My husband and I are listening to Carl Jung’s autobiography, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”. In it he rehearses a couple of episodes with his friend Sigmund Freud, who, in his quest to prove religions were fake and there is no God, turned his own psycho analysts beliefs into dogmas and practices, thus inadvertently creating a religion. Then we are reminded that Freud admits that all people have their own neurosis. When Jung cannot accept Freuds dogmas, and when he asks difficult questions, Freud literally faints. He simply cannot let go of his own neurosis and instead of succumbing to a psychotic break, he temporarily loses consciousness. Hahaha! This belief in a prophet, one that cannot fit the scriptural definition, is a neurosis, but fortunately they have large groups to support each other in their false belief. I truly would hate to see those who aren’t capable of facing those neurosis be pushed too hard that they lose it, it meaning their own individual psychosis. (I’m tempted in the extreme to say though, that maybe that’s the point of the whole exercise).
Anyway, it’s a good book. And though Jung never claims to be a prophet, I think he is much more likely to be one than any of the leaders of the lds church.
Breathings 