it feels like I'm going insane, trying to outwit my ego, but through meditation, I can reach this peace of true self, as I become cellularly one with the Source. And I'm happy for everyone else on this path with me. Jung is such an inspiration.

This recording was the moment I knew I loved and admire this man, I actially take months at a time off grid. Thank you for doing the work @Thoughtsonthinking 💛

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Do you believe that tiktok is shit? "I Dont need to believe , I know"

Intriguing, and with a touch of mysticism besides logic; Carl Gustav Jung explains it well. Enough said. Thumbs up.

He says I know God because he knows himself.

‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭1:13‭-‬14‬ ‭NKJV‬ [13] And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised. [14] I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind

I am part Lakota, the wicasa wakan (shamans) of the Lakota used to speak of Wakan Tanka, the “Great Mystery” similarly: “Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy. This center which is here, but which we know is really everywhere, is Wakan Tanka” -Nicholas Black Elk

I love that your thumbnail inadvertently connects two people greatly influenced by the mystical (interfaith) Christian, Emanuel Swedenborg - William Blake and Carl Jung. He's also called by Suzuki, the Buddha of the North.

God is a word with a meaning moving towards "Absolute". God to science is absolute knowledge, but science does not call absolute knowledge God. People say God is "Absolute Love" or that God is "Absolute Answer" or God is ''Absolute Peace" or God is "Absolute Power" or God is "Absolute Passion" or God is "Absolute Principle". This is peoples attempt to reach the "Absolute" of an idea then attempting to define this idea into a meaning that is understandable. Then when you finally understand you get to understand beauty, but beauty was always there in the stories you just didn't understand why this was God. You're a child in a story who is trying to remember why, who, when, what and how.

I call it intelligence, intelligence is in everything from the cell, to the atom, to the electron to the quark and beyond. It’s not perfect and is not automatically good but continues on giving unconditional love.

I'm binge watching your videos. Interesting topics man thank you

4:00 reminded me of a poem by ibn arabi Listen, O dearly beloved! I am the reality of the world, the centre of the circumference, I am the parts and the whole. I am the will established between Heaven and Earth, I have created perception in you only in order to be the object of My Perception. If then you perceive Me, you perceive yourself. But you cannot perceive Me through yourself. It is through My Eyes that you see Me and see yourself, Through your eyes you cannot see Me. Dearly beloved! I have called you so often and you have not heard Me. I have shown Myself to you so often and you have not seen Me. I have made Myself fragrance so often, and you have not smelled Me, Savorous food, and you have not tasted Me. Why can you not reach Me through the object you touch Or breathe Me through sweet perfumes? Why do you not see Me? Why do you not hear Me? Why? Why? Why? For you My delights surpass all other delights, And the pleasure I procure you surpasses all other pleasures. For you I am preferable to all other good things, I am Beauty, I am Grace. Love Me, love Me alone. Love yourself in Me, in Me alone. Attach yourself to Me, No one is more inward than I. Others love you for their own sakes, I love you for yourself. And you, you flee from Me. Dearly beloved! You cannot treat Me fairly, For if you approach Me, It is because I have approached you. I am nearer to you than yourself, Than your soul, than your breath. Who among creatures Would treat you as I do? I am jealous of you, over you, I want you to belong to no other, Not even to yourself. Be Mine, be for Me as you are in Me, Though you are not even aware of it. Dearly beloved! Let us go toward Union. And if we find the road That leads to separation, We will destroy separation. Let us go hand in hand. Let us enter the presence of Truth. Let It be our judge And imprint Its seal upon our union For ever. From: Henri Corbin. Creative Sufism ‘Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, p. 174-75

In an interview on his 80th birthday, Jung said: "But do you know who anticipated my entire psychology in the eighteenth century? The Hassidic Rabbi Baer from Meseritz, whom they called the Great Maggid. He was a most impressive man." What's interesting is that when Rabbi Dov Ber's disciple Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev returned from visiting him, he was asked what he gained. "You believe in God, but I know." Knowledge means an intimate connection and sense of other, as we see when Adam was intimate with Eve, the Torah's language is: "And Adam knew Eve."

