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Ein verruchter Besen,
Der nicht hören will!
Stock, der du gewesen,
Steh doch wieder still!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter,
Ballade Der Zauberlehrling, 1797

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Realitätsvermeidung – Verleugnungsverhalten auf dem geistigen Weg

Zehn fehlangewendete spirituelle Konzepte zur Realitätsvermeidung

༺༻	Spiritueller Bypass Geistige Fallgrube	Verhaltenstendenz	Effekt Bemerkung
1.	Positives Denken Glückseligkeits-Falle	Sich selbst und anderen Positivität vorheucheln, um über den nicht geheilten Schatten hinwegzutäuschen, oft einhergehend mit dem überfliegenden Mantra "Alles ist gut."
2.	Intellektualisierungs-Falle	Flucht in den Verstand, um allein in und durch Gedanken zu leben, unentwegtes übermäßiges Intellektualisieren	⇒ Kopf-Trip mit dem Ziel, sich von der Gefühls- welt zu lösen; gut ausgebildete Fähigkeit, Bewusstseins-Modelle zu artikulieren, ohne herzlich und echt fühlend zu sprechen
3.	Bezeugungs-Falle	Stets im Zeugen- oder Beobachter-Bewusstsein leben, wie aus der Ferne auf den eigenen unerlösten Schmerzkörper starren und glauben, man sei präsent; hilfreiche Dissoziations-Techniken mit dem Leben selbst verwechseln	⇒ Pseudo-Gleichmut mit glänzenden Augen, sehr eingeschränkte Fühlfähigkeit; Der unerlöste innere Schmerz erstarrt zu einer Waffe, die sich nach innen gegen das eigene Selbst richtet.
4.	Pragmatismus-Falle	Bemühen, sich stets auf die greifbare, praktische Realität zu konzentrieren, um eine Einheits- oder Gesamtbild-Erfahrung zu vermeiden	⇒ Häufig bedeutender materieller Erfolg und spiritueller Bankrott
5.	"Alles-Ist-Eins"-Falle	Bemühen, sich stets auf das Einheitsbewusstsein zu konzentrieren, um spezifische Probleme, Heraus- forderungen und irdische Bedürfnisse zu vermeiden	⇒ Ungeerdetsein und Unvermögen, sich die eignen Bedürfnisse zu erfüllen, Abdriften ins große Mysterium
6.	Advaita-Falle Nicht-Dualitäts-Falle	Sich selbst als "nichtdual" einschätzen, um dem menschlichen Kampf auszuweichen	Nichtduale Vermeider entfernen das Unangenehme (Identifikationen, gestörtes Gefühlsrepertoire, Ich/Selbst, Körper) aus ihrem Wahrnehmungsspektrum, um ihre Menschlichkeit zu transzendieren und damit das notwendige Wasser auf der Seelenmühle fernzuhalten.
7.	Verantwortungs-Falle	Konzepte ("Welt als Spiegel", "Nicht-Urteilen") missbrauchen, um die eigene Mit-Verantwortung beziehungsweise die Verantwortung der anderen für falsches Handeln zu umgehen, gestützt auf die überfliegende Idee, dass es kein Fehlverhalten gibt	⇒ Ziel dieses Vermeidungsverhaltens ist, ungesundes Verhalten weiterhin zu erdulden oder fortsetzen zu können und Opfer zu entmutigen, einen rechtmäßigen und notwendigen Heilungsprozess einzuleiten
8.	"Du-bist-nicht-deine-Geschichte"-Falle	Durch Bagatellisierung der eigenen Geschichte dem Schmerz und der Verwirrung der persönlichen Lebenserfahrungen entfliehen.	Die eigene Geschichte beinhaltet das zu bearbeitende karmische Material (Identifikationen, Gefühlsleben, ungelöste Probleme). Dieses Wasser auf der Seelenmühle fördert das spirituelle Wachstum.
9.	Karmische Verträge	Einzelereignisse auf eine seelische oder universelle Absicht zurückführen ["Das hast du dir so kreiert", "Es war so bestimmt", "Deine Schwingung hat es angezogen", "Alles geschieht aus einem bestimmten Grund"], Bemühen, dem Schmerz, Unerklärlichen und Fehlgeleiteten vieler Erfahrungen zu entfliehen	⇒ Scham, persönliche und zwischenmensch- liche Realitätsverleugnung, Unvermögen Mitgefühl zu zeigen und Heilung anzustreben
10.	Vergebung	Unerlöste Emotionen und Beziehungserfahrungen durch voreilige, vorgetäuschte Vergebung vermeiden, jene beschuldigen, die noch nicht verziehen haben, Heilungsvermeidung.	Wahre Vergebung erfordert, seine Emotionen und die Erinnerungen seiner Erlebnisse zu konfrontieren, gefolgt von einer bewussten Entscheidung zu vergeben.

Quelle: ► Artikel Spiritual Bypassing – 10 Wege, die Realität zu vermeiden, englisches Original 10 Ways to Bypass the Real, 20. März
2014, präsentiert von dem US-amerikanischen Elephant Journal, Jeff Brown, M.A., kanadischer Rechtsanwalt, Psychologe, körper-
zentrierter Psychotherapeut, Autor, 10. März 2014, übersetzt und nachgedruckt von der Schweizer Zeitschrift Sein, November 2014

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Spiritual bypass

Siehe auch: ► Wirklichkeit und ► Fallen und ► Prüfungen und ► Weg

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Fan – Fanatisch – Fangemeinde – Fanatismus – Faszination

Wörter mit unbewusster Ladung: Fan ✣ Fanatiker ✣ Fanatismus ✣ Faszination

༺༻	Begriff	Etymologie – Beschreibung	Zeitrahmen / Bemerkung
1.	Fan Fangruppe Fangemeinde Fanbasis	Stammt von dem lateinischen Wort *fanaticus, was "wahnsinnig, jedoch göttlich inspiriert" bedeutet. Das Wort bezog sich ursprünglich auf einen Tempel oder heiligen Ort [lat. fanum, poetisches Englisch fane]. – Abkürzung für ⇒ "fanatisch" "Fan" ging aus auch aus dem englischen Wort "fancy" = "Raffinesse" hervor, aus dem das Wort "Phantasie" (griech. phantasia) entstand. Phantasia* bedeutet "überschattete Erscheinung und Meinung, sich für etwas begeistern" bisweilen gepaart mit Wahnvorstellungen. Eine "Fangruppe" ist eine Gemeinschaft von Fans, die ihre eigene Subkultur kreieren.	Die moderne Bedeutung von "extrem eifrig" [extremely zealous] entstand ~1647.
2.	Fanatiker	Mensch mit einer Vorliebe und Begeisterung für etwas, "das er mit übermäßigem Enthusiasmus und häufig ausnehmend unkritischer Hingabe ausübt" "Fanatiker schwelgen in einem impulsiven, berauschenden und schädlichen Gebräu aus selbstbestätigender, besserwisserischer Zuversicht, einen einzigartigen Zugang zur absoluten Wahrheit zu haben."	Das englische Wort fanatisch existiert seit ~1550. Als Substantiv gebrauchte man das Wort "Fanatiker" ab dem Jahr 1650.
3.	Fanatismus	"Fanatismus ist eine Droge." "Affektives Engagement" und "außergewöhnliches Streben"; "Die überbordende Begeisterung eines Fans für ein bestimmtes Thema unterscheidet sich vom Verhalten eines Fanatikers, der die geltenden sozialen Konventionen verletzt. Das Verhalten eines Fans mag zwar als seltsam oder exzentrisch eingeschätzt werden, doch verstößt es nicht gegen gesellschaftlichen Normen."	Vier Arten von Fanatismus: 1) befriedigend 2) verwüstend 3) gebrandmarkt / brandmarkend 4) bösartig
4.	Faszination	Faszination bedeutet starke Anziehungskraft, äußerstes Interesse, fesselnde Wirkung. Wortherkunft: vom lateinischen Wort *fascinatio* mit der Bedeutung: a) "Beschwörung", Magie, Zauberspruch, Verzauberung ⇒ unter einem Bann stehend, verzaubert sein, hypnotisiert, (übernatürlich) angezogen zu etwas, das zugleich anzieht und abstößt. b) "Jemandes Interesse/Aufmerksamkeit für eine bestimmte Thematik, Tätigkeit oder beliebige Leidenschaft"	Das lateinische Wort fascinare bedeutet zuschnüren, fesseln, bündeln. ⇒ unzuträgliche Bindung

Wiki-Referenzen: de.Wikipedia-Eintrag ► Fanatismus und ► de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Fanatismus

Referenz: ► Beitrag Was ist für Dich fanatisch?, präsentiert von der kalifornischen
Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 13. November 2019

Jenners Erstimpfung an dem 8-jährigen James Phipps, 14. Mai 1796
Der englische Landarzt ⚡ Edward Jenner (1749-1823), der die moderne Pockenschutzimpfung entwickelt hatte, bereute erst gegen Ende seines Lebens seinen Initialbeitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte
der Praxis des Impfens.
Er bekannte seinerzeit:
"Ich weiß nicht, ob ich nicht einen
furchtbaren Fehler gemacht habe."
Sein Sohn war zehn Monate alt, als Jenner die erste Pockenimpfung an ihm vornahm. Danach war sein Kind zeitlebens geistig behindert und starb im Alter von 21 Jahren. Im Gegensatz zu Jenner waren seine Nachfolger vom Glauben an die Richtigkeit ihres Handelns geradezu fanatisch überzeugt – ungeachtet einschneidender Misserfolge und
des Leids, das Tausenden Geimpften auferlegt wurde.

