This first unio mentalis stage of the Great Work that we're concerned with here involves healing the disconnect between our ideals, intentions, and inspirations (our spirit, the “masculine” or “projective” part of our being) and our embodied, emotional, sexual, creative energy (our soul, the “feminine” or “receptive” part of us, which is also the p

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Key Characteristics

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• The shadow is not limited to the functional stack . It includes any psychological content that is repressed, whether it relates to cognitive functions, emotions, or other personal traits.


• It represents the unconscious "dark side" of the psyche but is not inherently bad. It can contain valuable qualities that have been suppresse

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According to Carl Jung, The shadow self (or the dark side of the Self) is your animal nature that lives behind your social persona. This includes the usual suspects like our fear, anxieties, envy, lust but also positives like instinct, intuition, compassion, and spirituality. The less you know it and own it, the denser, deeper, and more unpredictab... See more