07-04-2017, 02:35 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote:The following post is from Tooth who texted me this morning while I was navigating the wilds of Cambridgeshire with the faint hope that I might be confronted by the wild, bare-chested Iceni women who live there - but no such luck. I was on a bus while Tooth was on a train
I had the enormous misfortune to be seated opposite a very beautiful woman en route to Aintree. I naturally offered her the benefit of my renowned knowledge of all things equine & told her to bung a large one on Go Pontinental, only to discover said nag had expired at the first or second in a mid-1970s Grand National.
There is a moral here, it's just that I have no idea what it is.
Just like my betting tip on Dustin Johnson in The Masters. It's the kiss of death.
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