11-11-2008, 03:01 PM
I would add my brief cynicism here in that I wonder if Palestine, and then Israel, was midwifed into being for the purposes of creating a perpetual rift in the Middle East so that the west could control the oilfields in the ensuing chaos, under the old divide and rule rubric.
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