Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche

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.

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▶ Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
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📝 Sources

- Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
- Slender Threads: A Conversation with Jungian Analyst and author Robert A. Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0raXj8AM6M
- Robert A. Johnson - Your Shadow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ89myWRLZk

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
3:12 Misconceptions of the Shadow
5:20 How the Shadow Originates
8:35 Balancing Culture and Shadow
12:39 The Shadow in Projection
15:04 The Gold in the Shadow
16:38 The Shadow in Middle Age
16:59 The Ceremonial World
17:46 Paradox as Religious Experience
21:54 The Shadow as Entree to Paradox
23:02 The Mandorla

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