These are great quotes (and I like the alchemical 13 in number). They actually help me maintain my resolve, this is such difficult work as I am sure you know. Thanks.
(PS I have pinched one of the quotes for my blog)
Does Jung provide a discussion or a systematic approach to the shadow journey?
Can you refer to a summary of the path to integration?
I read much in my younger days, however, time and travels have taken their toll. These collected quotations are good reference/reminders, still, too much gets away from me . . . .
when i was a young man i used to take a lot of drugs. One night (about 20 odd years ago) i ingested a particularly strong dose of LSD. the resultant trip was a heavy one .one in which i came into contact with my shadow ( an ecstatic vision of myself as a Victorian villain type bent double black n cancerous all the repressed swill made manifest ) i was very frightened n horrified by what it revealed it was a tipping point in my life. my many dissatisfactions could no longer be convincingly projected onto the outside cos “its me that’s rotten after all” . my previous modes of dealing with things , my transcendant functions if you like, such as playing music slowly started to flake away leaving nothing other than a raw slag heap of pain n confusion. i sought an out in heroin.
i stuck with it (heroin) through my mid twenties to late 30s when i finally got clean. i read a biography on Carl Jung by Colin Wilson about seven years ago in which he quoted Jungs story about his own confrontation with his shadow… the hairs on the back of my neck rose in revelatory shivers. pure epiphany…i know hes still there n very powerful but ( through writing,drawing playing music…art basically) i can acknowledge him
and utilize his energy n drive in a way that i had no notion of Pre-Jung… o
The first time I saw the Phantoms Paradise, Paul Williams….the song “the phantoms theme” (all this is similar to phantom of the opera… beauty and the beast… Faust) reminds me of Carl Jung and the shadow self. Love this song… beautifully describes the only authentic true way out… in.
Verse 1]
Half asleep I hear a voice
Is it only in my mind
Or is it someone calling me
Someone I failed and left behind
[Chorus]
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I’ve been
All the devils that disturbed me
And the angels that defeated them somehow
Come together in me now
[Verse 2]
Face to face I greet the cast
Set in silence we begin
Companions in an empty room
I taste their victory and sin
[Chorus]
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I’ve been
All the devils that disturbed me
And the angels that defeated them somehow
Come together in me now
These are great quotes (and I like the alchemical 13 in number). They actually help me maintain my resolve, this is such difficult work as I am sure you know. Thanks.
(PS I have pinched one of the quotes for my blog)
Does Jung provide a discussion or a systematic approach to the shadow journey?
Can you refer to a summary of the path to integration?
I read much in my younger days, however, time and travels have taken their toll. These collected quotations are good reference/reminders, still, too much gets away from me . . . .
So grateful if you can help.
– – – R.
when i was a young man i used to take a lot of drugs. One night (about 20 odd years ago) i ingested a particularly strong dose of LSD. the resultant trip was a heavy one .one in which i came into contact with my shadow ( an ecstatic vision of myself as a Victorian villain type bent double black n cancerous all the repressed swill made manifest ) i was very frightened n horrified by what it revealed it was a tipping point in my life. my many dissatisfactions could no longer be convincingly projected onto the outside cos “its me that’s rotten after all” . my previous modes of dealing with things , my transcendant functions if you like, such as playing music slowly started to flake away leaving nothing other than a raw slag heap of pain n confusion. i sought an out in heroin.
i stuck with it (heroin) through my mid twenties to late 30s when i finally got clean. i read a biography on Carl Jung by Colin Wilson about seven years ago in which he quoted Jungs story about his own confrontation with his shadow… the hairs on the back of my neck rose in revelatory shivers. pure epiphany…i know hes still there n very powerful but ( through writing,drawing playing music…art basically) i can acknowledge him
and utilize his energy n drive in a way that i had no notion of Pre-Jung… o
The first time I saw the Phantoms Paradise, Paul Williams….the song “the phantoms theme” (all this is similar to phantom of the opera… beauty and the beast… Faust) reminds me of Carl Jung and the shadow self. Love this song… beautifully describes the only authentic true way out… in.
Verse 1]
Half asleep I hear a voice
Is it only in my mind
Or is it someone calling me
Someone I failed and left behind
[Chorus]
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I’ve been
All the devils that disturbed me
And the angels that defeated them somehow
Come together in me now
[Verse 2]
Face to face I greet the cast
Set in silence we begin
Companions in an empty room
I taste their victory and sin
[Chorus]
To work it out I let them in
All the good guys and the bad guys that I’ve been
All the devils that disturbed me
And the angels that defeated them somehow
Come together in me now
Great selection, thank you