This shows Jesus knew that humans are not meant to take guidance
from other humans because of the simple truth that each one’s very essence is
endowed with ability to receive and transmit guidance from God if we make an
effort to really listen to it: “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” (Romans
8:16)
Interestingly, through different wordings, Carl Jung
indirectly points to the ability of our inner self. He arrived at this
conclusion from analyzing his own dreams which he says is the means our sub-conscious
mind uses to communicate with us by delivering messages direct
to the conscious. Although many different characters can appear in our dreams,
he believed that “every character is a different aspect of our unacknowledged self
or a prevalent situation in our life. Basically, we cannot easily
retrieve the data stored in our unconscious mind, so dreams offer the opportunity
to view the data so that we can achieve inner peace, balance and harmony and
achieve self-growth and self-realization, which propel us towards our unique
higher purpose”—a process he meant by the term individuation.
“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious
psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the
unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to
give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our
consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an
impasse.”
[Collected Works Volume
10, paragraph 317]
