Richard Dawkin's book 'The God Delusion' appeals to the increasingly secular world of Western culture. However, it only negates the existence of the God of religion, not the divine, the spiritual per se. Our need to be in touch with the divine is evidenced by increasing participation in other spiritual practices. With the decline of formal religions there has been an increased interest in various other forms of spiritual practice - keying in the 'spirituality' category on Amazon books and there are 75 pages of them (a few are 'religious' but the vast majority are not). This need was a view taken by Jung at a time when religions were still more paramount, it being an inherent part of everyone's psyche and he saw that it could be experienced in many ways, according to what suits the individual.
He wrote "Christian education has done all that is humanly possible; but it has not been enough. Too few people have experienced the divine image as the innermost possession of their own souls"
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