Jung: supportive evidence - religion as promotion of personal and social mindsets arising from religious belief

Jung saw support for his theories from his  observation that humans have collective ideas and common ethics found in all religions

• Religious belief was seen as aiding individuation and leading to wholeness of the individual

Jung recognised that there was a significant difference between Western and Asian minds

• The Western mind is extroverted and in search of an outer reality; the Asian mind is introverted and in search of the source of all existence, the psyche itself

Jung saw particular value in the Asian techniques of meditation

• In Buddhist meditation, removal of ignorance is vital
• The meditative practice is similar to the God archetype that involves…