Wer in den Spiegel des Wassers blickt, sieht allerdings zunächst sein eigenes Bild. Wer zu sich selber geht, riskiert die Begegnung mit sich selbst. Der Spiegel schmeichelt nicht, er zeigt getreu, was in ihn hineinschaut, nämlich jenes Gesicht, das wir der Welt nie zeigen, weil wir es durch die Persona, die Maske des Schauspielers, verhüllen. Der Spiegel aber liegt hinter der Maske und zeigt das wahre Gesicht. Dies ist die erste Mutprobe auf dem inneren Wege, eine Probe, die genügt, um die meisten abzuschrecken, denn die Begegnung mit sich selber gehört zu den unangenehmeren Dingen, denen man entgeht, solange man alles Negative auf die Umgebung projizieren kann. Carl Gustav Jung [BW 540] (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Tiefenpsychologe, Bewußtes und Unbewußtes, S. 28, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1985

Wie die meisten Komplexe ist der Schatten das Ergebnis von Kindheitstraumen. Alle Eigenschaften innerhalb der Gesamtpsyche einer Person, die dem sich entwickelnden Ich diametral entgegengesetzt sind und in der Kindheit auf Druck der Umgebung abgelehnt wurden, vereinigen sich im Unbewussten. Dort bilden sie ein unbeschreibliches, mit Willen ausgestattetes Gebilde. Werden sie später nicht integriert, werden diese abgetrennten Eigenschaften stets danach trachten, die Pläne und das Verhalten des Ichs zu sabotieren. Robert Moore, Ph.D. Robertmoore.com (*1942) US-amerikanischer Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Berater, Douglas Gilette, Der Magier im Mann. Wege zum inneren Schamanen, S. 219, Walter-Verlag, Solothurn, Düsseldorf, 1995

Wir sind dem Feind begegnet, und er ist wir. Walt Kelly (1913-1973) US-amerikanischer Trickfilmzeichner, Comiczeichner und -autor, Earth Day Posters mit 'Pogo' und Porkypine, 1971

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Do not defend your downside(s), accept it.
Own your downside completely. If not, you might get attacked.
David R. Hawkins, Source unknown

In Egyptian mythology, the soul goes to Hades [Duat], where the Lord of the Underworld (Osiris) sits in judgment and weighs the sinner's heart on the scales, whose destiny then hangs in the balance. To understand this depiction (which operates quite mightily in the human psyche) we first note that it is referring to the 'underworld'. This is the judge in the unconscious mind that is self-judging and hands out sentences of guilt, suffering, and self-hatred. This myth is an accurate depiction of the dark side of the unconscious. David R. Hawkins, |. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 331

Those who became enlightened often went through agonizing periods of facing the utmost of negative experiencing that was buried in their unconscious, of owning their own shadow, of looking at what they had held as most hateful and owning it, and then letting go of it (the 'dark night of the soul'). The letting go of what was the farthest removed from the truth in those positions at the bottom of the scale, the letting go of those positions that came out of self-honesty, led to the realization of the Truth. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 164-165

The purpose of the lectures is to prepare you for the downside of what will come up if you are spiritually, seriously committed. If you run around reading books here and there, play around in the astral realms and get channellings, etc. [...] you won’t have to deal with this! But if you are serious, the downside will come up. This is that which is opposed to spiritual truth and has dominated mankind until the late 1980s. Those energies which oppose God who would like to control you did dominate until the consciousness of mankind jumped over 200. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Realization of the Self: Final Moments, December 2002

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. St. Francis of Assisi [LoC 580] (1181/82-1226) Italian Catholic friar, preacher, founder of the Franciscan Order

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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 Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Aion, Collected Works 9, part II, pg. 14, 1951

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist

Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is also in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow, he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved problems of our day. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Psychology and Religion. East and West, Collected Works 11, par. 140

As soon as people get together in masses and submerge the individual, the shadow is mobilized, and, as history shows, may even be personified and incarnated. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works 9i, par. 478

