‘Transcendence’ is often thought of as ‘getting out of here.’ At the same time, transcend can also mean ‘getting in here’ through creativity (i.e., transcend any situation with vitality: over, under, around, through, and beyond).

“Since life cannot tolerate a standstill, a damming up of vital energy results, and this would lead to an insupportable condition did not the tension of the opposites produce a new, uniting function that transcends them” (Jung, 1926).

Spirituality creates creativity with transformational processes; we aspire to transcend matter with life, life with mind, and finally, mind with Spirit.

“I would venture to regard the sum total of our findings under the aspect of four stages, namely confession, elucidation, education and transformation." (Jung, Collected Works of C, G. Jung, Vol. 16. 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1966, (pp. 53 -75), par. 122)

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