14-12-2009, 01:57 PM
John Bevilaqua Wrote:Or you have to use my technique of telephone based ruses and scams in order to get them to tell you things they would never otherwise reveal to you or to anyone else.
I have to say that I have used similar ruses in investigating various subjects for exactly the same reason. Unless someone has very good reason to reveal closed information - to save their skins or as a deathbed statement etc.
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