Carl Jung: Psychologist or sorcerer? By Marsha West

"Many Christian psychology professionals are only average pew warmers, who then practice secular
psychology." ~ Pastor Steven J. Cole

Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung changed the way we think about the human psyche.  For those who have never heard of him, he was the foremost pioneer of dream analysis, which is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient traditions dreams were considered to be messages from the gods.

Jung's research asserts the concept of an impersonal or "collective unconscious" (a type of library containing everything ever known) present in each person's unconscious.  The inspiration came to Jung from contacting the spirit realm.  Jung claimed that his spirit guide, Philemon (more on "it" later), was a source of information that gave him crucial insights.  According to Don Matzat, "Jung theorized that all humanity, past and present, were connected on an unconscious plane. Therefore, deep within each individual was the collective wisdom of the ages, including all religious, mythical content. … Jung placed a "scientific" footing under occult phenomena and mystical experience. Jung was deeply involved in the occult and did his doctoral thesis on parapsychology. He also was interested in Catholic mysticism and conducted seminars on the teachings of Ignatius Loyola." [1] 

The lie detector test and the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are also based on Jung's theories.  MBTI is a personality and psychological test to see what makes people tick. Are you an extrovert or an introvert?  Do you mentally live in the now or in the future?  Do you plan in advance, or do you move into action without a plan?  Take a personality quiz and find out!  Several years ago a church I attended gave newcomers the MBTI to identify their spiritual gifts.  Knowing an individual's desires and gifts helped the leadership figure out where they could best serve the church body.  It's pretty much a given to say that in most congregations today, 20 percent of the people do 80 percent of the work.  Which means desires and gifts have to be put on the back burner when there's a shortage of Sunday school teachers.  So why take the test in the first place?  But I digress.

Carl Jung was a "spiritual thinker" who offered Western culture a way back to religion that places no shame on being human.  Spiritual teacher, codependency therapist and author, Robert Burney, agrees with Jung: "We are not sinful, shameful human creatures who have to somehow earn Spirituality.  We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience." [2]

If Burney's assertion is correct, and the human race isn't sinful, then the Bible is nothing more than myths and fables -- and Jesus was a nut job for declaring He was the Son of God who came into the world to die for the sins of all mankind.   Jesus clearly taught that we are sinners, with a capital S, and "fall short of the glory of God."  Sin was the reason Jesus went to the cross.  His death was payment for mankind's sin debt.  Thus He threw open the gates of heaven, and all who believe in Him will be reconciled to God.  If it's true that we are merely "Spiritual Beings having a human experience" as Burney claims, the Son of God would have had no reason to leave His throne in heaven and come to Earth.  Which is Burney's whole point!  If we're not sinners, we have no need of a Savior!
 
But what if Burney and all the other Jungian psychologists have it wrong?  If they do, those that never admit their sin and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior are in a real pickle.  Basically they have a one-way ticket on the H Train.  Once you're on that train, there's no getting off, no turning back. 

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