To hear in a cryptic message whatever our innermost self is inclined to hear, right or wrong is timelessly human, or so it would seem. The “Croesus syndrome, ” is how the Asheville Jung Center refers to it. Croesus was a super wealthy and powerful ancient Greek ruler who consulted an oracle (prophet, of a sort) before confidently engaging in combat with the upstart Cyrus II, five hundred years or so before Jesus. To Croesus’ dismay, he learned that the empire the oracle predicted would fall was actually his own. Beware your interpretations of an inner hunch seems wise not only for ancient kings and modern psychotherapists. Patience in judgment…
