The Greatest Psychologist of all Time

Christ: Greatest Psychologist of All Time

Psychology, as we know it today, is just over a hundred years old. Before psychologists were around men and women turned to a priest who gave them a sermon. (Carl Jung in Modern Man in Search of a Soul.)

I have always felt that Jesus Christ was the first psychologist and wounded healer. Why? He was wounded in order to heal us. He taught us how to forgive each other and ourselves. He promised us healing. (The Samaritan woman at the well.) He taught us how to love in a healthy way. (Love one another as you love ourselves. Love God and all else shall be given to thee.} He gave our lives structure and guidance. (Go and sin no more.) And this is just the beginning, but you get my point.

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How Christ symbolizes the reconciliation of opposites through a parable of profound symbolic meaning that often goes overlooked by many...

Yes, you read that right: Jesus Christ was the greatest psychologist who ever lived...

He/God taught man how to reach psychological harmony through one single parable...

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and gentle as doves” (Matt. 10:16).

The righteous trait of the dove (gentleness) and the righteous trait of the snake (wisdom) cancels out each other's negative opposite traits of cunningness found within the snake and naivety found within the dove...

1. To truly be wise you cannot be naïve.

2. To truly be gentle you cannot be cunning.

3. You can only be wise if you are gentle, and you can only be gentle if you are wise.

This is Christ harmonizing duality through the embodied virtues found within the snake and dove for the sake of realizing the psychological human ideal for man to strive towards through his actions in this world with others. To live in balance within ourselves and pave the path towards psychological integration with the opposites.