12-06-2014, 11:40 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I know Jan never accepted the Monarch story. He has interviewed some of the people who claimed to have been in it. There are some threads here about it. Yes. Lack of verifiable evidence.
Aye, and Jan wasn't alone in that re Monarch. There is no reliable evidence for it. No one who objectively researched it came away with a sense of reality about it.
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