Zur Abwehr der Zweifel wird die bewusste Einstellung fanatisch, denn Fanatismus ist nichts anderes als überkom-
pensierter Zweifel. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der Tiefenpsychologie, Autor, Gesammelte Werke, Band 6. Psychologische Typen, Rascher, 10. revidierte Auflage 1967

Fanatismus findet sich nur bei solchen, die einen inneren Zweifel zu übertönen versuchen. Bonmot von Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der Tiefenpsychologie, Autor

Meistens sind Narzissten mit Conarzissten verbunden, die [problematischerweise] einen Gefallen darin finden, wenn sie Fan sein können, wenn sie jemanden verehren können und sich dadurch, dass sie jemanden haben, den sie für verehrungswürdig halten, sich nun selbst wieder stabilisieren.
Videointerview mit Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Interview mit dem Psychoanalytiker Hans-Joachim Maaz, präsentiert von der Initiative Berufung Mami, Gastgeberin Jeniffer (*1979) Mütteraktivistin, Bloggerin, YouTube Film, Minute 54:31, 1:09:55 Dauer, eingestellt 23. Februar 2019

Fanatiker sind ehrlich überzeugte Menschen, aber gleich anderen Geisteskranken in dieser Welt nicht zurechnungs-
fähig. Fanatismus ist eine der gefährlichsten Krankheiten. Er weckt alles Böse in der menschlichen Natur. Er reizt den Menschen auf zu Zorn und Hass und verwandelt ihn in einen Tiger.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) indischer Anhänger und Urheber der Ramakrishna-Bewegung, Mönch, Gelehrter, Jnana-Yoga. Der Pfad der Erkenntnis [1899], S. 194, Phänomen-Verlag, 20. Januar 2006, 2012

Geistlose kann man nicht begeistern, aber fanatisieren kann man sie.
Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) österreichische Aphoristikerin, Erzählerin, Novelistin, Schriftstellerin, Gesammelte Schriften. Erster Band. Aphorismen. Parabeln, Märchen und Gedichte, Gebrüder Paetel Verlag, Berlin, 1893,
Fünfhundert Aphorismen, 1911, Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 18. August 2017

Von der Philosophie zur Gottlosigkeit ist es ebenso weit als von der Religion zum Fanatismus, aber vom Fanatismus
zur Barbarei ist es nur ein Schritt.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) französischer Philosoph der Aufklärung, Kunstkritiker, Mitorganisator, Herausgeber und Verfasser
der Encyclopédie, Literatur- und Kunsttheoretiker, Schriftsteller, Dédicace de l'essai sur le mérite et la vertu, 1745

Der Fanatismus ist die einzige 'Willensstärke', zu der auch die Schwachen gebracht werden können.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Philologe, Kulturkritiker, Philosoph des Nihilismus, Schriftsteller, Werke in drei Bänden, Band II, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Fünftes Buch "Die Gläubigen und ihr Bedürfnis
nach Glauben", Ernst Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1882, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 1954/1956, Insel Verlag, 18. April 2000

Der Fanatismus ist für den Aberglauben, was das Delirium für das Fieber, was die Raserei für den Zorn.
Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) französischer Historiker, Philosoph der europäischen Aufklärung, Deist, Kritiker
der Feudalherrschaft, Bürgerrechtler, Wegbereiter der Französischen Revolution, Schriftsteller, Philosophisches Wörterbuch
[Dictionnaire philosophique portatif], Genf/London 1764

Pro-fan-ität ist der Versuch eines trägen und kraftlosen Verstandes, sich forciert auszudrücken. US-amerikanische Redewendung

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Reaktionen auf die Schau des siebten Himmels

Eines Nachts kam ein Engel zu vier Rabbinern auf Besuch.
Er weckte sie auf und trug sie auf seinen Schwingen in die siebte Kammer des Siebten Himmels.
Dort erblickten die vier Neuankömmlinge mit eigenen Augen das Heilige Rad von Hesekiel.

༺༻	Verhalten	Erläuterung
1.	Irre werden	Schon auf dem Rückweg zu ihrem Heimatplaneten Erde verlor der erste Rabbiner seinen Verstand, denn sein Geist war so stark vom göttlichen Glanz geblendet worden, dass er fortan nur noch brab- belnd durch die Lande irrte.
2.	Verleugnung	Der zweite Rabbiner zeigte sich unbeeindruckt und zynisch. Er verleugnete schlicht, was er im Siebten Himmel gesehen hatte. Abwinkend gab er gab zum Besten:	Ach was, das haben wir doch bloß geträumt!
3.	Fanatismus	Der dritte Rabbiner entpuppte sich als fanatischer Eiferer. Sein Terminkalender war voll. Er hielt Vorträge und Seminare über die Bedeutung und die Hintergründe seines Erlebnisses und argumentierte mit anderen Gelehrten.

4.	Herzenspoesie	Und der vierte Rabbiner wurde ein Dichter, der am Fenster seines Zimmers saß und ein Danklied nach dem anderen verfasste über die Tauben im Kirschbaum, seine kleine Tochter in der Wiege und den mit Sternen übersäten Nachthimmel.	Er war der Einzige unter den vier Himmelsgästen, die Gott geschaut hatten, der es vermochte, sein Glück zu ertragen.

Inspiriert durch: ► Clarissa Pinkola Estes (*1945) US-amerikanische Jungsche Psychoanalytikerin, Posttraumaspezialistin,
Dichterin, Die Wolfsfrau. Die Kraft der weiblichen Urinstinkte, Heyne Verlag, 8. Auflage 1. September 1997

Siehe auch: ► Dankbarer Dichter ► Geschichtensammlung ► Zynismus ► Glück ► Gnade ► Gott ► Verrückt ► Kulte ► Dankbarkeit

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Zitate zum Thema psychologischer Schatten / psychological shadow

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Zitate allgemein

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

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Schattenseite der "Egotötung"

So berichtet [André] van der Braak:
"Andrew [Cohen begann immer mehr darüber zu reden, dass wir "das Ego töten müssten". Der Fokus ging immer mehr darauf, unser Verhalten zu ändern, uns zu reinigen und Erleuchtung im Leben auszudrücken."

Schattenwurf im Nebel, Oulujoki, Vaalankurkku-Eisenbahnbrücke
Nähe Vaala, Nordost-Finnland

Damit einhergehend entwickelte sich eine äußerst de-
struktive Gruppendynamik, bei der sich die Mitglieder untereinander mehr und mehr – unter dem Deckmäntelchen der Egozerstörung – auf der psychischen Ebene zerfleischten:

"Später hatten wir immer häufiger Treffen, in denen wir uns gegenseitig angingen, uns gegenseitig anschrien, nur um unser Ego zu zerstören."

Artikel Gemeinsam auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung. Gemeinsam auf dem Weg zur Erleuchtung, präsentiert von der Publikation Yoga aktuell, Doris Iding, S. 4, Heft 29, Heft 6, 1. Dezember 2004

Empfehlungen

Wende dein Gesicht der Sonne zu, dann fallen die Schatten hinter dich. Sprichwort aus Südafrika

Die Ränder des Schattens fragten den Schatten und sprachen:
»Bald bist du gebückt, bald bist du aufrecht; bald bist du zerzaust, bald bist du gekämmt; bald sitzest du, bald stehst du auf; bald läufst du, bald bleibst du stehen. Wie geht das zu?«

Der Schatten sprach:

»Alterchen, Alterchen, wie fragt Ihr oberflächlich! Ich bin, aber weiß nicht, warum ich bin. Ich bin wie die leere Schale der Zikade, wie die abgestreifte Haut der Schlange. Ich sehe aus wie etwas, aber ich bin es nicht. Im Feuerschein und bei Tag bin ich kräftig. An sonnenlosen Orten und bei Nacht verblasse ich. Von dem andern
da (dem Körper) bin ich abhängig, ebenso wie der wieder von einem andern abhängt. Kommt er, so komme
ich mit ihm. Geht er, so gehe ich mit ihm. Ist er stark und kraftvoll, so bin ich mit ihm stark und kraftvoll. Bin
ich stark und kraftvoll, was brauche ich dann noch zu fragen?«

Dschuang Dschou [Chuang-tzu, Tschuang-tse, Meister Zhuang] (~365-290 v. Chr.) chinesischer Philosoph, Dichter, Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) bedeutender deutschsprachiger Sinologe, Theologe, Missionar, Übersetzer, Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland, [aus: Werke von Zhuangzi, entstanden im 4. Jht. v. Chr., 1912], Buch II, 11. Schatten und Halbschatten, Düsseldorf/Köln 1972, Diederichs, 10. August 2006

