29-02-2016, 05:44 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Not well known [Jung thought it would ruin his reputation among many], Jung took hallucinogens. It is documented in Dennis McKenna's new book 'The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss'...by the way a good book.
I've not read this book, but imagine this was Peyote during his period of time with the Navajo people in New Mexico?
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