23-04-2009, 11:09 AM
I read it years ago Pete. Can't remember all the detail except the author was former CIA and fingered Clinton as a Bush/CIA troll. I found it interesting at the time.
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