Hase, chinesisches Schattenspiel
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) französischer Maler

Wer in den Spiegel des Wassers blickt, sieht allerdings zunächst sein eigenes Bild. Wer zu sich selber geht, ris-
kiert die Begegnung mit sich selbst. Der Spiegel schmei-
chelt nicht, er zeigt getreu, was in ihn hineinschaut, näm-
lich jenes Gesicht, das wir der Welt nie zeigen, weil wir es durch die Persona, die Maske des Schauspielers, verhül-
len. Der Spiegel aber liegt hinter der Maske und zeigt das wahre Gesicht. Dies ist die erste Mutprobe auf dem inne-
ren Wege, eine Probe, die genügt, um die meisten abzu-
schrecken, denn die Begegnung mit sich selber gehört zu
den unangenehmeren Dingen, denen man entgeht, solan-
ge man alles Negative auf die Umgebung projizieren kann. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der analy-
tischen Tiefenpsychologe, Autor, Bewusstes und Unbewusstes. Beiträge zur Psychologie, S. 28, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1985, 1. Januar 1990

Bis wir nicht die dunkle Seite eines Menschen kennen gelernt haben, wissen wir nicht wirklich, wer er ist.
Bis wir ihm nicht seine dunkle Seite verziehen haben, wissen wir nicht wirklich, was Liebe ist.

Marianne Williamson (*1952) US-amerikanische visionäre spirituelle Lehrerin, politische Aktivistin, Referentin, Autorin,
Illuminata. A Return to Prayer, Riverhead Trade, 1. November 1995

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.
Dr. Robert Moore (1942-2016) US-amerikanischer Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Professor für Psychologie, Berater, Autor, Douglas Gillette, Mitautor, Der Magier im Mann. Wege zum inneren Schamanen, S. 219, Walter-Verlag, Solothurn, Düsseldorf, 1995

Im Land der Schatten ist die Wahrheit eine Lüge.
Thomas Drake (*1957) US-amerikanischer ehemaliger Angestellter der National Security Agency (NSA), Experte für Softwaretests, Whistleblower, zitiert in: Artikel Der Fall Snowden: Thomas Drake. Was das Vorbild zu sagen hat, präsentiert von dem deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender ARD, Sendung Weltspiegel, 15. April 2014

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

Referenzen: de.Wikiquote-Einträge ► Schatten und ► Licht

Literaturzitate

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Kulturkritiker, Philologe, Philosoph des Nihilismus, Schriftsteller, Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, Aphorismus 146, C. G. Naumann, Leipzig, 1886

Wer seinen Schatten gesehen hat, ist größer als derjenige, der die Engel gesehen hat. Wer die Abgründe berührt und doch das Leben gewählt hat, hält die Welt aufrecht. Christiane Singer (1943-2007) französische Schriftstellerin, N'oublie pas les chevaux écumants du passé [Vergiss nicht die schäumenden Pferde der Vergangenheit], Albin Michel, Paris, 2005

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General quotes

The shadows of this world are perceived by mortals, and they think they know the Truth, but
the Reality which casts the shadows is hidden from them, and they do not perceive the Light.
Sayings 2, 2 (OT)

Personal avowals

As I stood in the stream of fury, unable to understand how I had unleashed this awesome blast of rage, I had a sudden realization – I immediately understood that this explosion of temper was my OWN. It was the astonishing power and depth of my own anger reflected back to me. With this sudden and total shift came the clear understanding that I was looking at myself, into the depths of my own murderous rage.
I instantly understood that there was no difference between us – that his anger outside, and my anger inside, were the same. All my feelings of reactivity, of defense, of indignation were gone, replaced in a moment with the certain know-
ledge that I was looking into the face of my own anger – my own SHADOW FACE.
David Lowell Kearn, US American author, Greeting the Shadow That Lives Down the Road, cited in: article, presented by the quar-
terly journal of Jungian Thought Psychological Perspectives, volume 27, issue 1, S. 110-114, 1992

Thatched cottage in pasture landscape, 1921
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) French painter

The shadow is, so to say, the blind spot in your nature. It’s that which you won’t look at about yourself. […] You can recognize who it is by simply thinking of the people you don't like. They correspond to that person whom you might have been – otherwise they wouldn't mean very much to you. People who excite you either positively or negatively have caught something projected from yourself […]. I don't know whether you've had similar experiences in your life, but there are people I despise the minute I see them. These people represent those aspects of myself, the existence of which I refuse to admit to myself. Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion, author, Pathways To Bliss. Mythology and Personal Transformation, passage "Archetypes, Relationship, Shadow, Anima/Animus, and Personal Myth", S. 95, ReadHowYouWant, large edition 16. May 2012, 30. July 2013

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 psy-
chological 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.
Article by Arno Gruen (1923-2015) German-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, critic of civilization, author, The Need to Punish. The Political Consequences of Identifying with the Aggressor,
presented at Martti Siirala's 80th birthday seminar, Helsinki, Finland, 30. November 2002

Collective avowal

We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an animal who has not been fed or watered. It is you! This neglected, exiled animal, hungry for attention, is a part of your self.
Marion Woodman (1928-2018) Canadian Jungian analyst, women's movement figure, mythopoetic author, cited in: Stephen Cope, The Great Work Of Your Life. A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, Bantam, 25. September 2012

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The spirit of the depths is pregnant with ice, fire, and death. You are right to fear the spirit of the depths, as he is full of horror. You see in these days what the spirit of the depths bore. You did not believe it, but you would have known it if you had taken counsel with your fear. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Sonu Shamdasani, Indian historian, editor, illustrated manuscript The Red Book
[Liber Novus], S. 238, Philemon Series, The Philemon Foundation and W.W. Norton & Company, 9. October 2009

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dra-
gons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are
only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something
helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restive-
ness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is
happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you
want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know
what work these conditions are doing inside you.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian poet, novelist, Letters to a Young Poet, written 1903-1908, published 1929

If you can touch your shadow – within form – and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy
will flow from it.
Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, Owning Your Own Shadow. Understanding the
Dark Side of the Psyche, Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1991, reprint edition 5. March 1993, Harper One, 9. June 2009

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Conclusions

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) US American author of short stories, children's books, novels, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction, The Wave in the Mind. Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 1st paperback edition 17. February 2004

Insights

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 – out-
side of reality and outside of life. And such a self cannot help but be an illusion.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic Trappist monk, mystic student of comparative religion, social activist, poet, writer, New Seeds of Contemplation, S. 33,
New Direction, revised edition March 1972

We need to be aware of the dark side and in fact to accept the dark side. […] That ability to accept that there is this dark side as the Jungians say to character is very important because by denying it we actually end up doing a lot of harm in misun-
derstanding ourselves and others. Removed video presentation by Iain McGilchrist, M.D. (*1953) British psychiatrist, physician, literary scholar, New College, Oxford, neuroimaging researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, writer, Things Are Not What They Seem, presented by the Schumacher College, Dartington, United Kingdom, filmed by TV Dartington, minute 35:45, 1:29:04 duration, posted 23. May 2011

We're projecting our shadow, our own darkness [...] and just remember this is a dream, if I project out my own darkness [...] well then what's going to happen is the dream is then going to offer me somebody who is going to embody the very shadow that I am projecting. So now I have evidence that the shadow really is out there, so I become even more entrenched in that viewpoint, of like the shadow, the evil, is not in me. There look, that person's playing it out, I have all the proof I need so then that's the vicious cycle where I actually dream up this world to actually enact an inner process, because the whole process is a reflection of my being dissociated from my own darkness.
And of course, what do I do when I see somebody who is embodying my shadow, I try to destroy them, which is the very reflection of what I was doing to my own inner darkness in the beginning is to try get rid of it and by then trying to destroy the person who is embodying the evil, I become possessed by the very evil that I am trying to destroy. And so I've unwittingly, actually, I'm investing more evil into my attempt to try to eradicate evil and that whole process, behind the scenes, the wetiko bug, is gorging off of the polarization.
Video TV interview with Paul Levy (*1956) US American psycho-activating healer, artist, author, Paul Levy being interviewed on TV, presented by the US American Portland Communty Media (TV), hosts Jim Wrathall, Sally Stepath and Diane Tierney, Portland, Oregon, 3. November 2013, YouTube film, minute 49:31, 58:58 minutes duration, posted 20. November 2013

The soul cannot enter into the fusion of divine love with its shadow clinging to its skirt. It must strip itself of identifica-
tion of the small self and step naked into the Garden where the Beloved is waiting.
John of the Cross [San Juan de la Cruz] (1542-1591) Spanish Catholic saint, mystic, Carmelite friar, priest, leading figure of the Counter-Reformation, poem Dark Night of the Soul, 16th century, Penguin, 2003

There was a man who was frightened at his shadow and disliked to see his footsteps, so that he ran to escape from them. But the more frequently he lifted his feet, the more numerous his footprints were; and however fast he ran, his shadow did not leave him.
He thought he was going too slow, and ran on with all his speed without stopping, till his strength was exhausted and
he died. He did not know that, if he had stayed in a shady place, his shadow would have disappeared, and that if he had remained still, he would have lost his footprints.
Zhuangzi [Chuang Tzu] (~365-290 BC) influential Chinese philosopher during the warring states period, James Legge, translator,
The Writings of Chuang Tzu, Book 31 "The Old Fisherman", Oxford University Press, 1891

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 (1181/82-1226) Italian Catholic saint, friar, preacher, founder of the Franciscan Order, social reformer, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

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Shadow avoidance as the source of addiction

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) defined addiction totally insufficiently. [...] AA has defined addiction [in general, alcoholism in particular] as a disease and that the addict is helpless over the disease. I don't particularly buy that. I find that to be a rather challenging position, especially when one positions it within a spiritual context and a spiritual journey of the empowerment of the self. [...]
The addict didn't even exist as an archetype until the 20th century. [...]
Every single one of us is a born addict. That's a given. Why is that? We are not born congruent. Addiction at its
heart is the separation between the mind and the heart. [...]
We have so much shadow within us, it is incomprehensible. And that's why we're addicts. And we don't face
that truth about us. And that's why we're addicts.

