30-04-2016, 07:21 AM
I come across so many people who actively repeat the lies and outright refuse to acknowledge the truth even when you prove it to them. For me we're currently living in a period of collective schizophrenia.
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