02-03-2010, 10:30 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Even if we are merely passive agents, some understanding of the currents that push our small self-powered sea-craft in the wide ocean may be useful in order to remain sane, grounded, aware, and centered -- or, to keep one's sea legs, as it were.
Bravo Ed. Sage advise.
I humbly submit that this is all we can do.
The forces working through these difficult times are just far too vast to do anything other than to try to keep our sea legs.
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