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No one can be good all the

time. It’s humanly impossible.

As Carl Jung explains it, it’s

actually dangerous.

the ordinary precisely because they have with murdering a doctor they consider to

denied and suppressed their dark side for be an abortionist. They have committed
so long. We’re actually more vulnerable murder themselves, but they can’t see

to our shadow if we don’t know about it. that they have done the same thing they
Our shadow becomes a hostile force only are fighting against.
when it is ignored or misunderstood.

Another well-known example is the
Flipping from one extreme to its opposite powerful evangelist preacher Jimmy

is something Jung called enantiodromia. Swaggart, condemning unmarried sex
He learned the term from the philosopher from the pulpit, while being caught with
Heraclitis, who described it as “running prostitutes. Any character trait we are

contrariwise.” In simple terms, it means overly identified with is subject to an
that psychologically, when an individual experience of enantiodromia. We are

goes too far in any one direction in their actually more in touch with our wholeness
behavior or character, eventually they will when there is a healthy balance of light
flip and display in their behavior the exact and dark in our character providing us

opposite. with a resistance to becoming lopsided in
one extreme or another.

A common and well-known example is
the devout Christian who is pro-life but Jung also said that we do not always
flips to their other side and is charged know what the unconscious is

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