The shadow: What is this curious dark element that follows us like a saurian tail and pursues us so relentlessly in our psychological world? What role does it occupy in the modern psyche? The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. It is our psychological clothing and it mediates between our true selves and our

The “Shadow” is everything we don’t want to be but fear we are, represented in a single image. It’s called the Shadow because it follows us wherever we go.

Every time we relax into the feared or denied part of ourselves we go through a kind of “death”—of our idealized self-image, or who we thought we were—which leads us to a new, deeper level of inner life. Each such “death” prepares us for the great death, the death of the ego’s separation from God, where we come to the center of our own being, the p