Jung succinctly points out in his letter to Bill W., "(A)lcohol in Latin is 'spiritus' and you use the same word for the highest religious experience as well as the most depraving poison. The helpful formula therefore is: "spiritus contra spiritum."
In an age where modern psychiatry all too often submits to the alleged efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs – and the inherent problems of abuse, addiction and psychological malaise which accompanies this – perhaps only the integration of a Jungian approach to understanding the “soul” (however one might define it) will bring us towards the numinous and allow us to break free of the increasing feeling of dislocation and despair faced by modern man.
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