05-05-2009, 02:18 PM
The people around Bacon were aware of what he was doing but as they were all close friends, and indeed, mostly (if not all?) fellow Rosicrucians, secrecy was not an issue.
As Polymaths go, such output is not exceptional. Leonardo Da Vinci being just one example out of many.
One young boy in the UK, now aged around 13, speaks 8 languages fluently and is presently learning Anglo-Saxon from a Don at Oxford. He is extraordinarily well read in the classics and his IQ is at least 180, the highest measurable IQ.
As Polymaths go, such output is not exceptional. Leonardo Da Vinci being just one example out of many.
One young boy in the UK, now aged around 13, speaks 8 languages fluently and is presently learning Anglo-Saxon from a Don at Oxford. He is extraordinarily well read in the classics and his IQ is at least 180, the highest measurable IQ.
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