“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” These profound words by St. Paul express the struggle between the desire to do good and the inability to carry it out, due to the power of sin within human nature.

The misalignment between our intentions and our actions is part of our daily life. For example, we may know that we love someone deeply, yet find ourselves acting with wrath towards that person. We want to be humble, but fall into pride. We intend to work hard or study, but give in to sloth. This lack of self-control reveals an inner split, an age-old problem that lies at the heart of the human condition. It is more than mere weakness; it is a symptom of sin. But sin is not just the breaking of moral rules. It is a rupture in our very being, a loss of inner harmony. Since this condition is something we all share, it cannot merely be seen as a personal sickness but as a universal aspect of the human condition.

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⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction1:30 Inner Split and Sin2:41 Hubris, Hamartia, Akrasia4:59 St. Paul: Flesh and Spirit5:48 The Meaning of Sin: To Miss the Mark7:46 Types of Sin10:25 The Worst Sins12:10 The Vicious Cycle of Sin14:56 The Cry of the Soul for Growth16:46 Neurosis: State of Disunity18:00 Projection, Shadow, Sin22:14 Sin Against Your Own Individuality23:20 Sins You Deny, Control You25:58 Catharsis28:10 The Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness31:27 Christian Spiritual Journey32:30 The Psychology of Confession and Secrets41:37 The Greatest Sin: Unconsciousness

In 1952, at the age of seventy-six, Carl Jung wrote Answer to Job in a single burst of energy and with strong emotion. He completed it while ill, following a high fever, and upon finishing, he felt well again. The book explores the nature of God, particularly what Jung perceived as God’s dark side, a theme that preoccupied him throughout his life. In it, the theology first explored in the Red Book—the progressive incarnation of God, and the replacement of the one-sided Christian God with one that encompasses evil within it—found its clearest expression. This makes Answer to Job one of Jung’s most controversial works. Jung wrote in a letter that the book, “released an avalanche of prejudice, misunderstanding, and above all, atrocious stupidity.”

The fundamental idea in Answer to Job is that the pair of opposites is united in the image of Yahweh. God is not divided but is an antinomy—a totality of inner opposites. This paradox is the essential condition for His omniscience and omnipotence. Love and Fear, though seemingly irreconcilable, coexist at the heart of the divine.

The story of Job follows a righteous man whose faith is tested by Satan with God’s permission. Job loses his wealth, children, health, and the support of his friends, who insist he must be guilty. His cries for justice go unheard, so that Satan’s cruel wager can proceed undisturbed. God allows the innocent to suffer. Still, Job is certain that somewhere within God, justice must exist. This paradox leads him to expect, within God, a helper or an “advocate” against God.

Jung flips the traditional understanding of Christ’s work of redemption: it is not an atonement for humanity’s sin against God, but a reparation for a wrong done by God to man.

“God has a terrible double aspect: a sea of grace is met by a seething lake of fire, and the light of love glows with a fierce dark heat of which it is said, “ardet non lucet”—it burns but gives no light. That is the eternal, as distinct from the temporal, gospel: one can love God but must fear him.”

When Jung was once asked how he could live with the knowledge he had recorded in Answer to Job, he replied, “I live in my deepest hell, and from there I cannot fall any further.”

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction4:28 Religion as a Psychic Truth5:31 Job: The Oldest Book of the Bible 8:07 Union of Opposites in God9:54 Abraxas10:55 The Divine Drama: Yahweh and Job15:57 The Creature Surpasses The Creator16:54 Yahweh and Sophia18:09 Abel: Foreshadowing the God-Man 18:58 God Becomes Man21:13 Christ and the Hero’s Myth22:01 Answer to Job22:04 Christ as Archetype of the Self24:31 The Role of Satan27:14 The Role of the Holy Spirit (Paraclete)29:01 Conflict of Opposites and Redemption30:28 Privatio Boni and Summum Bonum31:06 Enantiodromia32:00 Visions and Mental Illness32:32 The Book of Ezekiel33:55 The Book of Enoch37:08 The Book of Revelation46:53 Assumption of Mary48:04 Union of Opposites and Individuation53:30 The Challenge Ahead

Carl Jung published his book Psychological Types in 1921, introducing four functions of consciousness: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, and the two attitudes through which these four functions are deployed: introversion and extraversion.

Jung’s functions follow a fourfold structure, which is typical of the archetype of the Self. We are dealing with the archetype of the differentiation of consciousness, which helps you to become who you are meant to be. Jung combined function types and attitude types to describe, in turn, eight function-attitudes. These were the psychological types in Jung’s original description. However, very few of us, even among psychologists, can recognise the eight function-attitudes described by Jung.

Jungian psychologist John Beebe expands on Jung’s work on types, extending the fourfold model to an eightfold model of personality, as well as associating an archetype with each type. The first four archetypes are: the hero/heroine, the father/mother, the puer aeternus/puella aeterna, and the anima/animus. These are ego-syntonic, as they align harmoniously with the needs and goals of the ego. As for the other four function-attitudes, we enter the realm of the shadow, or the ego-dystonic personality, which includes: the opposing personality, the senex/witch, the trickster and the demonic/daimonic personality.

We may see these eight archetypes as different personalities within the vast theatre of the unconscious. They too have a role to play in our lives, seeking to express themselves outwardly. It is by integrating these archetypes of the collective unconscious that we truly become an individual. This process is at the heart of individuation. It is the journey of discovering your essence—who you were meant to be.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. If we do not gain control over the images within us, we run the risk of them gaining control over us.

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

4:55 Consciousness is the Human Being’s Flower

6:14 The Eight Function-Attitudes

7:08 Extraverted Thinking

9:03 Extraverted Feeling

10:36 Extraverted Sensation

12:11 Extraverted Intuition

13:37 Introverted Thinking

16:08 Introverted Feeling

18:37 Introverted Sensation

20:46 Introverted Intuition

22:35 The Most Difficult Types

23:26 A Dinner Party with the Types

25:00 Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type

27:16 The Eight-Function, Eight-Archetype Model

32:12 Hero/Heroine

33:20 Father/Mother

35:06 Puer Aeternus/Puella Aeterna

36:40 Anima/Animus

40:46 Opposing Personality

42:41 Senex/Witch

45:41 Trickster

47:11 Demonic/Daimonic Personality

49:32 Conclusion