28-10-2013, 03:01 PM
The guy I was in contact with appeared to have got his information directly from one of the players - and I had been put in contact with him via another player who operated in South Africa. I would have written both their stories, as they were fascinating, but in the end certain aspects of them either didn't stand up to complete scrutiny or either couldn't be established via secondary sources, and I didn't want to write about either on their own say so --- even though both provided a large amount of documentation supporting what they said.
You know what it's like in the black world -- nothing is entirely what it seems to be. Dangerous waters and all that.
You know what it's like in the black world -- nothing is entirely what it seems to be. Dangerous waters and all that.
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