C.G. Jung: “House of the Gathering”
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts.
He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against.
He lives in the “House of the Gathering.”
Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.
He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.
Collected Words 11
“Psychology and Religion” (1938).
P.140
I’m curious about this “House of the Gathering”. I believe it can sometimes be too much a burden for a human being.
I would this this burden is part of the human journey that itself has to be accepted.
Absolutely necessary, though many do not venture this far