Deleted video DVD presentation by Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Addiction Workshop, sponsored by Hockley Valley, Ontario, Canada, archived by CMED Institute, minute 63:57, 1:08:09 duration, recorded August 2011

Park fence shadow distorted by an
uneven snow surface, Penza

It is said that some old Zen masters have done so much work upon their shadow that they will do greedy things right in front of you and laugh. By showing the greediness directly, in daylight, somehow they bring it out of the world of shadow and into the world of play. Robert Bly (1926-2021) US American activist, leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement, poet, author, A Little Book on the Human Shadow, HarperOne, 22. June 1988

The tendency to see one's shadow 'out there' in one's neighbor or in another race or culture is the most dangerous aspect of the modern psyche.
Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, Owning Your Own Shadow. Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, S. 27, Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1991, reprint edition
5. March 1993, Harper One, 9. June 2009

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The danger of falling in love:

Looking at one's own projection of God

Though no one notices at the time, in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. If two people are in love, they tread on star dust for a time and live happily ever after – that is so long as this experience of divinity has obliterated time for them. Only when they come down to earth do they have to look at each other realistically and only then does the possibility of mature love exist. If one person is in love and the other not, the cooler one is likely to say, "We would have some-
thing better between us if you would look at me rather than at your image of me."
Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, Owning Your Own Shadow. Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Harper Collins, San Francisco, 1991, reprint edition 5. March 1993, Harper One, 9. June 2009

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the ‘prima materia’ from which all real growth comes.
Audio interview with Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, cited in: AZ Quotes

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Harmful addiction to transcendence

[M]ost of the ancient traditions in their more obvious forms are addicted to transcendence, are addicted to a privileging of the light over the forms that are born out of the light. So [they] are fundamentally concerned with helping us get into radical connection with the light, with the danger of dropping relationships, the world, justice, our relationship with all other creatures, in the process. […] [T]his radical addiction to transcendence is a very great subtle temptation [that] most people on the Path do not avoid. […]
[A] marrying of the Divine Light consciousness with the mind and the heart and the body […] cannot be done without an immersion in the shadow [of the mystical traditions' addiction to transcendence, the body hatred, sexual shame, the collective defeat triggering denial, disbelief, disillusion] and a profound desire to our own personal shadow, [the traumas, the personal addiction to an addicted society]. So the descent of the light into the mind, the heart, and the body can only be accomplished by a surrender to this very difficult, very grueling process.
Audio interview with Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Evolutionary Mysticism, presented by the US American multimedia publishing company Sounds True, Insights at the Edge, host Tami Simon (*1953) US American founder and director of Sounds True, minute 36:18, 59:24 minutes duration, aired 22. June 2010

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.
Article by Robert Thurman, Ph.D. (*1941) US American college professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, president of the US Tibet House, theologian, philosopher, educator, civil rights leader, author, named among the 25 most influential people by TIME in 1997, Rising to the Challenge: Cool Heroism, presented by the US American quarterly magazine Tricycle. The Buddhist Review, spring 2003

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 (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, Illuminata. A Return to Prayer, Riverhead Trade, 1. November 1995

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Manifestions of the US shadow: imperialism, corruption, materialistic obsession, "throwaway culture"

America's Pluto casts a long shadow. Whether by role-modeling or coercion, the rest of humanity is darkened by its umbra.
Jessica Murray (*1951) US American astrologer, psychologist, Jungian analyst, linguist, cultural commentor, writer, Soul-sick Nation, S. 43, AuthorHouse, 6. October 2006,
Jessica Murray Mothersky Press, 28. February 2008

Those who we project on own pieces of our unclaimed darkness as well as pieces of our unclaimed light until we take back all what we have projected away. What we can't be with won't let us be. […]
What you resist will persist. If you don't deal with your shadow it will deal with you.
Debbie Ford (1955-2013) US American coach, lecturer, self-help author, cited in: documentary/DVD The Shadow Effect Documentary, produced by Debbie Ford seconded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (*1946) Indian US American physician, public speaker, self-help writer, Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, produced 26. June 2009, YouTube film, minutes 20:34 and 27:41, 1:10:32 duration, posted 29. November 2017

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, cited in: AZ Quotes

The underworld became this fiery place that we must never go to when actually the underworld is the only place we [women] should go to. Audio interview with Christine Page, M.D., British physician, "wisdom keeper", president of the "International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine", speaker, author, Illness As A Message From The Soul, presented by the US American web radio station New Dimensions, program #3486, host Justine Willis-Toms, minute 44:34, 57:00 minutes duration, posted 8. January 2014

Human consciousness does not emerge at any depth except through struggling with your shadow. I wish someone had told me that when I was young. It is in facing your conflicts, criticisms, and contradictions that you grow up. You actually need to have some problems, enemies, and faults! You will remain largely unconscious as a human being until issues come into your life that you cannot fix or control and something challenges you at your present level of development, forcing you to expand and deepen. It is in the struggle with our shadow self, with failure, or with wounding, that we break into higher levels of consciousness. I doubt whether there is any other way. People who refine this consciousness to a high spiritual state, who learn to name and live with paradoxes, are the people I would call prophetic speakers. We must refine and develop this gift. I doubt whether there is any other way.
Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B. (*1936) US American Benedictine nun, speaker, author, Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943)
US American Franciscan friar, enneagram teacher, author, Want 2 Meet the Real U?, adapted from Prophets Then, Prophets Now,
7 Audio CDs, 2006, 19. February 2015

In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will, while Ishtar descends of her own accord to beat at the gates of Hell. This road of darkness lies to the West, according to Native American myth, and each of us must travel it at some point in our lives. The western road is one of trials, ordeals, disasters and abrupt life changes – yet a road to be honored, nevertheless, as the road on which wisdom is gained. James Hillman (1926-2013), whose theory of 'archetypal psychology' draws extensively on Greco-Roman myth, echoes this belief when he argues that darkness is vital at certain periods of life, questioning our modern tendency to equate mental health with happiness. It is in the Underworld, he reminds us, that seeds germinate and prepare for spring. Myths of descent and rebirth connect the soul's cycles to those of nature. Essay by Terri Windling (*1958) US American artist, editor, essayist, author, essay The Dark of the Wood: Rites-of-Passage Tales, presented by The Journal of Mythic Arts (JoMa), 2005

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed,
by the masses.
Plato (427-347 BC) Ancient Greek pre-Christian philosopher, founder of the occidental philosophy, The Republic, 360 BC

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Legacy of torture

Someone who has been tortured remains tortured forever [...] Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. The shame of destruction cannot be erased. Trust in the world, which already collapsed in part at the first blow, but in the end, under torture, fully, will not be regained. That one's fellow man was experienced as the antiman remains in the tortured person as accumulated horror. Jean Améry (1912-1978) Austrian-born essayist, tortured by the Gestapo, At the Mind’s Limits. Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities, S. 40, Schocken, New York, 1966

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Collective shadow

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. (*1954) US American co-founder of the "Collective Wisdom Initiative", consultant, artist, researcher, author, The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, S. 53, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1. January 1998

Three Breton girls light candles before a procession
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) French painter

The dark magicians of this world have cast a shadow so expansive, so pervasive and so complete that the common man, inexperienced in the mystical arts, will run to the hills and scurry into the blackness at the site of even the smallest fructifying ray of illumined truth. The light occultists of our time are presented with man's greatest challenge, we must head toward that flame each illuminating his own candle and circumscribe the darkness and let the only shadows that be cast be that of each and every man, bathed in the light of the divine essence. Marty Leeds, US American song writer, numerlogist, author, The Peacock's Tales. The Alchemical Writings of Claudia Pavonis, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, paperback issue 27. January 2014

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.
Commonly attributed Joan Robinson (1903-1983) British post-Keynesian economist, well known for her work on monetary economics, cited in: Quotefancy

