27-03-2009, 03:39 PM
Welcome Alastair, our forum would benefit, I'm sure, from a greater array of informed insights into these matters.
Can you expound further on what you mean by "resistance to future conclusions and decisions"? I suppose the logical assumption is that future decisions have yet to be taken and, therefore, committing to take action here and now is presumptuous. However, I think you will have gathered that many of us here also view the trend of the future with some trepidation anyway. Can the train bearing down on us be stopped in time?
David
Can you expound further on what you mean by "resistance to future conclusions and decisions"? I suppose the logical assumption is that future decisions have yet to be taken and, therefore, committing to take action here and now is presumptuous. However, I think you will have gathered that many of us here also view the trend of the future with some trepidation anyway. Can the train bearing down on us be stopped in time?
David
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