07-10-2009, 04:02 PM
The L Ron Hubbard connection is certainly worrying. Anyone can be a member of follower, but the more intelligent and connected tend to understand what it is that they are a part of.
And if they don't then their judgement and objectivity is badly flawed.
And if they don't then their judgement and objectivity is badly flawed.
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