Shadow in the Dark (SI Book 3)

Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche

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May 30, Metta rated it really liked it. One of Johnson's short booklets on some of the key issues of life, in a jungian perspective. The last chapter entitled "The Mandorla" is such a gateway, a glimpse of the power in a symbolic act, where art - actio "To stay loyal to paradox is to earn the right to unity.

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The last chapter entitled "The Mandorla" is such a gateway, a glimpse of the power in a symbolic act, where art - action - symbol - psyche - poetry are united. Conflict to paradox to revelation: People come to the consulting room and lay out a collision of values with great embarrassment and agony. They want resolution but would have something even greater if they could ask for consciousness to bear the paradox. Jung once said, "Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next. This is for the brave and one does not easily find a moral or ethical nature strong enough for the process.

Heroism could be redefined for our time as the ability to stand paradox. So, in practicality, what do you do? Just to ask the question takes you off center, for it makes you choose between doing and being. Paradox is brought to its next stage of development by a highly conscious waiting. To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly where we feel we can proceed no further.

THis is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self. May 30, Anima rated it really liked it. It becomes clear that culture is an artificially imposed structure, but an absolutely necessary one. The word religion means to re-relate, to put back together again, to heal the wounds of separation. It is absolutely necessary to engage in the cultural process to redeem ourselves from our animal state; it is equally necessary to accomplish the spiritual task of putting our fractured, alienated world back together again.

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May 27, Mary Overton added it. We need to connect with this dark side for our own development, and we have no business flinging it at others, trying to palm off these awkward and unwanted feelings. The difficulty is that most of loc. The difficulty is that most of us live in an intricate web of shadow exchange that robs both parties of their potential wholeness.

The shadow also contains a good deal of energy, and it is the cornerstone of our vitality. A very cultured individual with an equally strong shadow has a great deal of personal power. William Blake spoke about the need to reconcile these two parts of the self. He said we should go to heaven for form and to hell for energy - and marry the two. When we can face our inner heaven and our inner hell, this is the highest form of creativity.

The explosion of energy at the meeting is extreme. Yet they persevere and their long, vivid story is our best instruction in the reception of ego and shadow. Everything that interferes with it must be repressed. Often these are basically positive qualities. Jun 29, Nikki rated it it was amazing Shelves: Another short and fantastic read on the ideas of the shadow and its related elements.

Johnson's text is extremely accessible, and goes into a well-rounded understanding of the shadow, examining both the negative and positive aspects we bury into our shadow. He discusses where we are at in culture right now, and Another short and fantastic read on the ideas of the shadow and its related elements. He discusses where we are at in culture right now, and how the collective shadow can certainly be destructive; if we all do our inner work though, as he quotes Jung, we aren't doomed. I enjoyed this book on many levels. It further enriched and deepened my understanding of the shadow, which is preparing me for writing my Jungian Psych paper.

It touched on ideas of the wounded healer, which I will set aside for my possible future dissertation topic. And it discussed embracing opposites and accepting paradoxes, something I am personally interested in. Actually, a lot of what he discussed, including the shadow in marriage, resonated on a real and personal level, beyond the realm of studies and in the realm of real applicable life-stuff. The final concept I want to mention is the mandorla that Johnson has introduced me to. Similar to the mandala, which I've grown to love through Jung's works, the mandorla the overlap between two circles offers "safety and sureness in our fractured world" Johnson also discussed language as a mandorla, which really excited the English-teacher side of me!

This is immensely healing and restorative. We are all poets and healers when we use language correctly" I have a feeling I will be rereading this little treasure many times! Sep 04, Caryn rated it liked it. Very interesting and quick read. Brings to light the constant contradictions we live everyday and that trouble everyone on some level.

We've got to let out the animalistic parts of us in healthy ways or it will come out in a destructive way. It's OK to have them and a balance of both light and darkness is to be close to the Very interesting and quick read. I like how the author doesn't tell you step by step on how to do this in your personal life.

It's going to be a different answer for everyone anyway. I like any book that makes me analyze why i do the things I do. If a book does that it stimulates my brain more than anything, which is my goal these days, i only want to learn. Mar 28, James rated it really liked it Shelves: The author, a Jungian analyst, reminds that we have not entered adequately into our consciousness, especially our own shadow.

Let's face it, typically we do not integrate the shadow unlit aspect of our self as a pure and real unity. Help in reaching out to aspects of our true consciousness lies in the sign of the Christian mandorla. The union pictures two overlapping circles. The overlap looks like an almond It. Jan 27, Terri rated it really liked it Shelves: This book explains the Jungian concept of The Shadow, what it is, how it conflicts with the Ego and how we project our shadows onto others and society.

A good primer to start with if you are interested in Shadow work. Dec 19, Kristina rated it it was amazing. This is a reference book for me! I will never stop reading it!

This book has helped me form lasting components of my life philosophy. Aug 06, Hafidha rated it really liked it Shelves: Big kudos to this book for being succinct. The main premise of the book is that human beings put themselves into bad situations and act out when they don't acknowledge the wholeness of their nature - when they try to dismiss or dispose of their less culturally acceptable traits.

