For the Christian to claim entry into the further reaches of Jung's vision without the painful — perhaps impossible — facing of the hitherto excluded Christian shadow would be to betray the ardor of his spirit for a cheaply gained wisdom and attenuated sense of the sacred. If we are to truly assimilate his message, then the reasons for our current spiritual truncation, the extent of our onesidedness, and our prolonged and energetic fight against the divinely proferred wholeness which our nature demands must be faced in depth.

This will require what we all would rather avoid: sustained and soul-searching reflection on the illness that we are.