“God is an energy that gave us power (soul) to produce energy through a cycle which LIFE .” My intuition

I am who I am because of the great I am. I AM! I am significant. I am worthy. I am loved. My Gods love be with you all.

Chinese Proverb, You Learn More from a Fools Question, than you would a Wise Man's Answer.Only those who Don't Know, Nor Believe, Will Have the Need to Ask Another, Such a Question. No Matter How Much they Believe or Pretend to Believe. Great Video, Subscribed 👍

This man has pierced through the veil.

What would a church look like, if Jung was the pastor? I really do value this question, for important reasons that may be obvious.

He may have known of his own god, but he did not say he was a believer in Jesus Christ... or he would have said so. To each's own.

Believing to belief must go thru transformations (IMHO). 1. hope, there is/there isn't, for the same reason - I hope either one will work, but hope is not knowing. 2. faith based upon trusting, doing, it (seems to), works & faith is built but faith is still not knowing. 3. fact/knowing becuz something has been proven to YOU. Something you cannot prove to others, don't need to, but trust because transformation has brought one to this "fact", a knowing, & a fact is something one "knows" because it has been proven to them.

Thank you for reading this, I appreciated listening to it and it confirms an assumption I had made when I saw this interview a couple of years ago. I had an experience in my teenage years and a number since and Jung's views resonate with my own. You mention Jordan Petersen's views are similar and that this because of the influence on him from reading Jung, possibly true, though I'm sure many share these thoughts simply out of experience too.

God simply is, its like truth, truth simply is, God or truth are universal in understanding, it/they simply are.

List of music in the video? Especially the outro. U have great tase and a good sense of what audio pairs well with the visual presentation

Can you explain what he ment in one sentence?

A power greater than oneself. Jung had a very interesting take on alcoholic recovery concerning spirituality also. He knows.

"Why go to the forest for finding god? He resides inside you find him there" - guru nanak founder of sikhism

Please, is there a way to cite this footage?

Why did you put flashy glitch effects over the pictures and put heavy rock music as a backround on the video, focusing on Carl Jung?

If somebody answers the God question with just a yes or no does not actually understand the question

Epic, this man is genius

There are two types of people: those who believe and those who don't and the last are already condemned. Knowledge without repentance is still not good.

What’s that intro song ?

consciousness is god.

A transcript will be more helpful than just a video.

OK but can someone explain the explanation?

i got into jung some time ago. it's weird because I arrived on the same conclusion from another angle (to me god was Chaos), but i see a commonality and a bridge between his and mine interpretation: the Self is all the possibilities of what i could become from birth. at that moment it was pure chaos, or it would have been determined to be something else (still, in the limits given by being a human). knowing yourself, your mind, is the same as meeting the personal god he talks about, in which they're both pure chaos. only chaos can have an essence: the other things are structured and formed in an orderly way by things around them, by laws of physics or our interpretation of them. your Self then gets formed by your experiences and actions, what you've perceived and what you've produced, narrowing down a path of habit and identification to external things to itSelf, creating your personality, a mask that covers your essence. uncovering that mask is caused by a psychedelic experience (like schizophrenia, where you don't have to make an effort to discover your mind, because you project it on the external world. other kinds of psychosis lock you in into the chain, diverting it from going in a straight line to going in a loop. you then see your mind not because of a projection, but because of habit) or thought (like jung's realization that you're both a subject and an object. this happens early in childhood and could explain why everybody has believed in a god, unconsciously, until they decided they didn't, because they couldn't experience it nor think about it. but there are more psychedelic thoughts like that one: any one that produces doubt about your identity, or the state of the world, and makes you wonder about the possibilities that were discarded and never realized), your mind reveals itself and you have access to its structures. with enough effort and time, you could destructure it layer by layer, going back in the causal determined chain of events that happened to you more and more as the possibilities were reduced to the life that you have lived.

