Show Notes
What if God isn't dead — but hiding inside you? In this episode of The Prometheans, Ali Zaka sits down with Dr. Murray Stein — one of the world's foremost Jungian analysts, former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and author of the landmark Jung's Map of the Soul (published in 13 languages) — to ask one of the most unsettling questions at the intersection of faith and science: does psychology explain religion away, or does it confirm something religion always knew? Dr. Stein's life is itself a clue to the answer. Born to a Baptist preacher, trained for ordained ministry at Yale Divinity School, then drawn into depth psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich — he didn't leave religion behind. He went deeper into it. For over five decades, his work has sat at the precise fault line where the soul meets the psyche, where God-language and psychology speak in each other's accent. Together, we explore: → What Jung actually meant by the "God-image" — and why it's not the same as saying God is an illusion → The numinous: what happens when the unconscious breaks through with overwhelming force → Answer to Job — Jung's most scandalous text, and what it means for God to have a shadow → The difference between individuation and salvation — do they converge or diverge? → Why Freud's "religion is neurosis" and Jung's "religion is real data" are not the same argument → What the psyche of a secular age is telling us about its own spiritual hunger → Islam, Christianity, Judaism — can one psychological framework hold all God-images at once? This is not a debate between faith and doubt. It is a conversation about what happens when you take both seriously — when you refuse to let psychology kill God and refuse to let theology ignore the unconscious. The Prometheans is a podcast on interfaith dialogue and philosophy of religion, hosted by Ali Zaka. 🔔 Subscribe and join a community that thinks hard about what it means to be human.
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