03-02-2010, 10:36 AM
It's an excellent book Peter and I'm certain you will find it very fertile. Gerald had many excellent contacts - and thus insights - into the dark crannies and nooks of the world which didn't stop at the Astra affair.
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