Further, Jung believed not that good should overcome evil; good should be integrated with evil in order to achieve wholeness.  "The homosexual who has the courage to 'come out', for example, is welcoming and integrating the darker and 'opposite-sex side of the personality. There can be no moral condemnation when wholeness is achieved." [7] 

The Apostle Paul has something to say about uniting good and evil, (my comments in brackets) "Do not be joined to unbelievers. What do right (good) and wrong (evil) have in common?  Can light (good) and darkness (evil) be friends? How can Christ (our standard of goodness) and Satan (pure evil) agree? What does a believer (good) have in common with an unbeliever (evil)?" (1 Cor. 6:14, 15)  The answer to Paul's last question is, in a word, nothing!  The Prophet Habakkuk says of God, "Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong" (Habakkuk 1:13).

Unfortunately, Jungianism has influenced not only our popular culture, but Christian teaching as well, in spite of the fact that God expressly forbids practicing sorcery in any way shape or form. (Leviticus 19:26-31; II Chronicles 33:6; Isaiah 47:8-11)  J. Budziszewski, professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas, says this about Jungianism: "[It] is based on damnable lies about the nature of good, evil, God, and the human soul.  Yet these lies are being taught in ostensibly Christian seminaries and promoted by ostensibly Christian psychotherapists.  I shuddered when I spoke to a Christian lady who said that her minister had been teaching her to 'gain strength from her dark side.'"  [8] 

Amazingly, Jung believed that "It is possible for a man to attain totality, to become whole, only with the co-operation of the spirit of darkness..."  Jung said that opposites always balance one another and "onesideness, though it lends momentum, is a sign of barbarism." [9]  Who knew?

"How can these dangerous teachings be confronted?" asks Budziszewski.   His answer is to inform Christians who have never heard of Carl Jung about his New Age teaching.  Many years ago when I first heard about Jungianism it was described to me as a kind of psychoanalysis that's open to "spirituality." (Not knowing what was really behind "spirituality" I started reading "Christian psychology books.")

The catchword "spirituality" has a whole host of meanings.  For Carl Jung spirituality "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." [10]

The difficulty, says Budziszewski, is that there's a little truth mixed in with Jung's lies.  "Through a little twist, he turns the truth that for the time being God tolerates certain evils into the lie that God is beyond good and evil.  Through another twist, he turns the truth that we must reckon with what we repress into the lie that we must achieve a reconciliation with what is evil.  To dispel this kind of confusion, we need to identify each truth, but show how he distorts it."


For "the wolves of the flock," who fully understand what Jung's ideas mean, and teach them anyway, Budziszewski gives this advice:  "Like the Gnostics against whom St. Paul and the early church waged spiritual battle, these people don't need instruction, but rebuke.  Christ gave disciplinary authority to the church for a reason (emphasis added). He meant it to be used."

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