21-05-2013, 09:32 AM
The planned Trans-Afghanistan gas Pipeline was the underlying motivating factor for the post 911 Afghanistan War imo. There is an excellent essay by the Geopolitical Monitor that outlines this. There exists somewhere on this forum - dated several years ago - a map of coalition military camps that exactly parallels the planned gas pipeline route. Hardly accidental.
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