13-02-2009, 10:19 AM
Yes I agree Pete. Reading the story it felt as though keeping information from the public was one of the key strategies. I kept waiting for the big revelation, but none came.
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