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the points of view held or expressed by loving member of our church.” No one
consciousness. If an extreme, one-sided who knew them in their daily life would
tendency dominates conscious life, have thought them capable of their
in time an equally powerful counter- unexplainable crime. What has happened
position is built up in the psyche. This is that this individual has repressed their
first inhibits conscious performance and dark side so much that the unconscious
then, subsequently, breaks through ego overwhelmed them. They do something
inhibitions and conscious control. The out of the ordinary precisely because
law of enantiodromia underlies Jung’s they have denied and suppressed their
principle of compensation. own dark side.
The following is an excerpt from my The truth is we’re actually more
Shadow Dance & the Astrological 7th vulnerable to our Shadow if we don’t
House Workbook: pg 40 know about it. Our Shadow becomes
hostile only when it is ignored or
Destructive and Dangerous misunderstood.
The possibility of the dark side’s taking
over a person is more prevalent and Another common example is the
common in those who do not take the devout, pro-life Christian who flips
time to question themselves and evaluate to the other side and is charged with
their behavior in daily interactions with murdering a doctor they believe is
others. People who are overly identified an abortionist. They have committed
with how “good” they are can be the murder themselves, but they can’t see
most vulnerable because they become that they have done the same thing they
lopsided. No one can be good all the are fighting against. Another well-known
time. It’s humanly impossible. As Jung example is the powerful evangelist
explains, it’s actually dangerous. preacher Jimmy Swaggart, condemning
sex from the pulpit, while cavorting
For example, we’ve all heard stories with a prostitute. Any area we are overly
or read in the newspapers about a identified with is subject to an experience
person who murdered a lot of people of enantiodromia. We are more in touch
or committed some horrific crime with our wholeness when we do not
that was uncharacteristic of him or become lopsided in one extreme or
her. The people who knew this person another.
say, “This was such a good person in
the community! He or she was the Jung also said that we do not always
valedictorian in high school or a very know what the unconscious is
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