Deus est circulus cuius centrum est ubique, cuis circumferentia vero nusquam. [God is a circle whose center is everywhere, but whose circumference is nowhere]

St Thomas Aquinas- "The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable."

TY TY This adds a Lot 2 CJ's words.

When as a young person you believe in a fulfilment to be wholesome as a person and the journey in life that is yours to choose (whatever comes along the way) to believe in God to be of completion of oneself, is to be as good as one can be upon realisation of the past mistakes that are almost inevitable in whatever road life takes you down. From a man's point of view his utmost goal allegedly is to be of his own making of fulfilment as said to know his own God.

Dr. Jung was a mystic, a brilliant, spiritual, and professional mystic.

Dude what was that music in the background. Those melodies were SICK

Amazing comments by Jung , humility & wisdom! had to listen twice 😂

Where can we find this letter?

ALL the misunderstandings/confusions/stupid behaviour of human beings can be put under one heading....... "belief".

Soooooo many people just didnt get this AT ALL, according to the comment section.

Joseph Campbell said that God is a metaphor for all the energy in the universe. This is the best explanation I have ever heard of who or what God is.

intro song??

I use to wonder if there was a God then I saved a drowning child, now I know with absolute certainty that there is a force, which cares about drowning children, that I choose to call God. (7/26) Seems to me people assign their own belief of what God is to everyone else then hate them for believing it. Why I was guided to that lake that day and given the strength to help that child I can only wonder, and often do, but it was a blessing for everyone involved and certainly changed my life because after that.. "I knew". I don't try to describe it but I like how Einstein did: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." If you're not open to learning something I can promise you will never know.

Are you aware of the philosopher Alfred Whitehead and his process-relational metaphysics? There have been a few connections between the Whitehead's philosophy and that of Jung's.

In which publication can this letter be found?

Nameless......Creator......Energy.......Vibration.......Names have limits.......Its far beyond our comprehension......but for me personally.....Wherever there s Creation...There s a Creator......Thank you for Creating this video.....I can only keep it simple at this time...... KISS.......

Many people speak to God, it makes them happy and confident...I like to speak to myself, it makes me feel happy and confident.

Awesome man, I've never really been religious but I've always been spiritual and curious. Jung's work into our psyche is as, if not more, vital than Einstein's work on our understanding of the nature of space. We should continue to strive forth on both fronts. I would love to see the similarities on Peterson's and Jung's views.

what deity do you refer to when you speak of god what are the reference points caricature revealing light desired traits embellishments that move global awareness forward by steadfast willful hope for a better tomorrow

Could you put a link to the complete letter plz ?

