25-11-2010, 12:04 PM
Thanks Ed and Peter, I'll bear Becker in mind.
Although I've had cancer, it fortunately proved not to be life-threatening because of the available treatment. I was just physically fucked over for three years from radiation poisoning. But it was far better dragging my sorry arse around, sans energy, than having deeply intimate conversations with worms.
However, I did have a severe "brush" with my Shadow a long time ago and since that process results in a little death, I suppose I can also comment on the mind-opening that a renewal of life brings.
You don't fully appreciate life is until you almost lose it. Thereafter you become a powerful advocate for what you can do with it while it lasts.
Although I've had cancer, it fortunately proved not to be life-threatening because of the available treatment. I was just physically fucked over for three years from radiation poisoning. But it was far better dragging my sorry arse around, sans energy, than having deeply intimate conversations with worms.
However, I did have a severe "brush" with my Shadow a long time ago and since that process results in a little death, I suppose I can also comment on the mind-opening that a renewal of life brings.
You don't fully appreciate life is until you almost lose it. Thereafter you become a powerful advocate for what you can do with it while it lasts.
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