YOUTUBE: Carl Jung's Philosophy of The Shadow

Jungian shadow work

YOUTUBE: Empaths You Need to Know This to Heal pt. 2

Jungian Shadow Work

I posted Part 1 of this, and forgot about Part 2! 

While she's coming at this healing from a New Age, earth-centric perspective,  she is very accurate in regards to understanding empaths.  Sadly, Christianity has no language for they type of resonant energy she's talking about, except for vague, loosely defined concepts of "love", but it makes more sense to talk about energy in regards to human relationships and interactions for various reasons, but most importantly we all have a greater intuitive understanding of energy, especially our own lack or surplus of energy, than we do of love.   It's sad, but true.

Her two talks, about 30 minutes total, is more valuable than a year's worth of Sunday sermons.  However, there is of course one glaring mistake:  humans cannot tap into themselves in terms of finding a source of goodness, love and abundance.  That source is external, not internal, and to truly be a force of love and goodness, one must follow the wisdom of Western Civilization, and tap into the ultimate source of all these things: God himself.   God = Love.   But, other than that, she's spot on in most of her diagnosis and understanding. 

ARTICLE: Essential Secrets of Psychotherapy: What is the "Shadow"?

"The shadow, said celebrated Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung (see my prior post on A Dangerous Method), is the unknown ‘‘dark side’’ of our personality–-dark both because it tends to consist predominantly of the primitive, negative, socially or religiously depreciated human emotions and impulses like sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger or rage, and due to its unenlightened nature, completely obscured from consciousness. (See my prior posts on anger and greed.) Whatever we deem evil, inferior or unacceptable and deny in ourselves becomes part of the shadow, the counterpoint to what Jung called the persona or conscious ego personality. According to Jungian analyst Aniela Jaffe, the shadow is the ‘‘sum of all personal and collective psychic elements which, because of their incompatibility with the chosen conscious attitude, are denied expression in life’’ (cited in Diamond, p. 96). Indeed, Jung differentiated between the personal shadow and the impersonal or archetypal shadow, which acknowledges transpersonal, pure or radical evil (symbolized by the Devil and demons) and collective evil, exemplified by the horror of the Nazi holocaust. Literary and historical figures like Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and Darth Vader personify the shadow embodied in its most negative archetypal human form."

Read the full article here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evil-deeds/201204/essential-secrets-psychotherapy-what-is-the-shadow

How to integrate your shadow - Jordan Peterson

Jungian shadow work.

"The meek shall inherit the earth."

"Disguising cowardice as morality."

Carl Jung and the Shadow: Integrating the Hidden Power of Your Dark Side

"The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal...When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our lives—despite an adequate ego development—we must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposal." (Edward Whitmont)

'Mysticism, Spirit and the Shadow' - Jordan Peterson Interview, Part 1

The first part of Rebel Wisdom's exclusive interview with psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson - where he talks in depth about his understanding of mysticism, religion and the challenge of integrating the shadow.