A shadow is just the part of Her that His light can't banish or erase.
Michael Tsarion (*1968) Irish macrohistorian, symbolist, sidereal astrologer, mythologist, occultist, "conspiracy" researcher, public speaker, author, Astro-Theology and Sidereal Mythology, S. 34, presented by legenslife.files, March 2018

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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 professor of law, University of British Columbia, filmmaker, 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 professor of law, University of British Columbia, filmmaker, writer, The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Free Press, February 2004

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Plato's cave allegory

The prisoners are, indeed, not dumb when it comes to shadows on the wall. They observe them closely, and some of them are quite impressive in recognizing and predicting the sequences in which the shadows appear, and they are awarded honors and prizes by their fellow-prisoners. The fact that the objects of their observation are only shadows, and not real things, naturally does not bother them. And if the returning ex-prisoner had to compete with the cave dwellers in the observation of shadows, everyone in the cave would think that the ex-prisoner had ruined his eyesight, and that going outside the cave is a waste. So hostile are the troglodytes to the idea of leaving the cave, in fact, that they would eagerly kill anyone who tried to lead them out into the light. Jorn K. Bramann, Plato. The Failure of Democracy, presented by the Wordpress blogspot spacezilotes, sooteris kyritsis, 6. September 2007, cited in: Educating Rita and Other Philosophical Movies, Nightsun Books, 2009

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Shadow work

If you want the treasure you have to face the dragon. Skype video/audio interview with ⚡ Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D. (*1947) Canadian psychologist, psychotherapist, cult leader of Xanthyros community, author, 081. Robert Augustus Masters, presented by the US American podcast Buddha at the Gas Tank. Interviews with "ordinary" spiritually awakened people, host and founder of Batgap Rick Archer, US American former TM meditator, aired 1. August 2011, minute 10:11, 1:44:47 duration, posted 4. August 2011
Removed upon RAM's request on 12. March 2014, reinstated 2016

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Teacher's shadow as an essential ingredient of a cult.

More and more spiritual teachers are being caught with [their] pants and halos down. [...] I do hold people responsible who get into this trouble [sexual exploitation with their teacher] with teachers by holding the teachers more responsible. And it's very, very common. [...] Even the most immature of us still has a bullshit dedector [...] but we may be a little frightened to say it because that person [the flawed teacher] has more authority. A healthy teacher encouarages students to have access to their own innate autonomy and authority right from the very beginning which means he or she will get questioned more which makes the thing healthier and which makes the possibility that this thing wil turn into a cult less likely, but that's uncommon unfortunately. Skype video/audio interview with ⚡ Robert Augustus Masters, Ph.D. (*1947) Canadian psychologist, psychotherapist, cult leader of Xanthyros community, author, 081. Robert Augustus Masters, presented by the US American podcast Buddha at the Gas Tank. Interviews with "ordinary" spiritually awakened people, host and founder of Batgap Rick Archer, US American former TM meditator, aired 1. August 2011, minute 37:44, 1:44:47 duration, posted 4. August 2011 Removed upon RAM's request on 12. March 2014, reinstated 2016

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Shadows

Quotes on the shadow by Carl Jung

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Future outlook

The future of mankind very much depends upon the recognition of the shadow.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, Aniela Jaffé, editor, Letters of
C. G. Jung. Volume I, 1906-1950, S. 541, Routledge, 17. May 1973

The Shadow describes the part of the psyche that an individual would rather not acknowledge. It contains the denied parts of the self. Since the self contains these aspects, they surface in one way or another. Bringing Shadow material into consciousness drains its dark power, and can even recover valuable resources from it. The greatest power, however, comes from having accepted your shadow parts and integrated them as components of your Self. Everyone carries a Shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all
counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. One does not become enlightened
by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, cited in: article Carl Jung and the Shadow: The Hidden Power
of Our Dark Side, presented by the publication academyofideas.com, 17. December 2015

Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author,
R. F. C. Hull, translator, The Integration of the Personality, Farrar & Rinehart, 1939

Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. 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 (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. West and East – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11, S. 131, 1938, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition January 1975

If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. West and East – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11, S. 131, 1938,
Princeton University Press, 1973, 2nd edition January 1975

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal
with a considerably intensified shadow. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new
school of depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. West and East – Collected Works of C. G. Jung,
Volume 11, "Answer to Job", S. 1, 1954, Princeton University Press, 1973, 2nd edition January 1975

[I]f such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. West and East – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11, "Answer to Job", S. 1, 1954, Princeton University Press, 1973, 2nd edition January 1975

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 (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author,
R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. East and West, paragraph 140, 1938, Routledge, 2nd edition May 1970

If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious
of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. […] Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author,
R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. East and West, S 140, 1938, Routledge, 2nd edition May 1970

The change of character brought about by the uprush of collective forces is amazing. A gentle and reasonable being can be transformed into a maniac or a savage beast. One is always inclined to lay the blame on external circumstances, but nothing could explode in us if it had not been there. As a matter of fact, we are constantly living on the edge of a volcano, and there is, so far as we know, no way of protecting ourselves from a possible outburst that will destroy everybody within reach. It is certainly a good thing to preach reason and common sense, but what if you have a lunatic asylum for an audi-
ence or a crowd in a collective frenzy? There is not much difference between them because the madman and the mob are both moved by impersonal, overwhelming forces. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Psychology and Religion. West and East – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11, S. 25, 1938, Princeton University Press, 1973, 2nd edition January 1975

Victor van Werkhooven, September 2008

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to stop from facing their souls. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoana-
lyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Psychology and Alchemy – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12,
S. 99, 1944, Routledge, London, 2nd edition 1968

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 (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor,
R. F. C. Hull, translator, Aion. Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. Collected Works of C.G. Jung Volume 9 (Part 2), S. 14, 1935, 1951, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition 1. June 1979, 2nd revised edition
1. August 1981

To become conscious of (the shadow) involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Aion. Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. Collected Works of C.G. Jung Volume 9 (Part 2), S. 14, 1935, 1951, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition 1. June 1979, 2nd revised edition 1. August 1981

Closer examination of the dark characteristics – that is, the inferiorities constituting the shadow – reveals that they have an emotional nature, a kind of autonomy, and accordingly an obsessive, or, better, possessive quality. Emotion, incidentally, is not an activity of the individual but something that happens to him.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion, author, here editor, The Portable Jung, S. 952, Penguin Books, 9. December 1976

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 (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1). Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, paragraph 478, Princeton University Press, 2nd revised edition 1. August 1981

If the activation is due to the collapse of the individual's hopes and expectations, there is a danger that the collective unconscious may take the place of reality. This state would be pathological. If, on the other hand, the activation is the result of psychological processes in the unconscious of the people, the individual may feel threatened or at any rate disoriented, but the resultant state is not pathological, at least so far as the individual is concerned. Nevertheless, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Michael Fordham, editor, The Structure of the Psyche (1913-1935), included in: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8, essay "The Psychological Foundation for the Belief in Spirits", S. 595, 1920, Princeton University Press, 1. January 1970

Whenever contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have a disturbing effect on the conscious mind, and contusion ensues. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Michael Fordham, editor, The Structure of the Psyche (1913-1935), included in: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 8, essay "The Psychological Foundation for the Belief in Spirits", S. 595, 1920, Princeton University Press, 1. January 1970

[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 (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Letters. Volume 2, 1951-1961, S. 595, Princeton University Press, 1. April 1976

Just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, S. 326, Fontana Press, 1961, reissued edition 6. March 1995

It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and
foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. […] The individual seldom knows anything of this […] but let these
harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster's body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature. Blindly he strives against the salutary dogma of original sin, which is yet so prodigiously true. Yes, he even hesitates to admit the conflict of which he is so painfully aware.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author,
R. F. C. Hull, translator, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 7, essay "On the Psychology of the Unconscious", 1912, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953, S. 35, Princeton University Press, 1967, 2nd edition 1. April 1972, Routledge, London, 2nd edition 1992

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Shadow

Masculine split-mindedness

Despite all attempts at denial and obfuscation there is an unconscious factor, a black sun, which is responsible for the surprisingly common phenomenon of masculine split-mindedness, when the right hand mustn't know what the left is doing.
This split in the masculine psyche and the regular darkening of the moon in woman together explain the remarkable fact that the woman is accused of all the darkness in a man, while he himself basks in the thought that he is a veritable fount
of vitality and illumination for the females in his environment.
Actually he would be better advised to shroud the brilliance of his mind in the profoundest doubt. It is not difficult for this type of mind (which besides other things is a great trickster like Mercurius) to admit a host of sins in the most convincing way, and even to combine it with a spurious feeling of ethical superiority without in the least approximating to a genuine insight.
This can never be achieved without the participation of feeling; but the intellect admits feeling only when it is convenient. The novilunium of woman is a source of countless disappointments for man which easily turns to bitterness, though they could equally well be a source of wisdom if they were understood.
Naturally this is possible only if he is prepared to acknowledge his black sun, that is, his Shadow.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, John Beebe (*1939) US American Jungian analyst, editor, Aspects of the Masculine, S. 138, Princeton University Press, 1st Princeton/Bollingen edited paperback edition 1. May 1989