The future of mankind very much depends upon the recognition of the shadow. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Letters, vol. 1, pg. 541

[If the unconscious is] […] properly dealt with in one place only, it is influenced as a whole, i.e., simultaneously and everywhere. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Letters, vol. 2, pg. 595

Just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist, Memories, Dreams and Reflections, pg. 326

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to stop from facing their souls. Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalytist, depth psychologist

Everyone of is us shadowed by a false self. This is the [person] I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy. My false and private self is the one who wants to exist outside the reach of God’s will and God’s love – outside of reality and outside of life. And such a self cannot help but be an illusion. Thomas Merton [LoC 515] (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic writer, Trappist monk, poet, social activist, mystic student of comparative religion, New Seeds of Contemplation, pg. 33

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Marianne Williamson marianne.com (*1952) US American spiritual activist, visionary, author, lecturer

We all have the potential to be killers. We found that the people who are the most violent are those who are incapable of embracing their own potential for evil. By projecting their shadow, their evil, onto the other, they justify their violence. They think they're emphasizing their purity, or restoring their purity, by destroying someone else. Robert A. F. Thurman, Ph.D. (1899-1981) US American theologian, philosopher, educator, civil rights leader, author, named as one of the 25 Most Influential People, Time Magazine 1997

We have met the enemy, and he is us. Walt Kelly (1913-1973) US American cartoon writer, best known for the classic comic strip, 'Pogo' writer and illustrator of Earth Day poster, featuring 'Pogo' and Porkypine, 1971

My work with patients over decades as well as my understanding of historical developments have led me to the conviction that all "high" cultures are built on power and violence and are driven by psychological mechanisms that determine human behavior. Underpinning our "high" culture are our efforts to control the world, to possess, to dominate, and simultaneously to create mechanisms that allow us to deny and disguise our real motives. Arno Gruen (*1923) German-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, author, The Need to Punish. The Political Consequences of Identifying with the Aggressor, article, 1997

Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many. Aldous Huxley [LoC 485] (1894-1963) English US American essayist, writer on parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, visionary poet, humanist, pacifist, The Devils of Loudan

Someone who has been tortured remains tortured forever [...] Someone who has undergone torture can never again feel at home in the world. The shame over being so utterly reduced cannot be expunged. One's feeling of trust in the world, a trust that falls apart partially with the first blow and then fully during the torture, can never be restored. Jean Améry (1912-1978) Austrian-born essayist, tortured by the Gestapo, 1966

The collective shadow may be viewed as the disowned parts of individual members of a group, race, or nation projected onto others. The motto for such a group is “Whatever my group does is good; most everything other groups do is bad.” When in the grip of a collective shadow, we can tolerate only an idealized image of ourselves; we scapegoat someone or some group to reflect the parts that have been disowned. Alan Briskin, Ph.D., US American co-founder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative, consultant, artist, researcher, The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, pg. 53, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1. January 1998

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it. […] but those who do will become well. Vernon Howard (1918-1992) US American spiritual teacher, philosopher, author

A shadow is just the part of Her that His light can’t banish or erase. Michael Tsarion, Irish macrohistorian, symbolist, sidereal astrologer, mythologist, occultist, conspiracy theorist, public speaker, author

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Dark side of corporations

See also: The Corporation, Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, 2003

The corporation remains as it was at the time of its origins, as a mad business institution in the middle of the nineteenth century, and legally designated "person" designed to valorize self interest and invalidate moral concern. Most people would find its "personality" abnormal, even psychopathic, in a human being, yet curiously we accept it in society’s most powerful institutions. Joel Bakan (*1959) Canadian lawyer, writer, The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Free Press, February 2004

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, and artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image. Joel Bakan (*1959) Canadian lawyer, writer, The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Free Press, February 2004

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philosopher of nihilism [LoC 120], The Gay Science [Die fröhliche Wissenschaft], section 179, 1882

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