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C.G. Jung: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

  Ivan Iavazovsky: The Creation of the World      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. The later procedure, however,…

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The Shadow… Good and Evil… Consciousness

    “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.”  …

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C.G. Jung: “Everyone carries a shadow….”

  Alexander-Louis Laloir: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1865   Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an…

Jung defines his concept of the shadow
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Jung defines his concept of the shadow

  Carl Jung: On the Shadow   I have tried, in this book, to elucidate and amplify the various aspects of the archetype which it is most important for modern man to understand— namely, the archetype of the self. By way of introduction, I described those concepts and archetypes which manifest themselves in the course…

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Jung, on Emotions and the Shadow

    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, and…

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C.G. Jung: “There is no birth of consciousness without pain.”

  Marriage, Pain and Consciousness . Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises. There is no birth of consciousness without pain. The ways that lead to conscious realization are many, but they follow definite laws. In general, the change begins with the onset of the second half…