05-11-2014, 12:21 PM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote: What fascinates me is, why some people can have the scales fall from their eyes, and others never will. What is the difference?
That's a heck of a good question Malcolm. If you ever find an answer, please copy me in on it. It is a mystery isn't it. My best guess is that some people have reached a point where understanding and honesty can be psychologically accommodated. Most are content to be blind and unseeing because of, I suspect, a high level of fear of what a change in their mind-set might actually entail.
Once the scales have been knocked off their eyes, as many of us know, it is voluntarily impossible to return to that prior unconscious state again. It is not a switch that can be turned off once it has been turned on.
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