The following post is only a week or so old but I'm bringing it back to the top because of President Trump's tweet immediately following the Mueller hearing...."TRUTH IS A FORCE OF NATURE!" In a cursory search of Jung quotes....this came up...."It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me- I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you"....and he used other analogies with the term 'force of nature."Under the circumstances it might behoove Christians to ponder Carl Jung's influence on Donald Trump. Carl Jung Wikiquotes might be a good place to start. As for the Mueller hearings two days ago....our wisdom is gone as is our discernment. We on our side have reverted to the methods of the dark side as we 'Borked' Robert Mueller....a man who was an Oliver North or a Jim Webb in Vietnam while Donald Trump once said that dating in the 1990s was his 'personal Vietnam' in attempting to avoid STDs. Why Vets support this man so much is a mystery to me.
Thinking back on the psychology curriculum in college.....for me this was back in the early 1970s....it seemed to say to us to look over the smorgasbord of theories of all these men and maybe you will see one that you want to attach yourself to....Skinner....Maslow....Adler....Fromm....and Wilhelm Reich....(there was some wild stuff)....of course Freud. I kind of liked Erich Fromm....The Art Of Loving.....then again I didn't have the brains of a Popsicle back then.....relatively speaking.
There was one though that intrigued me a little more than the others.....Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung. There was some dark stuff here....and of course I thought that dark stuff meant interesting stuff. Fortunately psychology wasn't my major so I didn't have to study any further about any of these folks.
So how does Donald Trump enter into this.....he seems to dominate most of my posts that are not of a Christian nature....and even many that are of a Christian nature? Everyone who reads knows that Donald Trump is not a reader. He did list his favorite books during the campaign and it seemed obvious that someone helped him out with it. He mentioned Machiavelli....and I can believe that. He probably read it as the gang from The Big Bang Theory read their superhero comic books....and I would be real surprised if he didn't back then almost memorize his mentor Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking....but apparently he had another mentor of sorts.....as a few of the books written about Trump reference him....Carl Jung. Donald Trump was where I was.....only he became somewhat fascinated by Jung.....who called the Christian religion...."systematic blindness'....as he was heavily into the occult and Gnosticism. Here is but one quote of Jung's....."The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
Folks....I'm not saying that Donald Trump is a disciple of Carl Jung....rather that these three men....Machiavelli, Peale and Jung....probably in that order....helped form who Donald Trump became. It may not be something to dwell upon but it's also not something to be ignored....especially by Christians. (in light of the tweet mentioned above....I would have to raise the level of concern)
If you are interested in learning more about the influence that Carl Jung had on the America of my....and Donald Trump's generation.....you can easily Google some lectures by the British theologian and cultural commentator Peter Jones....oddly a childhood friend of the Beatles John Lennon....whose books I have read over many decades. R. C. Sproul once wrote that "All truth is God's truth." When our son was in high school I read along with him all the classic books that were assigned. So I read The Prince and Siddhartha and other such books. Donald Trump had absolutely no help or guidance in this area. We Christians have a wonderful trove of helps that can keep us busy every day. Listen to some sermons by Iain Murray for strength and wisdom on what we are experiencing in the world today.....and of course Martyn Lloyd-Jones is great edification.....as is Sproul's Ligonier Ministries....ligonier.org.
Note: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Jung and an associate showed up in one of Donald Trump's books. My guess is that the ghostwriter asked him.....'what authors do you like'.....and then ran with it.....at least I hope that's what happened. (Update: Maybe not)
Thinking back on the psychology curriculum in college.....for me this was back in the early 1970s....it seemed to say to us to look over the smorgasbord of theories of all these men and maybe you will see one that you want to attach yourself to....Skinner....Maslow....Adler....Fromm....and Wilhelm Reich....(there was some wild stuff)....of course Freud. I kind of liked Erich Fromm....The Art Of Loving.....then again I didn't have the brains of a Popsicle back then.....relatively speaking.
There was one though that intrigued me a little more than the others.....Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung. There was some dark stuff here....and of course I thought that dark stuff meant interesting stuff. Fortunately psychology wasn't my major so I didn't have to study any further about any of these folks.
So how does Donald Trump enter into this.....he seems to dominate most of my posts that are not of a Christian nature....and even many that are of a Christian nature? Everyone who reads knows that Donald Trump is not a reader. He did list his favorite books during the campaign and it seemed obvious that someone helped him out with it. He mentioned Machiavelli....and I can believe that. He probably read it as the gang from The Big Bang Theory read their superhero comic books....and I would be real surprised if he didn't back then almost memorize his mentor Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking....but apparently he had another mentor of sorts.....as a few of the books written about Trump reference him....Carl Jung. Donald Trump was where I was.....only he became somewhat fascinated by Jung.....who called the Christian religion...."systematic blindness'....as he was heavily into the occult and Gnosticism. Here is but one quote of Jung's....."The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
Folks....I'm not saying that Donald Trump is a disciple of Carl Jung....rather that these three men....Machiavelli, Peale and Jung....probably in that order....helped form who Donald Trump became. It may not be something to dwell upon but it's also not something to be ignored....especially by Christians. (in light of the tweet mentioned above....I would have to raise the level of concern)
If you are interested in learning more about the influence that Carl Jung had on the America of my....and Donald Trump's generation.....you can easily Google some lectures by the British theologian and cultural commentator Peter Jones....oddly a childhood friend of the Beatles John Lennon....whose books I have read over many decades. R. C. Sproul once wrote that "All truth is God's truth." When our son was in high school I read along with him all the classic books that were assigned. So I read The Prince and Siddhartha and other such books. Donald Trump had absolutely no help or guidance in this area. We Christians have a wonderful trove of helps that can keep us busy every day. Listen to some sermons by Iain Murray for strength and wisdom on what we are experiencing in the world today.....and of course Martyn Lloyd-Jones is great edification.....as is Sproul's Ligonier Ministries....ligonier.org.
Note: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Jung and an associate showed up in one of Donald Trump's books. My guess is that the ghostwriter asked him.....'what authors do you like'.....and then ran with it.....at least I hope that's what happened. (Update: Maybe not)
