17-02-2014, 11:39 AM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:When MR got his website up and running, he felt he had to put up one shocking expose after another. He set himself up for trouble. Plus he claims to have been poisoned, his office ransacked, and an also an employee betrayed him. Then he went on the lamb to Venezuela. He of course returned but keeps a very low profile.
Yep, I think Mike courted fame. I lost touch with him shortly after the Vreeland affair. The last thing I heard was that he had some big money people funding him for mainstream media adverts, and that these people turned out to be crooks of some kind...
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