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To honour and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.
We'll be exploring American author and Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson's book, Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche. In this video, we briefly clear up some misconceptions regarding the concept of shadow. It is the mirror image of ourselves that we cannot see, representing those aspects that we lack. It has a compensatory role that seeks to restore our wholeness of personality. It is not the light element alone that does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is the most profound religious experience we can have in life.
The religious task is to restore the wholeness of personality. Religion means to put things back together again, to connect whatever is fractured.