17-02-2009, 12:10 PM
Kate Story Wrote:Right again! Just the same way as there is no profit in cures for serious illness. All the big money comes from useless treatments and medications. The medical world now kills more people than accidents.
Aarrgghhh! Careful Kate or I'll be riding my hobby-horse at full gallop. This is a favourite peeve of mine and I can't tell you how angry I get about it. Such cynicism in the big pharma corporations -- spreading suffering under the pretense of helping solely in order to generate revenue.
There is always a cure on the horizon, but it never arrives does 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