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new
school of analytical depth psychology, author, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Alchemical Studies – Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 13, "The Philosophical Tree", 1945, S. 335, 1967, Princeton University Press, 1983

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Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Do not defend your downside(s), accept it.
Own your downside completely. If not, you might get attacked.
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlightenment, author, source unknown

Shadow of a lantern during sunset

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, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlightenment, author, I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 331, 2003

To be prone to "hurt feelings" is egocentric and a form of social paranoia. When we admit our downside and learn to laugh at it, we are no longer vulnerable to slights and insults. It is beneficial to list all of one's human foibles and limitations and make peace with them in order to be at peace with oneself. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlighten-
ment, author, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 9 "Social Structure and Functional Truth", S. 112, 2005

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, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlightenment, author, Healing and Recovery, S. 164-165, 2009

One of the blocks to emotional development is the fear of what lies buried in our unconscious. Carl Jung called this area, which we are unwilling to look at and to own, the "shadow." He said that the self cannot become healed and whole unless we look at and acknowledge the shadow. This means that buried within us all, in what Jung called the "collective unconscious," is everything that we most dislike admitting about ourselves. The average human, he said, would much rather project his shadow onto the world and condemn it and see it as evil, thinking that his problem is to battle with evil in the world. In actuality, the problem is merely to acknowledge the presence of such thoughts and impulses in ourselves. By acknowledging them, they become quiet. Once they are quiet, they no longer unconsciously run us. In looking at our fears of the unknown, which are really fears of what is in the depths of the unconscious, it is useful to have a sense of humor. Once looked at and acknowledged, the shadow no longer has any power. In fact, it is only our fear of these thoughts and impulses that give them any power. Once we become acquainted with our shadow, we no longer have to project our fears upon the world, and they begin to evaporate rapidly.
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlightenment, author, Letting Go. The Pathway of Surrender, S. 96, Kindle locations 1435-1437, October 2012

The purpose of the lectures is to prepare you for the downside of what will come up if you are spiritually, serious-
ly 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, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of the path of enlightenment, author, Sedona Seminar Realization of the Self: Final Moments, 3 DVD set, 14. December 2002

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Englische Texte – English section on the Shadow

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Shadow imprints

Cartoon von Servio Aragonés
Adan Avelar Islas, Grafiker, Blog, MAD, 1979

The shadow is
° a part of the unconscious
[repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, instincts]
° a reservoir for human darkness
° instinctive
° irrational
° archetypal
° personal and collective
° consists of several layers
° the seat of creativity
° independent of the conscious mind
° prone to personal projection¹
° prone to collective projection²
° personifies all what one refuses to acknowledge about oneself
° represents a tight passage (a narrow door)
° characterized by Darth Vader (Luke Skywalker's downside),
Cinderella, the Frog Prince, the monstrous Minotaur,
werewolves.

See also: ► Unconscious

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Four stages of shadow integration

4-step model of shadow integration: Appearance ◊ Encounter ◊ Merger ◊ Assimilation

༺༻	Encountering·one's·shadow	Legend
1.	Appearance of the shadow	Personal shadow and collective shadow; appears typically as a person of the same sex as that of the dreamer', possibly with dark features, much of the shadow is inherited from the collective unconscious (cultural programming)
2.	Encounter with the shadow	Central part in the process of individuation³; breakdown (dissolution) of the persona; becoming aware of and possibly ashamed of one's egotism, mental laziness, sloppiness, unreal fantasies, plots, carelessness, cowardice, greed, etc.; danger of falling victim to the shadow

3.	Merger with the shadow	♦ Dr. Jekyll, the conscious personality, must descend to integrate Hyde.⁴ ♦ Conscious ego (Prince) and shadow (Cinderella) marry. ♦ Ego and shadow arenbrought together in a precarious unity. ♦ melancholia, standstill that makes convictions ineffective; genuine courage and strength are required, no certainty rendered; possible ascent, i.e. enantiodromia, and assimilation of the shadow
4.	Assimilation of the shadow	Rising on healing spirals; retaining aware of, yet not identified with the shadow; reincorporating the shadow into the personality results in a stronger, wider consciousness than before; the acknowledgement of the shadow remains a continuous lifelong process.

Written sources:
► en.Wikipedia entry Shadow (psychology)

Movie/DVD:
► Documentary The Shadow Effect Documentary, produced by Debbie Ford (1955-2013) US American coach, lecturer, self-help author,
seconded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (*1946) Indian US American physician, public speaker, self-help writer, Marianne Williamson (*1952)
US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, produced 26. June 2009, YouTube film, 1:10:32 duration,
posted 29. November 2017

Siehe auch: ► Befreiung von Großmutter und Rotkäppchen aus dem Wolfsbauch

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Transformation of a cynical old miser after a series of visitations

Ghost of Christmas
representing the Present
John Leech, painter, 1843

In the middle decades of the 19th century the English novelist Charles Dickens was keen-
ly touched by the appalling conditions of poor children working in tin mines. In a fundraising speech on 5 October 1843 at the Manchester Athenæum Dickens campaigned with workers and employers to donate for children's rights and educational and social reforms.

In December 1843 Dickens' published his novel A Christmas Carol. Its main character Ebenezer Scrooge said the infamous line scorning the holiday of love:

"Bah …Humbug."

He repeatedly turned down a couple of businessmen who were engaged to collect money from him for the poor at Christmas. Scrooge pointed out that the poor were undeserving of
any more than the prisons and workhouses provided at the time.

That same night Scrooge was visited by four entitities. The first ghost that appeared before him was his former colleague. The other three represented the archetypes of the past,
present and future.

༺·༺·༺ ♦◊♦ ༻·༻·༻

Marley's ghost, John Leech, 1843

༺Entity༻	Focus	Legend
1st Ghost	Ghost of Jacob Marley	Scrooge's late business partner, warned him of continuing in miserly ways. "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevo- lence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
2nd Ghost	Ghost of Christmas Past	He showed Scrooge how he used to be warm and generous and how he has changed into a cynical old man.
3rd Ghost	Ghost of Christmas Present	He showed Scrooge that most people in the homes of Bob Cratchit and Scrooge's nephew Fred toasted him affectionately. He explained to him how need and ignorance will destroy society if people do not learn to care for each other.
4th Ghost	Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come	He took Scrooge to a vision of how he will die.
Scrooge was a changed man after this last visitation. ♦◊♦ His meanness was dissolved. ♦◊♦

See also:
► Fourfold nature of the psyche and various fourfold constellations
► Cynicism and ► Archetypes and ► Dying and ► Taboo

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Encountering and integrating four layers of generational shadow – RHH ♦ Mother ♦ Grandmother ♦ Goddess

Four generations of shadow work displayed in Grimm's fairy tale Red Riding Hood

Round	Character	Generational status	Representing	Expression	⚡ Shadow·position Swallowed by the WOLF Domination system	Release position Rebirth from the beast's belly

One	Red·Riding·Hood	Daughter	Individual	Personal	Last to be swallowed	First to be re-born
Two [*]	Unnamed	RRH's Mother	Allies, cohorts, friends, colleagues, family, neighbors	Interpersonal	Second to be silenced, immobilized, in bystander mode	Second to emerge from apathy to alertness (whistle blowing)
Three	Unnamed	RRH's Grandmother	Community, world	Impersonal	First to be swallowed	Third to be re-born

Four [*]	Goddess	RRH's Great-grand- mother	Universe Otherworld Spirit realm	Trans- personal	First to be overthrown Hidden in, obscured by the shadow	Fourth to re-emerge

[*] The re-birth (reemergence) of the feminine aspect of the creator is at hand
in the huge transition that is currently unfolding on the world's stage.

