"One reason people are suffering today to an almost intolerable degree is that their unmediated suffering has no conscious connection with its archetypal ground. Cut off from that ground they feel they are alone, and their suffering becomes meaningless. They do not realize that what they are suffering exists within creation itself, and that the gods and goddesses of religion and mythology have been there before. The agony of their suffering is caused by hubris, which Jung describes as ‘the overweening pride…of individual consciousness, which must necessarily collide with [the eternal truths] and lead to the catastrophic destruction of the individual.’ The suffering itself can easily become gilt-edged, self-dramatized, when we lack the god or goddess at the center. To sympathize with that suffering in ourselves or in others is to condone the arrogance, and to condone the arrogance is to paralyze the sufferer. The neurotic cut off from his archetypal roots is actually enamored of his pain and gilt-edged guilt."-
Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection
Where Woodman talks about archetypal connections, you can also read “a sense of connection to the divine”, with equally valid results.