15-06-2009, 12:25 PM
Quote:We'd all better start pointing to the sources and demonstrating the techniques for taking control of our minds more fervently before someone lights the final fuse.
I couldn’t agree more with you Ed. Taking control of our own psyche I would argue, because the intellectual mind is easily and rapidly “flooded” by powerful surges in the collective unconscious resulting in the diminishment of rational thinking in a blink of an eye. A clear example of this can be seen in the abandonment of civilized behaviour in the German psyche circa 1933/45.
For my sins I have a number of posts here which focus on the Jungian Shadow complex HERE. This thread, to my utter astonishment, is the second most accessed thread on this forum -- all non-member visitors too. Interesting.
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