Reference: ► FAIRY TALES by The Brothers Grimm, Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood],
presented by University of Pittsburgh, revised 3. March 2015

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Red Riding Hood

[The story of the fairy tale of] Little Red Riding Hood contains Satanic elements, the culture
of sacrifice. It [represents] the Reptilian command and control and indeed the Jewish culture.
Audio interview with Simon Parkes (*1960) British councillor, Illuminati insider, mind control experiencer, activist, counselor, March 19 2017 Simon Parkes Connecting Consciousness Q&A with Wolf Spirit Radio, PDF transcript, presented by
the dissolved Scottish media network Wolf Spirit Radio, program "Connecting Consciousness", host Jay Pee,
minute 1:10:57, 1:55:58 minutes duration, recorded and aired 19. March 2017

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Definition of the soul by ancient Egyptians

The Ancient Egyptians ascribed the following five parts to a human soul:

Ren – spirit
Ba – soul
Ib – heart
Sheut – shadow
Ka – personal name / identity

Including aakhu, khaibut, and khat
- Akh – 'the (magically) effective one', the mind / intellect in the living entity, associated with thought

The temporal human body was called

Ha [plural haw] – approximately the sum of bodily parts

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul

See also: ► Soul and ► Soul

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Media recommendations – Discerning shadow aspects and cultic features

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Myth

Audio/Video lecture series with Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion, Mythos (The Complete Series), DVD format, Acorn Media, 18. September 2012

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Learning discernment:

Cultic features and God complex

Mariana Caplan, Ph.D., US American professor of yogic and transpersonal psychologies, psychotherapist, author

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Fan – fanatic – fandom – fanaticism – fascination

Terms expressing unconscious charge: Fan ✣ fanatic ✣ fandom ✣ fanaticism ✣ fascination

༺༻	Term	Etymology – Legend	Time frame / Remark
1.	Fan Fandom Fan base	Derived from the Modern Latin fanaticus, meaning "insanely but divinely inspired." The word originally pertained to a temple or sacred place [Latin fanum, poetic English fane]. – Short for ⇒ "fanatic" The word "fan" was also created from the word "fancy". "Fancy" is essentially the same word as "fantasy", from the Greek "phantasia", which means “shading through appea- rance, opinion, enthusiasm for something" – and sometimes delusion. "Fandom" is a community of fans, who create their own subculture.	The modern sense of "extremely zealous" dates from around 1647.
2.	Fanatic	Person with a liking and enthusiasm for something "marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion." "Fanatics indulge in a heady, intoxicating and toxic concoction of self-affirming, know-it-all confidence that they have unique access to absolute truths."	The English word Fanatic exists since ~1550. Fanatic as a noun is common since1650.
3.	Fanaticism	"Fanaticism is a drug." "Affective commitment” and “extraordinary pursuit"; "The be- havior of a fan with overwhelming enthusiasm for a given subject is differentiated from the behavior of a fanatic by the fanatic's violation of prevailing social norms. Though the fan's behavior may be judged as odd or eccentric, it does not violate such norms."	Four types of fanaticism: 1) rewarding, 2) destructive, 3) stigmatized, 4) rogue
4.	Fascination	From the Latin fascinatio, meaning a) "Incantation", magic, sorcery, enchantment ⇒ being under a spell, mesmerized, (supernaturally) drawn towards that what both attracts and repells b) "Interest/attention of an individual towards a specific field, work or any passion"	From the Latin fascinare meaning tying, binding, insuing unhealthy attachment

Written references:
► Article Exploring Consumer Fanaticism: A Fresh Perspective On The Concept Of Loyalty, presented by the social networking site for
scientists and researchers ResearchGate, January 2005
► Blog article Fanaticism Is a Disease Like Alcoholism, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today,
Jeremy E Sherman Ph.D., biophilosopher, social science researcher, 4. November 2014
► Article The beginning of the fan movement: brief history of the first fandoms, presented by the publication MedKult, 8. March 2016
► Blog article by Joshua Leland, "Fascinating": Towards the Deeper Meaning of Words, presented by Circle Institute, 17. April 2017

Siehe auch: ► Fan – Fanatisch – Fangemeinde – Fanatismus – Faszination

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Fanaticism

Three stages of studentship

༺༻	Studentship stage	Legend	Ideal group·ratio
1.	Beginner	Filled with beginner's mind and innocence, new students may ask the questions longterm students would not think of raising or dare asking. By default, they are infusing the system with "fresh blood."	10-15%
2.	Intermediary	Figuratively spoken, the "pollywog" students are in their teens – meaning "trouble". Teens are prone to fascination, infatuation, the quick & dirty approach, and fandom.	75-80%
3.	Advanced	Like much older siblings, matured students had years (10.000 hours of practice) to digest the teachings and may have learned the art to differentiate the spirits. Not throwing wrenches into the flow or drawing attention their way, they naturally gravitate to holding the space and supporting the group process quietly.	10%
Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18, 3 (NT)
Siehe auch: ► Students

Present-day people are mostly unaware of the meaning and the contemporary charge of certain words they use. Life experiences may sensitize one to pay more close attention to language and languaging.

In stardom and fandom – lies glamor. A star on stage may greet all his "fans" in the audience. A star most likely prefers involved fans, whereas a sincere teacher may prefer a spiritually aligned audience, committed listeners.

Former cult members or followers may object words like "following", "fandom", "fascination", not minding terms like "intensity", "aligned intention", and "sincere studentship."

Traumatized people need to be asked – diligently and straightly – to come out of paralysis. Their programmed inner code forbids them to speak and reveal on their own. One has to name the taboo for them, which allows them to nod. Most people shy away from entering the forbidden TABOO land that is filled with explosive tread mines.

Infantile fascination and dependence on guru personalities
Most frequently, however, this fascination leads to an infantile giving up oneself and being so to speak flat on one's belly before the other person worshipping the great leader or the great spiritual guru or whatever the projection is and loosing oneself in an infantile way. Remaining infantile, such people are generally very fanatical in the admiration of that admired person, defending that person against the enemies and basking in the glory of their master, admired person, through identification. That saves these people from making an effort themselves. The great man or the great woman out there is going to do it all for me. And my task is to only applaud and admire the thing. I have to make no effort to become more intelligent or more wise or more independent myself. It can just annihilate the personality and make them infantile instead of making them grow up and develop them.
Deleted video documentary / interview with Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Swiss Jungian psychologist, Jungian scholar, author, The Way of the Dream, presented by the Windrose Film, host Fraser Boa, introduction by Marion Woodman (1928-2018), 1983, The Way of the Dream, part 1 of a series of 4, YouTube film, minute 1:42:28, 3:04:58 hours duration, posted by JP Opperman 24. November 2011

Ultimately […] repressed doubts may lead to the overcompensation of fanaticism.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author,
Gerhard Adler, translator,‎ R.F.C. Hull, editor, H. G. Baynes, translator, Psychological Types. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6, S. 342-354, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition 1971, 1. October 1976

The ideological fanaticism displayed by communists is compared to religious fanaticism, and in fact, is seen as
a substitute for religious faith. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, translator,‎ R. F. C. Hull, translator, Civilization in Transition – Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 10, 1928, S. 263-268, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2nd edition 1. August 1970

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the 'opium of the masses' – cannot hear the music of the spheres.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921, excerpted from a letter, cited in: Walter Isaacson (*1952) US American president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, journalist, biographer, writer, Einstein. His Life and Universe, Simon & Schuster, New York, April 2007

Things are not what they seem; nor are they otherwise. Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, prominent Mahayana Buddhist sūtra

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary, S. 101, Harvest House, New York, 1943, Horizon Press, revised/enlarged edition 1. January 1951, Doubleday, 1. October 1983, 4. May 2005; falsely attributed to Winston Churchill, cited in: Quoteinvestigator

Pro-fan-ity is the attempt of a lazy and feeble mind to express itself FORCEfully. US American expression

In most cases narcissists are tied with [supplied by] co-narcissists who [regrettably] get a kick out of fandom, are turned on when they can venerate someone. By means of having found someone who they consider adorable, they themselves regain a feeling of stabilization. Video interview with Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) German psychiatrist, clinical psychoanalyst, author, Interview mit dem Psychoanalytiker Hans-Joachim Maaz, presented by the initiative Berufung Mami, host Jeniffer (*1979) mothering activist, blogger, YouTube film, minute 54:31, 1:09:55 duration, posted 23. February 2019

Fanaticism always means overcompensated doubt. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder
of a new school of depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, Aniela Jaffe, editor, Letters of C. G. Jung. Volume II, 1951-1961,
S. 31, Princeton University Press, 1. April 1976, Routledge, reissued edition 20. May 1976

Fanaticism is always a compensation for hidden doubt. Religious persecutions occur only where heresy is a menace. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R.F.C. Hull, translator, Collected Works of C.G. Jung Volume 17 – The Development of Personality, S. 81, Princeton University Press,
reprint edition 1. October 1981

See also:
► Building conscience and ► Differentiating sheep from sheepdogs and wolves
► Students and ► Taboo and ► Maturity

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The scorpion and the frog

A scorpion and a frog are sitting on the bank of a river, and both need to get to the other side.

Asian forest scorpion, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

"Hello, Mr. Frog!" calls the scorpion through the reeds. "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the water? I have impor-
tant business to conduct on the other side. And I cannot swim in such a strong current."

The frog immediately becomes suspicious.

"Well, Mr. Scorpion," he replies, "I appreciate the fact that you have im-
portant business to conduct on the other side of the river. But just take
a moment to consider your request. You are a scorpion. You have a
large stinger at the end of your tail. As soon as I let you onto my back,
it is entirely within your nature to sting me."

The scorpion, who has anticipated the frog’s objections, counters thus:

"My dear Mr. Frog, your reservations are perfectly reasonable. But it is clearly not in my interest to sting you. I really do need to get to the other side of the river. And I give you my word that no harm will come to you."

The frog agrees, reluctantly, that the scorpion has a point. So he allows the fast-talking arthropod to scramble atop his back and hops, without further ado, into
the water.
At first all is well. Everything goes exactly according to plan. But halfway across, the frog suddenly feels a sharp pain in his back – and sees, out of the corner of
his eye, the scorpion withdraw his stinger from his hide. A deadening numbness begins to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaks the frog. "You said you needed to get to the other side
to conduct your business. Now we are both going to die!"

