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Shifting through shadows on an uneven playing field can be as treacherous walking on thin ice, but falling into sea or sky or both simultaneously is where we let go and learn to fly.
Tripping this morning on my shadow, I had to remind myself of Jungian mantras. No one is as good or bad as they think they are, for sure, but in this shadow work game, Jung doesn’t address ‘the good.’ The good comes easy, and too often is the only thing we recognize. We do want people to see our good. We all want it to mean the world, and we would like our shadow to be diminished more than its actual impact. Is there a way to stay reasonably balanced in this game of life?
Mind you, this video was captured long ago, well over 40 years ago, and still, the average person knows less about themself today than they did a hundred years ago. “We are pitifully unaware of it,” Jung went on to say. ‘It’ being our nature.
In science it is said we know more about space than the depths of our oceans. In psychology, it is said we know more about the depths of the ocean than we know our own psyches.
‘To thine own self be true,’ as Shakespeare recommends through the voice of Hamlet, requires that you actually…
