After observing the inclusion of the academic discipline, Psychology, and praise for Carl Jung, this factual report on Freud and Jung should be of value:
Sigmund Freud is often referred to as the "father" of Psychology. He began as a "hypnotherapist," thereby obtaining his "scientific" research, which was portrayed as a modern scientific breakthrough, in understanding the human mind, by incorporating an ancient Shamanistic occult technique into his methodology.
In a very candid letter to his close friend, Wilhelm Fliess he wrote, "I am really not a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am nothing but by temperament a conquistador (conqueror)... with the curiosity the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of being."
(Why Freud Fainted, p.20, by Samuel Rosenberg, © 1978, 256 pg.)
In "The Assault on Truth," by Jeffrey Masson, © 1984, 368 pg., the former Projects Director of the Freud Archives, asserts that Freud's earliest and most valid scientific research was abandoned, because he chose not to accept the reality of his child patients' experiences of parental sexual abuse. He feared an adverse reaction by the victim's parents, who represented the elite and empowered of society, which would necessitate a loss of income, and the disapproval of his colleagues.
According to this well documented book, based on long-secret letters and documents, Freud hid his true findings, and hypothesized a complete reversal of his actual research. He theorized his patient's childhood memories of seduction and rape into fantasies on the children's part, of incestuous sexual desire toward their parents, and built his entire foundation of "Psychoanalysis" on this deliberate lie.
Sigmund Freud was an Atheist whose stated goal was to provide mankind with an alternative to religious faith. His proposed solution was to turn our attention from the worship of Almighty God, to self absorption with the biological function of sex, as the basis of human behavior.
To an amazing degree, he has succeeded, as his theories are accepted as if they were fact, and the terms he coined, such as "id, ego, and super-ego" are universally applied to human motivation and behavior.
Carl Gustav Jung, and Sigmund Freud are two of the best known and most influential figures of the past century. Jung's theories of myths and archetypes, and his belief in a collective unconscious, are now part of modern culture.
In The Aryan Christ, by Richard Noll, © 1997, 337pg., Noll describes how Jung was born in 1875, into a family with a history of the practice of spiritism/occultism, and a record of mental disorders, and how many details of his life and teachings, which were deliberately suppressed by his family and disciples, after his death, have just been excavated from archives in Europe and America, and are being published for the first time.
His idealization of "primitive man" was based on the romantic and nationalistic Volkish movement, including the racism of nineteenth-century German culture in his day, which idealized the pre-Christian Aryan past. Jung deliberately and repeatedly entered into self-induced trance states, something he had learned practicing spiritism. This practice, he would later call "active imagination," pretending it to be, in some way "scientific", rather than from the occult.
After an experience of "initiation," while in this state of altered consciousness, he developed and practiced a neopagan form of the ancient "Mystery Religions", essentially Biblical "Ba'al worship," religion based on "sun worship," incorporating within it, fertility and goddess worship, after his pivotal visionary experience in which he saw himself reborn as a lion-headed god from an ancient cult, and at times, he recorded the worship of a rooster headed god named Abraxas. Jung advocated Polygamy as a spiritual path, and had adulterous affairs with his female disciples.
This induced occult sexual "initiation" was a valid part of the "treatment", or "therapy" of his closest followers and/or patients. Among these was Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, who through her generous father, funneled millions of dollars to him for his "research", and to make his name known in Psychology.
Jung derived his Psychotherapeutic practices from the ancient mystery cults of the Hellenistic world. He transformed and incorporated the "imaginal" spirit entities he encountered in his trance states, or visions, into elements of his Analytical Psychoanalysis.
Thus, what the modern world was introduced to in his papers, and speeches, as a modern breakthrough in the understanding, and treatment of the human mind, as in the case of Freud, was based on personal experiences of ancient, occult practices and Mythology. Jung's most famous teachings and ideas were introduced to him by his spirit guide, Philemon, who, according to Jung, instructed him in "the Law", from the timeless space known as the Egyptian Land of the Dead.
Philemon was so real to Jung, he painted a picture of him on his bedroom wall as he had appeared to him, an old emaciated man with white beard and mustache, wide wings made of the feathers of a kingfisher, and the horns of a bull, flying across the sky, carrying a ring of keys.
Can it be that the Creator of the Universe, and of mankind "didn't know" about some aspect of our being? On the contrary, he warned us of deceitful spirits, producing their "doctrines of demons," who would, if possible, fool even the "elect." (1st Timothy 4:1)
With the advent of Freudian and Jungian Psychology, and their acceptance as "truth," by Medicine and Academia, and the Behavioral Disciplines that followed, autonomous spirit entities were given a legitimate voice from within us. Suddenly, we found ourselves being spoken to by our "unconscious or subconscious" mind, a concept the Bible, and it's author, Jesus Christ, who wrote the entire Bible, through human prophets and apostles, inspired by the Holy Spirit, does not recognize.
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