18-09-2009, 11:28 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Carsten, my friend - Jane Ryder.
And, oh yeah, the uber Exorcist Malachi Martin.
How strange to see his spectre gliding along these strange nooks and crannies, where old and new don masks and frenziedly copulate....
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A load of horse?
Indeed Jan. Jane Ryder called me after Gunther had shacked up with her in the West Country to ask me to check out for her a psychoactive drug that Gunther had been taking/or was forced to take (can't remember which). I couldn't identify it, although I tried, but the name of the drug was certainly of the psychoactive category.
I always wondered about Malachai Martin and his curious tumble down the stairs of his apartment that led to his death. There was a lot of suspicion that this was murder and not an accident at the time. His novel Windswept House is in the mould of Dennis Wheatley and is chillingly realistic in parts, based as it was (he claimed anyway - his native blarney?) upon actual character and some events he knew and witnessed during him time at the Vatican.
But I'd be more than interested on your take on Martin and Jane - the odd couple.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14