Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961

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 latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies, par.335, pg 265 –Carl Jung rr23aee

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