Posted on 08/01/2023 1:28:59 AM PDT by spirited irish
It is no exaggeration to say that the highly respected psychologist, Dr. Carl Jung, is the father of neo-Gnosticism and the New Age movement, which is why Dr. Jeffrey Satinover remarked,
“One of the most powerful modern forms of Gnosticism is without question Jungian psychology, both within or without the Church“. (Satinover, The Empty Self, p. 27)
Because of his great influence in propagating gnostic philosophy and morals in churches and synagogues,
“…Jung deserves a closer look. The moral relativism that released upon us the sexual revolution is rooted in an outlook of which (Jung) is the most brilliant contemporary expositor.” Jung “blended psychological reductionism with gnostic spirituality to produce a modern variant of mystical, pagan polytheism in which the multiple ‘images of the instincts’ (his ‘archetypes’) are worshipped as gods.” (Satinover, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, p. 238)
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Generally, the articles you post are excellent, and I Thank You for posting all of them, including this one that is not excellent.
The author does not understand Carl Jung or many of the topics she speaks about.
First, Jung, a son of a minister and a long line of ministers in his family sought to understand religion(s) better.
In September 1909, when he and Freud came to America to participate in the Clark Lectures, he stayed as a guest at the University’s President’s house, (Stanley.Hall) with the Father of American psychology, William James. James, a Harvard Professor and also a medical doctor is famous for writing “Varities of Religious Experiences.”
Jung later wrote that this meeting was highly influential upon his career to study many of the religions of the world to find a greater understanding of the human psyche. James was old, and died with a year later while Jung was a young 33.
While I do not agree with Jung on many of his theories, he was by far instrumental in seeking scientifically to understand why Jesus taught us what He did about the human soul or spirit. He sought an objective scientific evaluation of all the world’s religions.
The author’s understanding of Christianity is shallow and rule oriented opinionated legalism filled with attacks based upon fear and not based upon a factual understanding. Her blatent use of logical fallacies of argumentation undermine any merit her message might have.
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Your condemnatory critique of the author is odd in light of your dismissal of Jung’s demonization and the mainsprings of his ‘psychology’ revelations from Philemon and other spirit guides.
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The author has no clue as to what she is writing about.
It is expected that defenders of Jung and his occult psychology will condemn and ridicule the author. Sad but entirely expected.
I’m not defending Jung, so shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. There’s a difference between what is fact and a total misrepresentation of Jung’s work. The article is trash. Now run along and read some Jung if you aren’t so superstitious to think you the devil will take your soul.
I agree. Jung was a deeply religious man who simply had a brilliangt percepion of the human condition and the energy of the world.
THe great poet and pandit, Rabindrinath Tagore, walked in pilgrimage all the way from India to Germany to meet Jung. Tagore regarded Jung as a holy man. People should ask themselves why that is, instead of trying to protect their false virtue with garlic, holy water, and silver bullets.I think Jung is just over their heads.
One other thing so their is a lttle context. When Jung died at his home in Germany, a lightning bolt struck the apple tree in his garden, splitting it in two. Jung was a deeply reigious man.
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So what?
He was involved with the demonic and trying to hold up God's word to be validated by demonic and human reasoning is ridiculous.
It's kind of staggering that people who call themselves Christian use men as their objective truth to interpret and analyze the word of God by as if science and human reasoning is infallible and Truth and God's word isn't.
It really doesn't matter if Jung got *some things right*>
The fact that he was dead wrong on many others is enough to not trust the things some people feel he got correct.
Linda Kimball is my favorite contemporary author currently. Haven’t yet done the deep dive into the posted article but expect it to be insightful.
Two of Jung’s ‘most influential archetypes’ are the anima & animus, described by Jung as “psychological bisexuality”.[81] Jung teaches in PT that every man has a female soul (anima) and every woman has a male soul (animus).[82] Noll comments that “Jung’s first encounter with the feminine entity he later called the anima seems to have begun with his use of mediumistic techniques…”[83] Based on the recently discovered personal diary of Sabina Spielrein, John Kerr claims that Jung’s so-called anima “the woman within” which he spoke to, was none other than his idealized image of his former mistress, patient, and fellow therapist, Sabina Spielrein.[84] After breaking with both Spielrein and Freud, Jung felt his own soul vanish as if it had flown away to the land of the dead. Shortly after, while his children were plagued by nightmares and the house was seemingly haunted, Jung heard a chorus of spirits cry out demanding: ‘We have come back from Jerusalem where we have not found what we sought.’[85]
In response to these spirits, Jung wrote his Seven Sermons to the Dead. In these seven messages Jung ‘reveals’, in agreement with the 2nd century Gnostic writer Basilides, the True and Ultimate God as Abraxas, who combines Jesus and Satan, good and evil all in one.[86] This is why Jung held that “Light is followed by shadow, the other side of the Creator.”[87] Dr. Noll, a clinical psychologist and post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, holds that “Jung was waging war against Christianity and its distant, absolute, unreachable God and was training his disciples to listen to the voice of the dead and to become gods themselves.”[88]
When Christians defend and praise Jung they defend and praise his spirit guides as well.
What she is saying about Philemon is incorrect, and the drawing that Jung did of Philemon does not resemble her description in any way.
Not only did he not have horns like a bull, he had wings like an angel.
The picture Jung did of him is included in the Redbook, by Sonu. I’m very familiar with it as I helped publish it.
I actually examined the original Redbook drawings by Jung and met with Jung’s family and Sonu, the Redbook editor and translator several times.
I would have no problem with her criticizing Jung if her statements were accurate.
Jung had his faults.
He was a womanizer and had many extra marital affairs. He even considered Toni Wolfe his second wife while still married to Emma.
He was openly polygamous.
I’ve studied this man in depth. Even have two sets of his collected works and have lectured on him many times at conferences and Jungian groups.
Like I said previously, there are many points where I disagree with Jung. But he was the original groundbreaker.
The same could be said of your opinions and statements, but yet I do not arbitrarily discount everything you say. I listen and sort them out.
Arbitrarily demonizing someone is a sign of emotional thought processing which is very dangerous. I tend to listen to such statements with extra discernment.
If Jung was communicating with spirits such as “Philemon” he’s definitely corrupt and not to be trusted.
Carl Jung died at his home in 1961, in Kusnacht, Switzerland.
He had a second home that he built himself at Bolligen as he enjoyed stone masonary work in his leisure. He spent several months each year at the second home. This home, still owned by his family, is like a castle with towers.
Jung was very critical of the Hindu religion, especially warning of the dangers of Kundalini in his 1929 lectures. He really didn’t understand it and it scared him.
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