10-02-2010, 07:12 PM
I think also that Webb's editor at the time the Dark Alliance series was published behaved disgracefully and should go down in history for the complete coward he was for buckling to the pressure he did to later criticize Webb for the articles and then treat him so badly thereafter.
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