Karl Jung, The Collected Works Volume 18, The Symbolic Life (1939), Princeton University Press, p. 281. The chapter is itself called "The Symbolic Life", and Jung was asked two questions, the first of which is the most relevant:
First, had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?
"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god). That can be the historic future."
[let's recall that during WWII the Nazis developed ever closer ties with Islam Militant, including a formal pact with the Mufti of Jerusalem. As for the current admiration for Al Douaf Heider in Islam, [subtle, sophisticated, and wonderfully nuanced as no doubt it is ] do we detect a soupcon of New Islam in Old Halal Bottles?
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Jung was an idiot, but a stopped clock is right twice a day. BTW, what about Nietzsche and religion? Wasn't he down on the Slave's Religion?
Religion of Slaves or Religion of Slave Meisters? I believe he was Very Down on the first. I'll let MFT tell us if he was Very Up on the second
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