07-03-2015, 08:38 AM
I don't buy into the writer's theory that the "Grand Design" is synonymous with the alchemist's "Great Work," but it's a thought provoking piece otherwise.
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