28-10-2014, 08:23 AM
It strikes that Time changed the original publication date from 1995 to June 2001 for reasons more to do with concealing how long this technology had been available for. Publishing it with a date just a couple of months prior to 9/11 makes it more digestible imo. We keep seeing this sort of thing happening - a slight factual shift here, an emphasis there etc - all to muddy the waters, I think.
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