Okay this is getting ridiculous.

Busy does not even begin to describe it. Luckily, there's a whole lot of Internet out there and I'm sure I'm not disappointing anyone. Thought I'd rush this up here while I had the book open because I really, really have not had time to do anything that I couldn't at least work into a footnote in the senior project for a long time... OK, that's not strictly true, but it's been a battle to maintain my sanity. Anyway I've been reading a lot of Jung, so here is some for you; this bit of commentary comes after Jung using the description of a dream of a young theological student, who dreamed confusingly of a White Magician and a Black Magician working together to find the lost keys of Paradise, in order to explain his idea of the Geist/Spirit archetype (this is not indicated to be the Holy Spirit, just to clear that up--Jung is exceptionally confusing on that point, but here he is speaking in the context of answering the call to become a full person) which appears in dreams in order to compensate for and represent a level of insight the dreamer needs but cannot achieve with his current resources. (The Essential Jung, Jung ed. Storr, 1983: "Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales" p. 127)

Here the compensation certainly did not fall out as the dreamer could wish, by handing him a solution on a plate; rather it confronted him with a problem to which I have already alluded, and one which life is always bringing us up against: namely, the uncertainty of all moral valuation, the bewildering interplay of good and evil, and the remorseless concatenation of guilt, suffering, and redemption. This path to the primordial religious experience is the right one, but how many can recognize it? It is like a still small voice, and it sounds from afar. It is ambiguous, questionable, dark, presaging danger and hazardous adventure; a razor-edged path, to be trodden for God's sake only, without assurance and without sanction.