Johnson presents the old idea that there must be balance between our 'light' and our 'dark' Ego and Shadow - and that without regular acknowledgement and interaction with our Shadow, we project it onto others. This des Big kudos to this book for being succinct. This destroys relationships, societies and the planet. He cites our modern society's lust for things like violent video games and horror films as a way to indulge our Shadows now that we don't have other widespread rituals and community rites to project onto. I agree with him that racism, sexism and other Othering practices is about projection and our impulse to put onto others the parts of ourselves we have, through social conditioning, rejected.

He speaks often of the terror of the mid-life crisis, which he basically sees as what happens when people are forced to face their Shadow, after spending the first few decades of life building up their Ego and Persona. In terms of avoiding mid-life crisis, I think this is a really good read. One thing that confused me about this book was the author's religious affiliation. He keeps referring to Christianity as if it is the reader's religion, but then he also brings in other religious texts, as well. It basically felt as though he were referencing knowledge about his beliefs that I never actually got the memo on.

This didn't bother me, but I did find it puzzling. Overall, I enjoyed the book. I wrote a lot in the margins and underlined much, so there was much to engage with and think about. He doesn't go much into HOW to engage ones Shadow but he talks about the importance of having rituals and symbolic acts to achieve that balance between Ego and Shadow to maintain equilibrium. I have been thinking about that and tried a few things that - I was surprised to find - did seem to make a satisfying difference. I will keep these ideas in mind.

Also, this book introduced me to the concept of the mandorla, which I'd never heard of before, but I had coincidentally just had a dream that prominently featured a mandorla I was quite puzzled about what the shape was in the dream and after the dream. When I read about it in the book I was again surprised and thought that was pretty cool.

Jan 14, Charlene rated it really liked it. It has the ability to surprise and shock -- to remind us that there are links between the things we have always thought of as opposites. Their mesa table is an altar where they say Mass for the healing of their patients. They divide this alte "Great poetry makes these leaps and unites the beauty and the terror of existence. They divide this alter into three distinct sections. The right is made up of inspiring elements such as a statue of a saint , a flower, a magic talisman; the left contains very dark and forbidding elements such as weapons, knives, or other instruments of destruction.

The space between the two opposing elements is a place of healing. The message is unmistakable; out own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.

This middle place is a mandorla. The exploration of mandorlas was exquisite. Aug 08, Katy rated it liked it Shelves: Johnson's books always have at least a few ideas in them to capture the imagination. The idea that the shadow contains some of our strengths and that our light side doesn't always embody our best qualities were two of these ideas for me. The concept of the mandorla as a way of rectifying shadow and light was especially intriguing.

Weaknesses include the book's length-- the book is very short, so don't expect lengthy explanations or detailed logical argument. It's more like three extended essays Johnson's books always have at least a few ideas in them to capture the imagination. It's more like three extended essays considering three related issues. It's a little uneven as a result. He's a little hung up on binary ideas about gender; and this work seems to assume the only reason men and women come together is sexual or romantic. And he says some things about language -- all language is mandorla being one -- that just aren't true.

On the other hand, the relationship between language and mandorla was interesting.

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What he probably should have said is that careful, creative or healing use of language is mandorla. Want to know what a mandorla is? May 16, Joshua rated it liked it. If we do something we enjoy, we spoil it with guilt about what we ought to be doing. If we do wh Accept Your Demons. If we do what we ought, what we wish for and fantasize about spoils our discipline. In mid-life I found myself in a dark wood, wandering. A friend lent me this slim volume. I was hurting too much to get a thing out of it.

A few years later a therapist suggested I try reading it again. Sep 23, Sally rated it really liked it. It's a good read for anyone who wants to confront some of their darkest thoughts and desires. Aug 29, Christian rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book was amazing to me, mainly because of its insistence that the way to God is to embrace paradox. In other words, one should not think in terms of exclusive contradictions, but rather in terms of the mandorla--the shared space between seemingly opposed principles. Mar 11, Safat rated it liked it.

I was primarily interested in this book because the author was a Jungian analyst, and recently I've become interested in Jung, the half mystique and half scientist. In the end the book delivers quite well. Towards the end of the book it engaged in some discussion which I think lacked the clarity of the first half of the book. Nonetheless, a very good introduction to the shadow.

So i do recommend. Dec 23, Kirtida Gautam rated it it was amazing Shelves: One of the best books I read in Oct 13, Flan rated it it was ok. Of all the oversimplified, cherry-picked, idiotic explanations of the shadow, this book takes the discussion down a couple of pegs. His references are vague at best; there is no scholarship between these covers.

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Just a bunch of overused drivel and examples carved into the shape he needs to support his premise. This is an excellent example of a patriarchal view of society and the psychic that does not include the feminine principle whatsoever. It twists and turns on itself to prove what the autho Of all the oversimplified, cherry-picked, idiotic explanations of the shadow, this book takes the discussion down a couple of pegs. It twists and turns on itself to prove what the author decided before he sat down to write it rather than an exploration of the shadow.

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If there were only men in society and not women of equal stature we could find some merit. However, women exist without regard to who men think they are. This fellow is quite clueless. If you say so, you surely give no support of this idea. The examples you give are only true if women are empty vessels just waiting for men to give them meaning. I know I can't read She written by the same author, because this book pissed me off so many times the cover is filled with folds and creased acquired from flying across the room numerous times.

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