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I think one has to bear in mind that the long list of subjects and techniques which are disapproved of by fundamentalist Protestants includes psychology – and most definitely Jungian psychology.* The fact is** that by excluding an understanding, or even a description, of vast areas of human experience, these sects of Christianity reduce their ability to understand and help people who are undergoing them.

There are plenty of stories of people who have come to the Protestant sects after they have passed through these experiences: my fundamentalist helper is one, as I understand his story, and Matrisciana*** is up to a point another. There are plenty of adherents by upbringing or conversion who have never gone through them at all. But no one has yet seemed able to explain in advance to the public in general what sort of experiences they are likely to go through, and why,**** and help them to understand and, where appropriate, withstand. That is what I am trying to do.

*Also evolution – any evolution.

**(as I see it!)

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****(or at least, how)

[Presumably the public at large, not specifically Christian (or of any other faith); otherwise Bunyan and a number of Christian mystics would seem to have tried something of the sort, at least for Christians.... <20180123>]

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