God Arises
The Life We Seek
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it. Human life inspite of all its material advances,
lies consequently in ruins.
It is spiritual starvation which has reduced man to
his present state of mental turmoil in which he
constantly seeks to satisfy his desires. Man is in
conflict with himself, and the resulting disasters are
plain for all to see. Scholars with great expertise in
this field are the first to admit that man’s
psychological ills stem from his abandonment of
God. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1960), the eminent
Swiss psychiatrist, has this to say:
During the past thirty years, people from all
the civilized countries of the earth have
consulted me. I have treated many hundreds
of patients. Among all my patients in the
second half of life—that is to say, over thirty
five—there has not been one whose problem
in the last resort was not that of finding a
religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that
every one of them fell ill because he had lost
that which the living religions of every age
have given to their followers, and none of
