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in others. We learn tolerance and analyzing every fascination, extract from
compassion for our idiosyncrasies, it a portion of our own personality, like a

mistakes of others because we will quintessence, and slowly come to recognize
find out sooner or later that we that we meet ourselves time and again in

cannot make Gods and Goddesses a thousand different disguises on the path
out of real people. My teacher, J. of life.”
Pittman McGehee says, “Some people —Carl Jung, The Practice of

are serial projectionists and will just Psychotherapy, The Psychology of the
keep going from person to person,” Transference, paragraph 534

because it is hard to see each other’s
shadow. When the projections do fall If we don’t see these people as a part
off, then both have an opportunity of us, then, yes, we are going to suffer

to love a real human being, and this at their hands because we don’t realize
takes maturity and consciousness. we’ve projected our own divinity onto

them. They represent our unconscious
“Both of them are unconscious powers, Anima, Animus or shadow. To the degree
“gods” in fact, as the ancient world we are unable to see exactly what part

quite rightly conceived them to be. To of us they represent, it becomes very
call them by this name is to give them painful when we try to distance or

that central position in the scale of separate from them because we need
psychological values which has always and crave that part. We’ll feel like a part
been theirs whether consciously or of us has died when they leave us. The

unconsciously acknowledged or not, emotional pain is agonizing.
for their power grows in proportion

to the degree that they remain Another dilemma in relationships is
unconscious. Those who do not see if you are involved with a person who
them are in their hands, just as a can’t ever say they are sorry, or they have

typhus epidemic flourishes best when major issues. Everyone must learn to
its source is undiscovered.” admit mistakes and say out loud, “I am

—Carl Jung, AION, Research into the sorry,” since no one is right or behaves
Phenomenology of the Self, paragraph perfectly all the time. What if you say
41 something to your partner when they

do something you don’t like, something
And … that was clearly disrespectful to you,

that crossed your boundaries. You tell
“Unless we prefer to be made fools by them your feelings and ask them to not
our illusions, we shall, by carefully do it again. Then they do it again and

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