The Red Book by Jung about his traipsing through his deep mind, (without a guide or religious framework) At least Dante had Virgil.

Alex Berezov

".....Jungian scholars mulling over the recordings of The Red Book. Lionel Corbett interprets..... (Jung's) conscious belief in Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous statement that God — the Christian God — was dead, and that He needed to be replaced with a different source of meaning lest the collective unconscious collapse and society spiral into nihilism."

But there really isn't a replacement for God, as God is reality. So a denial of reality. Jung seems to be right that the collapse of the Christian paradigm in the west (Taoists and Muslims and Buddhists have their own collective agreement on reality) and the western limited collective agreement is spinning the developed west world off into their collective consciousness without God. We are now seeing the results of the death of Christian paradigm. Sort of an insect hive mind without meaning, a wallowing in simple materialism. No transcendence. Not a good place to be.

Tim adds:

Everything we've tried to use to replace the Christian God winds up leading us deeper into nihilism as it all shows itself to be false gods. Fascism was an attempt to make a god of the collective will. Naziism to make a god of the People and their genetic heritage. Communism attempted to deify economics. We've had Scientism. We've had the vainity of hedonism and epicureanism. All things have led us further down the path towards despiar and nihilism. 

God is the Real Thing. Accept no substitutes!

1 Thank you for sharing this thought-provoking article about the collective consciousness and the search for a replacement for the Christian God. It raises the question of whether any alternatives can truly fulfill the role of God, and I find it challenging to believe that such replacements can provide the same sense of transcendence and meaning. | hauling services.

2 Thanks Lucie. Yeah; there will be no replacement because it's like replacing the sun with a tanning lamp.