Jung on the Shadow: Making the darkness conscious

(from The Red Book)

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

 

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.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

 

  Collected Works 13

Alchemical Studies

“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). 

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