09-02-2010, 10:06 AM
We do live in the darkest times Peter, I agree.
I am more hopeful if only because when Pandora's box was opened, and after all the plagues and sorrows had escaped, what was left whispering in the box was hope, the best and last of all things.
I am more hopeful if only because when Pandora's box was opened, and after all the plagues and sorrows had escaped, what was left whispering in the box was hope, the best and last of all things.
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