Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche

To honour and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime. We'll be exploring American author and Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson's book, Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche. In this video, we briefly clear up some misconceptions regarding the concept of shadow. It is the mirror image of ourselves that we cannot see, representing those aspects that we lack. It has a compensatory role that seeks to restore our wholeness of personality. It is not the light element alone that does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is the most profound religious experience we can have in life. The religious task is to restore the wholeness of personality. Religion means to put things back together again, to connect whatever is fractured. 👑 Become a Patron Access exclusive material and deeper studies   / eternalised   ⭐ Or become a YouTube Member    / @eternalised   — Support the work ☕ Buy a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 💸 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/etern... 👕 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com — For deeper study 📜 Full transcript: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/... 📚 Personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 💡 eBooks: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop 🎨 Artwork archive: https://eternalisedofficial.com/patro... Stay connected 📨 Newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subsc... ✍️ Substack: https://substack.com/@eternalised — Elsewhere 🐦 X: https://x.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram:   / eternalised_official   🎧 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/eternalised 📘 Facebook:   / eternalised   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche https://amzn.to/3sYHbS8 🎧 Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Peaceful Ambient Background Music – Heroes – CO.AG Music 2. Blue Feather – Kevin MacLeod 3. Mourning Song – Kevin MacLeod 4. Sinister Dark Ambient Background Music – Dark Rage – CO.AG Music 5. Mysterious Ambient Background Music – The Rake – CO.AG Music 6. Exhale – Myuu 7. Stillstand – Myuu Subscribe to CO.AG Music    / @co.agmusic   Subscribe to Myuu    / myuuji   Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)    / kmmusic   Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche Slender Threads: A Conversation with Jungian Analyst and author Robert A. Johnson    • Slender Threads: A Conversation with J. Pi...   Robert A. Johnson - Your Shadow    • Video   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:12) Misconceptions of the Shadow (5:20) How the Shadow Originates (8:35) Balancing Culture and Shadow (12:39) The Shadow in Projection (15:04) The Gold in the Shadow (16:38) The Shadow in Middle Age (16:59) The Ceremonial World (17:46) Paradox as Religious Experience (21:54) The Shadow as Entree to Paradox (23:02) The Mandorla ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thanks for watching! #shadow #psychology #jung