The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

Suppose you live in the jungle all your life.
One day i pop up and i give you a radio.
I tell you that inside the radio there is music.
You may say......where the hell is the music?
I say to you.......if you want to get the music you got to tune up the radio to some station.
After you tune up you can listen the music.
The same thing apply to the perception of God.
God is within but you will never know until you tune up and that is not as easy as to tune up a radio.
It require a lot of hard work but God is there.

I agree with you about the perception of God being within. Using the example of a radio turning into a station still doesn't prove that God exists as anything but a psychological experience. If you can't prove that the radio station is 'out there' it's existence is nothing more than a belief. Is the radio station supposed to be 'out there' or is it within as well according to yoga?

You can keep on reading and understanding how the system works but until you reduce the distance that separate you the microcosm from the macrocosm all is futile because the progress only happen with a lot of practice not with a lot of theories.

I linked to that short article about the Self so you could get an idea of what Jung was talking about. I've been practicing Jungian psychology for over 30 years so it's not a case of me just reading about theory.

Going by Jung's writings he had the God experience himself but he couldn't offer any proof that God exists as anything other than a psychological experience. If I get my own God experience it will be similar to anyone else's but that won't prove that it's anything more than something produced by the human brain. After all, every human has a human brain, including mystics.