Hence do not wait until rawly bungling hands of men hack your God to pieces, but embrace him again, lovingly; until he has taken on the form of his first beginning.
– Carl Jung, The Red Book, pages 283-284
If I hold onto certain images of God, they can be hacked to pieces since reality always is more than and different from my images of it.
I find it fascinating to examine my own images of God and find what’s more true for me.
Piece by piece, it softens or removes places where I hold onto images. Where I make myself stuck. Where life can rub up against these images, and I may find myself struggling in the gap between the images and reality.
POSSIBLE IMAGES OF GOD
Our images of God obviously largely depend on our culture and subcultures.
We may have an image of God as male, leaving out the feminine.
We may have images of God as a being, or perhaps nature, or perhaps all there is.
We may have images of God as emptiness, oneness, love, and so on.
In each case, it can be helpful to examine our images and find what’s more true for us.
EXAMINING OUR IMAGES
How do we examine these images?
We can do it more informally.
Or we can use structured inquiry to guide us and help in the early phases of these explorations, or any time to go a bit deeper into unfamiliar territory.
I find exploring my sense fields helpful, especially using Living Inquiries.
And I have also found The Work of Byron Katie very helpful