19-11-2010, 01:40 PM
Careful Peter, as you know there are numerous right-wing zealot groups in the RC Church and they sometimes stoop to means that are rather unpleasant ---- night visits by unknown persons leaving gifts - dead pigs head, firebombs, lengths of rope for hanging etc. And the police will ignore it.
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