carl jung heavily influenced AA, which has the phrases "god as you understand him" or "higher power". 14 years ago I turned myself over to a power greater than myself. I became sober, undepressed, and had a great life. about 7-8 years later I became a science teacher and then started to identify as agnostic/atheist. I became physically disabled. I live with chronic pain. I thought very seriously about trying to pursue assisted suicide in a legal manner in a different country. I finally decided again to try the "God delusion" as Hawkins would call it. I started reading spiritual books again. I start praying and meditating again. some minutes I am a believer in the sublime. in other minutes, I cannot wait for my stardust to return to the universe and begin their long decay into nothingness. However, I am happiest when I am working towards some goal to help others with a steady belief that my higher power is using me in some small way for the good of all. you can call me a fool, you can call me whatever, I don't care anymore what people think of me for the most part. I once had dream that went roughly as so. it was a surreal dream. I woke up in my childhood room, but things were slightly different. I was sleeping on my cot from daycare. I heard God's voice call to me in a low yet still thunderous rumble. I crawled out my window, saying "God is that you"? to which he replied "yes!!!". I then said "prove it" and I saw the largest shooting star I had ever seen. to which I responded, "well that could be a coincidence". then the entire sky turned to white from shooting stars, and yet still I said "this could all be a coincidence". but then God spoke my name with such a thundering power that I felt his presence and it was undeniable. humbled, I fell to the ground said, "I am so glad I found! I have been looking for you everywhere, there is so much I want to know!" to which God responded with a chuckle "ok, what do you want to know". Immediately with no hesitation, I blurted out "EVERYTHING!!!. God just chuckled again and said, "ok, let's go". we took off at the speed of light and God taught me everything in an instant that lasted for an eternity. God then said, "okay you are going to wake up, but you won't remember anything that I taught you, except......" Reflexively I started to want to protest, but after a split second, a lump in my throat caught the first syllable. How could I argue with God. with humility I nodded to his decree. God laughed a final time. it's a laugh that that gives you nirvana and God said, "just remember that I am". then I woke up. I had been having a number of sleep paralysis dreams prior to this dream. they went away and did not come back for years. Years later I read that God revealed himself to Moses in a similar way. Moses called him Yahweh which means, "I am" part of the time I know it truly was God. the other part the time I doubt it. However, when life goes wrong. I lean on that concept of God for my sanity. at these times I would say "I know there is a God, I met him, and the dude is funny as fuck".

At one point, Jung delved into mystical in as much as his family reported seeing spirits in their home. I suggest people read the Red Book but with caution as it can open up dangerous ideas and can lead some to the occult.

Is there a source to this? :D

Are you going to pick up the black books when they’re available?

Carl Jung wrote some very powerful works.

How about Jung packing heat at 2:00

Can somebody please link me that letter so I can read it?

Can you give the letter?

He uses a large vocabulary to abstractly describe already understood basic concepts of 'God' in a very elaborate fashion. He also said 'I know' to peak peoples interest in his views not as he further explained. I really believe if you are not pretending and can follow and grasp everything he rattles of it isn't very insightful or inspiring at all.

Smart people don't "believe"-the rest need to....

Dr. Jung was such a brilliant man! I am better for learning for him.

Very easy to understand-Jung also travelled to India and said himself in the latter part of life 'That his love for Ramana Mahrishi Was his Knowing

Absolute genius!

I can hear Cloud Kicker in the background. Nice music taste, also intelectual taste haha. Cheers!

Carl Jung's letter to you… the difference between believing and knowing. Sir, - So many letters I have received have emphasized my statement about 'knowing' (of God) [in ‘Face to Face’, THE LISTENER, October 29]. My opinion about ‘knowledge of God’ is an unconventional way of thinking, and I quite understand if it should be suggested that I am no Christian. Yet I think of myself as a Christian since I am entirely based upon Christian concepts. I only try to escape their internal contradictions by introducing a more modest attitude, which takes into consideration the immense darkness of the human mind. The Christian idea proves its vitality by a continuous evolution, just like Buddhism. Our time certainly demands some new thought in this respect, as we cannot continue to think in an antique or medieval way, when we enter the sphere of religious experience. I did not say in the broadcast, ‘There is a God’, I said ‘I do not need to believe in God; I know’. Which does not mean: I do know a certain God (Zeus, Jahwe, Allah, the Trinitarian God, etc.) but rather: I do know that I am obviously confronted with a factor unknown in itself, which I call 'God' in consensu omnium (‘quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus creditur’). I remember Him, I evoke Him, whenever I use His name overcome by anger or by fear, whenever I involuntarily say: ‘Oh God’. That happens when I meet somebody or something stronger than myself. It is an apt name given to all overpowering emotions in my own psychical system subduing my conscious will and usurping control over myself. This is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse. In accordance with tradition I call the power of fate in this positive as well as negative aspect, and inasmuch as its origin is beyond my control, 'god', a 'personal god', since my fate means very much myself, particularly when it approaches me in the form of conscience as a vox Dei, with which I can even converse and argue. (We do and, at the same time, we know that we do. One is subject as well as object.) Yet I should consider it an intellectual immorality to indulge in the belief that my view of a god is the universal, metaphysical Being of the confessions or 'philosophies'. I do neither commit the impertinence of a hypostasis, nor of an arrogant qualification such as: 'God can only be good'. Only my experience can be good or evil, but I know that the superior will is based upon a foundation which transcends human imagination. Since I know of my collision with a superior will in my own psychical system, I know of God, and if I should venture the illegitimate hypostasis of my image, I would say, of a God beyond good and evil, just as much dwelling in myself as everywhere else: Deus est circulus cuius centrum est ubique, cuis circumferentia vero nusquam.

