The Shadow: The MECHANICS of Your DARK SIDE (REMASTERED)

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. - Carl Jung

Shadow work is hard, therefore, the process of assimilation requires one to ask oneself some challenging questions.

In today's video, I endeavor to answer these questions.

Chapters:

Prologue - 00:00
Carl Jung and the shadow - 00:42
How often do you question the nature of your reality? - 05:48
How do you orient yourself towards what is morally good? - 07:40
How do you offer clarity to every facet of your existence? - 09:29
In Closing - 11:18

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[metamorphosis_]

The shadow can look big or it can look small, depending on the angle from which the light caresses you. What is the size of your shadow?

[michaelbyfield]

I think this video is the best description of Carl Jungs Shadow I have watched. Very good. Thoughtful and beautifully narrated.

[frialsharefabdo]

Thank you 💚🙏
" There's no coming to consciousness without pain ."
" Who looks outside, dreams ; who looks inside, awakes ."
~ Carl Jung

[novusnox]

Find Gold Within The Shadow.
Everything unconscious is what the shadow is.

Simple example:
It will contain anger if there is no healthy outlet for it and are overly compassionate in an unhealthy way.
Or compassion if all you are is anger consciously.
Yin & yang.

I enjoy these videos keep up the great work
💪

[nightlite]

let us all have faith in humanity and the world beyond! let consciousness be your friend!

Great video man, I love your work

[MamaMac_]

You have a way of taking the complex, stripping it to its essence; and serving it up in beautiful simplicity. ❤️

[michaelmccormack]

Great observation on life. This helps us to see that all shadows are born out of light and it is ourselves that stand in between/block the truth by the illusion. I can see why Jung never called it the dark work, because there is always light directly in front of us.🙏💜

[anabanana]

Carl Jung is also one of my favorites:) This January marks a year that I’ve been discovering the gold in my shadow with my Jungian therapist. It feels great to embrace what I’ve been afraid of and running from for years. Sending much love! 💛

[davidhunt]

*_The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely._*
~ Carl Jung

*_As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible._*
~ Carl Jung

*_Neurosis_*_ is always a _*_substitute_*_ for legitimate _*_suffering._*
~ Carl Jung

*_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._*
~ Carl Jung; The Philosophical Tree; CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335

*_People don't have ideas. Ideas have people._*
~ Carl Jung

_A man who has not passed through the _*_inferno_*_ of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the _*_sole purpose_*_ of human existence is to kindle a _*_light_*_ in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of _*_ourselves._*
~ Carl Jung

_Your _*_visions_*_ will become _*_clear_*_ only when you can look into your own _*_heart._*_ Who looks outside, _*_dreams;_*_ who looks inside, _*_awakes._*
~ Carl Jung

_The privilege of a lifetime is to become who _*_you truly are._*
~ Carl Jung

_We cannot change _*_anything_*_ until we _*_accept_*_ it. Condemnation does not liberate, it _*_oppresses._*
~ Carl Jung

*_Thinking_*_ is difficult, .. that's why most people _*_judge._*
~ Carl Jung

_The _*_greatest_*_ and most important problems of life are all fundamentally _*_insoluble._*_ They can never be solved but only _*_outgrown._*
~ Carl Jung

_Man needs _*_difficulties;_*_ they are necessary for _*_health._*
~ Carl Jung

_Until you make the unconscious _*_conscious, _*_ it will _*_direct_*_ your life and you will call it _*_fate._*
~ Carl Jung

_Nothing has a stronger _*_influence_*_ psychologically on their environment, and especially on their _*_children, _*_ than the _*_unlived life_*_ of the _*_parent._*
~ Carl Jung

*_Dreams_*_ are the guiding words of the _*_soul._*_ Why should I henceforth not _*_love_*_ my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my _*_daily consideration?_*
~ Carl Jung

_The meeting of _*_two personalities_*_ is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are _*_transformed._*
~ Carl Jung

_Show me a _*_sane man_*_ and I will _*_cure_*_ him for you._
~ Carl Jung

_The _*_debt_*_ we owe to the play of _*_imagination_*_ is _*_incalculable._*
~ Carl Jung

