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conveniently forget what they said or “To an unindividuated person, everyone
the plans they made with you. Erratic is like us or should be,” I heard, now

and restless, they are independent and deceased Astrologer and author, Richard
usually unpredictable, too. At times they Idemon say once. Consciousness and

like to shock others by revealing obvious more compassion, which is always a
truths that go against the conservative sign of advancing individuation, can
mindsets of the culture. Often they are be developed by recognizing that the

observably nervous and fidgety, rather differences we have with others do not
odd, kinky, unusual, weird or just plain have to be experienced as threatening.

unortho¬dox. It’s a rebellion against the Often, we will meet our opposites and
status quo and they love to defy authority be drawn to them precisely because
in any way they can. their dominant orientation is something

we badly need. Unconsciously, we will
”How can I be substantial if I fail to cast be either fascinated and enamored by

a shadow? I must have a dark side also them or we will become repulsed and
if I am to be whole; and inasmuch as I rejecting, so this is yet another way to
become conscious of my shadow I also see what we are needing to develop to be

remember that I am a human being like whole ourselves.
any other. In any case, when I keep it

to myself, this rediscovery of that which To be continued ...
makes me whole restores the condition
which preceded the neurosis or the Rebeca Eigen

splitting off of the complex. In keeping
the matter private I have only attained a

partial cure — for I still continue in my
state of isolation. It is only with the help of
confession that I am able to throw myself

into the arms of humanity freed at last
from the burden of moral exile. The goal of

treatment by catharsis is full confession —
no merely intellectual acknowledgement
of the facts, but their confirmation by

the heart and the actual release of the
suppressed emotions. “

—Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a
Soul, paragraph 35

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