10-11-2015, 11:02 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:[quote=Magda Hassan]
Isn't it just pathetic that someone like Hand and LPC can live lives of calm grace, while real heroes like Manning, Assange and Snowden are trapped - as are many others who've even gone to prison for doing the RIGHT thing, let alone these criminals who don't get any punishment for doing the WRONG/EVIL things. It is an upside-down world, all too much run by those on the dark side.
Yep, the world certainly is upside down. These days lying is respected and flourishes, and the truth is openly mocked and degraded.
Quote:It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses- and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster's body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost.On the Psychology of the Unconscious" (1912). In CW 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. P.35, Jung.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14