_The most _*_intense conflicts, _*_ if overcome, leave behind a sense of _*_security_*_ and _*_calm_*_ that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce _*_valuable_*_ and _*_lasting results._*
~ Carl Jung

_Every form of _*_addiction_*_ is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or _*_idealism._*
~ Carl Jung

_Shrinking away from _*_death_*_ is something unhealthy and _*_abnormal_*_ which _*_robs_*_ the second half of life of it's _*_purpose._*
~ Carl Jung

_Where _*_love rules, _*_ there is no will to power, and where _*_power_*_ predominates, love is lacking. The one is the _*_shadow_*_ of the other._
~ Carl Jung

*_Understanding_*_ does not cure _*_evil, _*_ but it is a definite _*_help, _*_ inasmuch as one can cope with a _*_comprehensible darkness._*
~ Carl Jung

_There is no coming to _*_consciousness_*_ without _*_pain._*
~ Carl Jung

_Even a _*_happy life_*_ cannot be without a measure of _*_darkness, _*_ and the word 'happy' would lose it's meaning if it were not balanced by _*_sadness._*
~ Carl Jung

*_Knowledge_*_ rests not upon truth alone, but upon _*_error_*_ also._
~ Carl Jung

"_There is no coming to *consciousness* without *pain.*_ People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
~ Carl Jung

*_The State takes the place of God...and State slavery is a form of worship...The State, like the Church, demands enthusiasm, self-sacrifice, and love, and if religion requires or presupposes the 'fear of God, ' then the State takes good care to provide the necessary terror._*
~ Carl Jung, _The Undiscovered Self_

*_The increasing dependence on the State is anything but a healthy symptom; it means that the whole nation is in a fair way to becoming a herd of sheep, constantly relying on a shepherd to drive them into good pastures. The shepherd's staff soon becomes a rod of iron, and the shepherds turn into wolves... Any man who still possesses the instinct of self preservation knows perfectly well that only a swindler would offer to relieve him of responsibility, for surely no one in his senses would dream of taking responsibility for the existence of another. The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition._*
~ Carl Jung, CW 10, Para 413, _Civilization in Transition_

*_On the contrary, when I began my career as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, I was completely ignorant of Chinese philosophy, and only later did my professional experience show me that in my technique I had been unconsciously following that secret way which for centuries had been the preoccupation of the best minds of the East._*
~ Carl Jung, CW 13, Para 10

*_The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and it's sufferers, but also it's makers. We make our own epoch._*
~ Carl Jung, _The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man_

[benhudson]

Man love your work! What an intuitive, concise, and embodied critique, big shadow and bright bright, would love to hear your contemplations regarding 'the underworld' or the collective unconscious

[inFiniteTraCer]

I dig the delivery and the imagery. And of course the actual content. Well done!

[nicholasmejia]

This was an amazing video. You deserve more views

[AppalachianAlchemy]

Thanks for sharing!
Funny how we SEE these things ( this video) after we’ve awakened and understand duality. This is all new to me! Profound and empowering!

[dlloydy]

Brilliant work Adrian. Creative content with a real knack for making the concepts understandable. Thank you.

[andresteiner]

Very cool path you took on this video thanks

[florencia]

Great content! I bought the Red Book because of your latests videos. I've only read Jung's The Unconscious (1938) which I found at a local antique books store. It was a sale because it is such an old copy, but I felt dragged, gut-punched, called out, nourished, cleansed and de-traumatised after reading it. People pay tons of money to shrinks for years to get what I got for a few pesos. It's one of my precious posessions It all comes down to duality, doesn't it? Being aware of it, fighting it, keeping it in check, and finally accepting it.

[nycwlr]

Shout out for the late great Carl Jung!

[retteketette]

Powerful one, thinking about buying the red book.

[jonathangrosario]

Another masterpiece! Fantastic work. 👏

[MamaMac_]

I would love to see you explore the concept of the collective shadow. 🙏🏼