15-09-2009, 11:26 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:When I read things like this I have to check myself that I am really reading what I think I see. While I am at it I have to remind myself that it is indeed 2009 and that I haven't slipped into a Tardis and come out during the Salem Witch Trials or something. I can only wonder at the future of the USA when things like this occur. What willful ignorance and stupidity abounds there.
And not uncommonly that ignorance and stupidity takes hold at the top.
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