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New Beginnings
Part 10
Destructive and Dangerous to
Ignore Our Shadow Self
If you bring forth what is within explains it, it’s actually dangerous.
you, what you bring forth will save
you. If you do not bring forth what For example, we’ve all heard stories or
is within you, what you do not read in the newspapers about a person
bring forth will destroy you. who has murdered several people or
committed some atrocious crime that
— Jesus, The Gospel of St. Thomas, verse 70 was uncharacteristic of him or her.
The people who knew them say, “He
The possibility of the dark side taking or she was such a good person in the
over and becoming dominant in an community! He was the valedictorian
individual is more prevalent and common in high school, or she was a very loving
in those who do not take the time to member of our church.” No one who
question themselves and really evaluate knew them in their daily life would
their behavior in daily interactions with have thought them capable of their
others. People who are overly identified unexplainable crime. The individual has
with how “good” they are can be the repressed their dark side so much that
most vulnerable because they are so their own unconscious overwhelmed
lopsided. No one can be good all the time. them. Without awareness of this
It’s humanly impossible. As Carl Jung dynamic, they express something out of
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