13-06-2013, 10:31 AM
Keith Millea Wrote:06.12.13 - 9:18 PM]
Dante must have saved his tenth circle of hell for these people.
Dante in the First Circle
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/12-6
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Someone been reading Dan Brown by any chance, Keith?
To be honest I have. The image is compelling, I think. It reminds me of Luke Skywalker walking into the dark forest. Ditto, Tolkein's Mirkwood - likewise many other too. But since the journey into the dark forest and hence down into Hell is the only sure pathway to Paradiso, I can only conclude that these people are a long way off that sort of contemplation...
For me, a more telling image of Dante's journey is the Gate of Hell (Canto III) by Dmitri Semakov:
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Abandon Hope all ye who enter here.
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