26-10-2009, 04:38 PM
I know it was and is reported to be a Ponzi scheme but it seemed to me - when I read up on it at the time - to be something more cloaked going on, for instance banks and institutions money laundering.
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