“Just as man, as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the Community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence and his own spiritual and moral autonomy anywhere except in the extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors. The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world. For this he needs the evidence of inner, transcendent experience which alone can protect him from the otherwise inevitable submersion in the mass. Merely intellectual or eve moral insight into the stultification and moral irresponsibility man is a negative recognition only and amounts to not much more than a wavering on the road to the atomization of the individual. It lacks the driving force of religious conviction since it is merely rational. The dictator state has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up the religious forces. The state takes the place of God: that is why, seen from this angle, the socialist dictatorships are religions and state slavery is a form of worship. But the religious function cannot cannot be dislocated and falsified in this way without rise to secret doubts, which are immediately suppressed repressed so as to avoid conflict with the prevailing trend toward mass-madness.” ~Carl G. Jung
The Need for Community
For thousands of years, awakened spiritual individuals have forms communities. They may have been called schools, academies, or other terms, but they were all communities. Why? The answer is simple: on a spiritual level, we give each other strength and conviction when we work together. Others in the community can help us defend ourselves when we are being attacked, whether by human or supernatural forces. We can learn from each other in a community. Most of all, such a community project a mass aura of protection around itself that helps shield them from the evils of the world.
Justification for Existence
As a puppet of the corporate-state entity currently in power, most never even try to justify their existence. They accept as normal that they are but a tiny cog in the great machine of commerce and government. Only a few start to question this life, and they are usually suppressed rather quickly in one way or another.
For those who do start to question, it is hard to justify their existence as anything but accidental and meaningless when they don’t believe in God, or some higher force. After all, what could give you purpose other than something higher than that repressive industrial-military complex running the physical world?
Need for God
Whether we speak of God, the Universe, the All, or some other name for the Creator, we must be, as Jung says, anchored in God. This means more than a vague belief that there is a good, and more than just attending church services as a social obligation more than a truly spiritual one. We must not only recognize that God exists, but have a strong desire to serve and obey God. We must recognize that this Supreme Power is greater than the state if we are to escape the slavery of the state.
Merely Intellectual
Jung says that merely intellectual or moral insight, contrary to what most atheists claim, is not enough to overcome the control of the state and business interests. As Jung puts it, it is but a wavering on the road of state slavery. So if you really want to escape state slavery, and awaken your spiritual faculties, you must believe in God and believe that serving God is your best option to state slavery.
