1 know that the Buddhists would say, as indeed they do: if only people would follow the noble eightfold path of the Dharma (doctrine, law) and had true insight into the Self; or the Christians: if only people had the right faith in the Lord; or the rationalist: if people could only be intelligent and reasonable—then all problems would be manageable and solvable.
The trouble is that none of them manages to solve these problems himself.
Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days.
When I hear such ^questions, it always makes me think of the Rabbi who was asked: how it could be that God often showed himself to people in the
olden days but that nowadays one no longer saw him.
The | Rabbi replied: "Nor is there anyone nowadays who could stoop so low."
This answer hits the nail on the head. We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have simply forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
The Buddhist discards the world of unconscious fantasies as “distractions” and useless illusions; the Christian puts his Church and his Bible between himself and his unconscious; and the rationalist intellectual does not yet know that his consciousness is not his total psyche, in spite of the fact that for more than seventy years the unconscious has been a basic scientific concept that is indispensable to any serious student of psychology ~Carl Jung, CW18, Paras 600-601
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