"There are only two kinds of people in this world, one who has a mind but has no belief and one who has a religion but has no mind" said the Arab phliosopher "Al-Ma'arri" or as known by his latin name "Abulola Moarrensis" wrote more than a thousand years ago in his "Epistle of Forgiveness".

111k likes in 3 months?! Yess ppl are exploring the unconscious again :) there may be hope :’-)

God created all the universes , but man created all these religions that tell how God wants you to act , that has always been the big lie , all we need to honor and cherish is this planet and how to make it better for all mankind

I just realized that I don't understand the difference between hypostasis and hypokeimenon. Hoping someone here can explain

To comfort oneself is our traits. One method is by listening to religion's claims especially when old comparing to listening to music when young.

Carl Jung sure is a friendly chap; prob easier to have a beer with than most. Thumbs up #913 i think carl jung tackled every possible angle humanly possible in his written letter-response. We have to remember, we have common experiences as humans but there is no common way of retelling, nor sharing them; the best we can do is to acknowledge the uniqueness of each contribution, and highlight those that encourage a similar journey. Very inspiring. Thumbs up again (if possible) END

Carl Jung and Jordan Peterson are two of the most inspirational people. They could literally save the world between them 😊

Did you make the video? 😅

Successfully avoids answering the question, while appearing to completely answer the question. He understood the mission..my man, CGJ.

Still have no idea what he meant...

"We" are all prisoners born of "God's" conception, therefore "God" has yet to be born. Try and think of what happens in the split-second an egg becomes fertilized., now imagine on a god-scale from within higher intra-dimensional levels that "we", along with nature/physical reality, are the byproduct of that process unfolding. So there's no reason whatsoever to fear or worship., THAT which "we" all are already a part of. The Shiva Linga is the precursor of the Holy Trinity in describing what is taking place across intra-dimensional levels of existence of a singular being's metamorphosis into..., a God? Just as the physical universes experience multiple crunches and expansions like a heartbeat., this being "we" are all part of, will eventually reach a stage in its progress where it will withdraw into itself all of the knowledge or data acquired through experiences from those separate individual consciousnesses whose Souls were able to make it through and beyond the life stages of Mineral, Vegetable and Animal. That's all "we" are., packets of information whose ego-identity becomes sacrificed upon subsumption into the One. Do any of you know what you're really asking for in seeking ultimate liberation? If you enjoy inhabiting a human or any other form capable of expressing your individual character and Will., you're not ready for mergence. With that said., Who are my parents?

Mate you’re doing really well

“God is a Circle” If you want to understand this then you must understand the flower of life.

He’s talking about Brahma.

A good philosopher would first ask 'what do you mean by 'god?''.

Thanks for putting this out there man. But some constructive criticism: your voice is extra monotone and the video effects were a bit annoying and took away from the context.

Carl like jorden peterson , Never assumes one thing, These minds are gifted for you and me to express the genuine amidst the delution..

God is a substitute for the unconditional love not given by the majority of parents.

“Do you believe that mint chocolate chip ice cream is awesome?” “I don’t need to believe, I know.”

I appreciate the video! Fascinating❤

The only GOD I need is My Consciousness. It NEVER fails Me. Never!