17-09-2009, 03:04 PM
Peter, I can barely find a word I disagree with in your foregoing post.
I think I would only add that keeping a record of events and appending to them alternative explanations/back stories than those given to us by officialdom is a well worth service - but I'm sure you agree with this anyway.
The other thing is that having opened Pandora's Box as we as a species have undoubtedly done, we have indeed released a great destructive whirlwind. But the last thing to be released by Pandora was hope.
I suppose we must al be fortified by that and do what we can to keep the flame of truth and honesty alive as best we can.
I think I would only add that keeping a record of events and appending to them alternative explanations/back stories than those given to us by officialdom is a well worth service - but I'm sure you agree with this anyway.
The other thing is that having opened Pandora's Box as we as a species have undoubtedly done, we have indeed released a great destructive whirlwind. But the last thing to be released by Pandora was hope.
I suppose we must al be fortified by that and do what we can to keep the flame of truth and honesty alive as best we can.
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