I will continue developing the thesis that the Book of Mormon is not literal, but symbolic, archetypal history brought forth by the visionary Joseph Smith, in shamanic fashion, as a grand symbolic, spiritual ethic to rebalance the culture into which it came. Calling on the work of Carl Jung and John Weir Perry, I will demonstrate how the Book of Mormon matches almost perfectly a ten-stage archetypal sequence uncovered through careful study of persons undergoing psychic stress but working their way toward resolution. Can this progression so integral to individual healing helpfully illuminate why the Book of Mormon has so successfully spoken to mil-lions of people all over the world?

C. Jess Groesbeck, Bruce Jorgensen