We still go on thinking that we are “simplex and not duplex,” to use Jung’s words.
It is truly frightening how many of us are so out of touch with our own shadow that we can easily become unconscious instruments through which archetypal evil, which lies hidden within the dark side of the human psyche, can act itself out through us into the world.3 These repressed shadowy contents build up a charge in the unconscious, becoming contaminated with archaic archetypal energies from the collective unconscious. What we don’t accept in ourselves, but rather, exclude from our self-image and push into the shadows of netherworld of the unconscious-thereby depriving it of light-becomes toxic. He was of the opinion that the fate of the world literally depended upon the recognition of the shadow elements within us and their assimilation into a more expanded sense of self that includes both our light and dark aspects. Jung felt that the catastrophic evil that is manifesting in our world today is an archetypical expression of the process of humanity’s transition from one epoch-and state of consciousness-to another. Jung, who came up with the idea of the existence of the shadow within the human psyche, had deeply valuable insights into the nature of the psychological situation in the world today, particularly the role that the darkness of the shadow plays in our modern world.
We live in a time of the emergence of great darkness in our world. Developing Jung’s “Imagination for Evil” is the Doorway to Our Light
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