E.1-3: The Jungian Path to Christ: A Holy Undoing of the False Self
Season 1: Episode 3
The Jungian Path to Christ: A Holy Undoing of the False Self
In this episode you will learn:
🔥 Why becoming whole starts with being undone
🧠 How Jung’s idea of individuation mirrors the path of holiness
💬 What it means to follow Christ not as a label — but as The Way
✝️ Why early Christians embraced mystery over certainty — and transformation over perfection
Episode length: 11:00
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Transcript
What if your struggles — the anxiety, the doubts, the ache for meaning —
weren’t signs of failure…
but invitations?
What if the Holy Spirit wasn’t asking you to fix yourself —
but to become yourself?Jung called it individuation.
Christ called it holiness.And both begin with the same thing:
a call from within…
that undoes you before it makes you whole.Today, we’re stepping into the mystery of transformation —
not the kind that polishes you,
but the kind that burns away everything false,
until only the image of God remains. It’s time to Awaken Holy Wonder.Stay with me.
the cornerstone of jungian psychology
The cornerstone of Jungian psychology is individuation.
You could say Jungian psychology recognizes that the psyche has a goal:
for you to become who God made you to be.
• Moses had to go into the wilderness before God could speak.
• Jeremiah heard God before he was born — and spent most of his life wrestling with that call.
These weren’t people with perfect theology.
They were people gripped from within — often with trembling.
Their stories are symbolic of our own.
We, too, are called into unknown places —
not just external deserts, but internal landscapes.
“Individuation is a kind of inner Exodus —
the Spirit leads you out of who you thought you were
and into who you really are in Christ.”
Sometimes it’s an exodus from culture,
sometimes from our own Christian subcultures.
“To individuate is to say yes to the slow, sacred work of the Holy Spirit —
peeling away everything false, until what remains is the image of God in you, made whole.”
It’s not always clean or pretty.
Sometimes it feels like fire in your bones.
Sometimes like a voice from the depths of a well.
But it’s real. And it’s the path.
In the early church, they didn’t call themselves Christians.
They called themselves followers of The Way —
hē hodos in Greek.
It wasn’t a label — it was a path.
A way of being.
A way of living in response to the Risen Christ.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life.” — John 14:6
Individuation is also a path.
Not about being right —
but being real.
Being transformed.
“The early Christians didn’t call themselves a religion.
They called themselves The Way.
It wasn’t about belief alone —
it was about transformation.
And that’s exactly what Jung meant when he spoke of individuation.
It’s a way — often hard, always personal —
that leads us deeper into who God made us to be.”
st. teresa of avila
🎯 Symbolic Prompt
Let me ask you…
🌀 What does it mean to you
that you follow Christ as The Way,
the Truth, and the Life?
How does Christ move from within you?
📖 Teresa of Ávila
Centuries before Jung, a Carmelite nun in Spain
was writing about the same inner journey.
Her name was St. Teresa of Ávila, and her book, Interior Castle,
describes the soul as a radiant, crystalline castle
with many rooms — each one drawing you closer to God.
At first, we linger in the outer rooms —
distracted, restless, unaware of what lies within.
But the journey begins with a holy tug — a call inward.
“The door of this castle is prayer,” she wrote.
And every step inside — even the painful ones —
brings you closer to where God dwells within your soul.
This mirrors Jung’s idea of individuation so beautifully.
We move inward not by fixing ourselves,
but by shedding what isn’t true.
By meeting symbols in dreams,
by facing fear, by surrendering ego.
In Teresa’s vision, we are stripped and refined by light.
In Jung’s psychology, we are slowly restored to the image of God.
And at the center of both paths…
God.
A union of soul and Spirit.
Teresa called it spiritual marriage.
Jung called it individuation.
Either way — it’s wholeness. It’s home.
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💬 Personal Story: Facing Fear, Finding Fruitfulness
When I grew deeper in my walk with God, I didn’t feel more settled —
I actually had more fears surface:
Fears of never getting married.
Fears of being misunderstood.
Fears of outgrowing my friends… or my church.
And some deeper fears, too —
especially about my health.
I was born with Cerebral Palsy that affects my right side.
And though I’d lived with it my whole life,
I had never really confronted what it symbolized.
I feared that if I got too close to God,
He would ask me to face those fears.
And He did.
But it wasn’t to punish me.
It was to bring me home.
I began to realize — I wasn’t becoming more fragile.
I was becoming more whole.
This is individuation.
And in that process, something unexpected happened —
I could love more deeply.
I wasn’t as judgmental.
I could meet people where their meaning lived.
When I married my husband,
I realized our best work happened
when we explored the deep things of God together.
Going deeper in God didn’t make me detached from others.
It made me more grounded.
More loving.
More fruitful.
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🙌 Call to Action
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I walk you through how I applied these practices —
and what happened next.
You’ll get all the tools to awaken what’s stirring within you,
and to experience your Christian faith
as a Spirit-led path — not just a belief system.
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Following The Way meant being changed from the inside out —
responding to an inner call, not just external law.
That’s exactly what Jung meant by individuation:
🧭 The path of the soul
• Not self-improvement — but self-becoming
• Not a straight path — but a winding journey
• Not theology alone — but experience
• Not perfection — but wholeness
And that’s what the early Christians lived, too —
transformation by the Spirit, not just doctrine.
“When early Christians called their path The Way,
they weren’t talking about a belief system.
They were talking about a journey —
one led by the Spirit,
shaped by mystery and community,
and filled with transformation.”
Jung called this individuation.
The Gospels call it becoming like Christ.
Either way —
it’s not something you think your way into.
It’s something you walk into,
one hard, holy step at a time.
📝 Now, take a moment to reflect…
What is Christ showing you
in His image as The Way?
And how is He leading you deeper into that path?
🌿 Reflection + Membership Seed
In our paid Christian Jung Community,
we go deeper into these practices
with the goal of spiritual transformation
and psychological wholeness.
Membership is only open a few times each year.
Visit AngelaMeer.com to join us.
We’re going deeper into what individuation really asks of us —
and why Jung saw it as essential for your soul’s health.
We’ll be here every week,
diving deeper into the profound union
of faith and psychology.
Join me again, same time next week,
to continue your journey toward God as Divine Spirit.
🎧 Closing Prayer + Silence
Let’s end in silence.
Sit quietly for a moment…
Let God speak.
What is He showing you now?
🕊️ And we’ll close with these words
from St. Teresa of Ávila:
“Let nothing disturb you,
let nothing frighten you.
All things are passing;
God never changes.”
Amen.