26-03-2014, 09:05 AM
Fred Steeves Wrote:What a different world begins to unfold when doing the digging for one's self! Combine the flexing of that new intellectual muscle with the daily struggle to know thyself, and it begins to become crystal clear why the average human is never supposed to catch more that a whiff of true knowledge, because knowledge is indeed power.
Welcome Fred, I see you swallowed the Red Pill. :
:I look forward to reading some of your posts.
What was your interest in Crowley et al (an interest of mine too)?
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