Carl Jung described a person’s subconscious “Shadow” into which they repress conscious knowledge of their self which they don’t like about their self.
Tag Archives: self-deception
Racism, politics…
“I’m not a racist. I have a lot of black friends. I work with a lot of black people.”
Dark Night of the Soul (8) – Richard Rohr
In crisis, shoulds and oughts don’t help. Love wins out over guilt any day.
The Still River Hike
“The river” is a thing, but always in motion. So never really the same. It couldn’t be “the river” without its unmoving bed.
A response to religious bribery (corruption)
It’s deeply interesting to me that the religious corruption cited here is largely, to me, indeed a corruption of religious traditions themselves, and by the most visible/vocal religious adherents themselves. This is what gave rise to Nietzsche’s announcement that, “God is dead.” And it is the corrupt God-following zealots who killed God—who corrupted the wisdomContinue reading “A response to religious bribery (corruption)”
The glass-half-full metaphor
No one is transformed by thinking. It is our nature to *relate*, not contain.
Feel with Neil 