05-10-2013, 05:17 PM
To be perfectly honest, I would be astonished had the US not been covertly supplying weapons to Syrian rebels, given all that we know about prior US covert weapons support/operations. I sort of took it for read. But it is good to have facts backing a hypothesis.
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