The scorpion shrugs and does a little jig on the drowning frog’s back.

"Mr. Frog," he replies casually, "you said it yourself. I am a scorpion.
It is in my nature to sting you."

With that, the scorpion and the frog both disappear beneath the murky, muddy waters of the swiftly flowing current. And neither of them is seen again.

Source: ► ⚡ Kevin Dutton, Ph.D. (*1967) British professor of experimental psychology, expert on the science of social influence, University
of Oxford, author, The Wisdom of Psychopaths. What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, chapter 1 "Scorpio Rising",
William Heinemann, 20. September 2012; Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint edition 3. September 2013

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Animal fable of The Scorpion and the Frog (~1950)

Referenz: de.Wikipedia-Eintrag ► Die Fabel vom Skorpion und der Frosch (~1950)

See also: ► Narcissism and ► Stories

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Reactions to encountering the seventh vault of the seventh heaven

One night four rabbinim were visited by an angel who awakened them and carried them to
the Seventh Vault of the Seventh Heaven. There they beheld the Sacred Wheel of Ezekiel.

༺༻	Response·/·Behavior	Legend
1.	Madness	Somewhere in the descent from Paradise to Earth, one Rabbi, having seen such splendor, lost his mind and wandered frothing and foaming until the end of his days.
2.	Denial	The second Rabbi turned out extremely cynical.	"Oh I just dreamed of Ezekiel's Wheel, that was all. Nothing really happened."
3.	Fanaticism	The third Rabbi carried on and on about what he had seen, for he was totally obsessed. [...] He lectured and would not stop with how it was all constructed and what it all meant. [...] And this way he went astray and betrayed his faith.

4.	Heartfilled poetry	The fourth Rabbi, who was a poet, took a paper in hand and a reed and sat near the window writing song after song praising the evening dove, his daughter and her cradle and all the stars in the sky. And he lived his life better than before.	Comment: He was the only one of the four heavenly visitors who had seen God (had an epiphany) and was able to bear this grace in a dignified manner.

Source: ► Clarissa Pinkola Estés (*1945) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, poet, writer,
Women Who Run With the Wolves. Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype,
Ballantine Books, 1st edition November 1992, updated with new material 1996

See also: ► Grateful poet and ► Stories and ► Circles and ► Grace and ► God and ► Madness
► Cults and ► Dignity and ► Cynicism and ► Gratefulness and ► Heart and ► Poems

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Taking wings – from caterpillarness to butterflyness

Collective shadows and their remedies

༺༻	Collective shadow Hungry heavy caterpillar on the earth	Dis-solution / Transmutation Beautiful light butterflies in the air	Temperament	Transformational stage
1.	Greed-lack, hoarding, poverty	Sharing	Phlegmatic	Caterpillar in the egg
2.	Rankism, "The Other", humiliation (sexism, racism)	Dignity	Sanguin	Caterpillar crawling the earth
3.	Violence, destruction, bullying	Empathy	Choleric	Caterpillar in the chrysalis

4.	Despair, depression, suicide-terrorism	Flex-flow, peace	Melancholic	Butterfly in the air

Literature:
► Dr. Sharif Abdullah [Sherwood James Sanders] (*1951) US American attorney, academic, advocate for social-cultural-spiritual
transformation, writer, Creating a World That Works for All, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, paperback, 1st edition 1. May 1999

Inspirational video: ► The emergence of the butterfly: Ideopsis similis, YouTube film, 5:40 minutes duration, posted 23. July 2007

See also: ► Paradigm shift ► Solution ► Dignity ► Empathy ► Humiliation ► Violence ► Depression ► Greed

"Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts it will need as a mature butterfly or moth – discs for its eyes, for its wings, its legs and so on. In some species, these imaginal discs]] remain dormant throughout the caterpillar's life; in other species, the discs begin to take the shape of adult body parts even before the caterpillar forms a chrysalis or cocoon. Some caterpillars walk around with tiny rudi-
mentary wings tucked inside their bodies, though you would never know it by looking at them."
Article How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly?, presented by the US American popular science magazine Scientific American, Ferris Jabr, 10. August 2012
To become a butterfly, a caterpillar first digests itself. Yet certain groups of cells survive, turning the soup into eyes, wings, antennae and other adult structures. Transition may involve dissolution of part or the whole structure. Caterpillars actually liquify in the cocoon before they are transformed into a butterfly.

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Links zum Thema pschologischer Schatten / Shadow

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Literatur

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Schweizer Psychiater, Psychoanalytiker, Gründer einer neuen Denkschule der analytischen Tiefenpsychologe, Autor, Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewußten, Otto Reichl, 1928

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Literature (engl.)

Robert Bly (1926-2021) US American activist, leader of the Mythopoetic men's movement, poet, author, A Little Book on the Human Shadow, 1986, HarperOne, 22. June 1988
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., US American Jungian-oriented therapist, nondenominational minister, bestselling author (editor), Jeremiah Abrams, US American psychotherapist (editor), Meeting the Shadow. The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Tarcher, 1st edition 1. April 1991
Robert A. Johnson (1921-2018) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, Owning Your Own Shadow. Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Harper Collins, San Francisco, reprint edition 5. March 1993
Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Swiss Jungian psychologist, Jungian scholar, author, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales,
A C.G. Jung Foundation Book, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, revised edition 7. February 1995
Alan Briskin, Ph.D. (*1954) US American co-founder of the "Collective Wisdom Initiative", consultant, artist, researcher, author, The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1. January 1998
Deepak Chopra, M.D. (*1946) Indian US American physician, endocrinologist, public speaker, Harvard lecturer, self-help writer
on mind-body medicine, Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, Debbie Ford, The Shadow Effect. Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self, HarperOne, reprint edition 3. May 2011
Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Swiss Jungian psychologist, Jungian scholar, author, Individuation in Fairy Tales,
C. G. Jung Foundation Books, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, revised edition 27. November 2001
Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., US American life coach, radio host, author, Dark Gold. The Human Shadow And The Global Crisis,
Next Revelation Press, reprint edition 1. June 2016

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Wikipedia-Einträge Schatten (Archetyp)

Beitrag Wie funktioniert "Schattenarbeit" nach C. G. Jung?, präsentiert von der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 279 Aufrufe · 6 Likes, 11. Oktober 2019
Beitrag Was ist für Dich fanatisch?, präsentiert von der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 266 Aufrufe · 4 Likes, 13. November 2019

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Audio-Podcast [Artikel] Von Schatten und Dämonen Video, präsentiert von der Schweizer Publikation Chnopfloch, 49:14 Minuten Dauer, 14. Julli 2023

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Audio and video links (engl.)

Video interview with Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D. (*1942) US American psychologist, author, The Shadow, presented by Touchstones of the Sacred, founder and host Celedra Gildea, Ph.D., US American psychotherapist, YouTube film, 2:59 minutes duration, posted 16. November 2010
Video interview with Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998) Swiss Jungian psychologist, Jungian scholar, author, The shadow, YouTube film, 8:50 minutes duration, posted 19. August 2011
Video interview with Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author and Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Andrew Harvey: The Shadow Course, Part 1, presented by the US American multi-
media publishing company Sounds True, Insights at the Edge, host Tami Simon (*1953) US American founder and director of Sounds True, 1:06:00 duration, posted 8. August 2017
Video interview with James P. Driscoll, Ph.D., foremost US American critic of Renaissance literature from a Jungian perspective, author, Satan, Lucifer, and the Jungian Shadow, presented by the US American New Thinking Allowed TV, host Jeffrey Mish-
love, Ph.D. (*1946) US American clinical psychologist, director of the Intuition Network, radio and television interviewer, author, YouTube film, 45:50 minutes duration, posted 15. April 2019
Video interview with James Hollis, Ph.D. (*1940) US American licensed Jungian psychoanalyst, professor of Jungian Studies, Saybrook University, author, Shadowplay: Path of the Wounded Healer w/ James Hollis, presented by the YouTube channel
The Stoa, host Alyssa Polizzi, host Arran Rogerson, YouTube film, 59:21 minutes duration, posted 12. February 2021

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Documentary The Shadow Effect Documentary, produced by Debbie Ford (1955-2013) US American coach, lecturer,
self-help author, seconded by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (*1946) Indian US American physician, public speaker, self-help writer, Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, produced
26. June 2009, YouTube film, 1:10:32 duration, posted 29. November 2017

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Englisch Wiki

Hawkins

¹ Turning a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in a fellow human; rankism, 'us vs. them' syndrome, racism, persecution of 'non-believers' ⇑

² Rankism, 'us vs. them' syndrome, racism, persecution of 'non-believers' ⇑

³ Individuation expressed in the New Testament as 'You shall have life and shall have it more abundantly.' Being 'born again' via baptism represents the first step of individuation. ⇑

⁴ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, travel writer, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Longmans, Green & Company, United Kingdom, 5 January 1886 ⇑

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