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The Shadow Archetypes

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. The task of midlife is not to look into the light, but to bring light into the darkness of our unknown self. This unknown or hidden self is described by jungian psychology as the shadow. This is the dark/hidden/unknown side of our personality. Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you. To quote Miyamoto Musashi there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

Jung also believed that "in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness - or perhaps because of this - the shadow is the seat of creativity"; so that for some, it may be, 'the dark side of his being, his sinister shadow...represents the true spirit of life as against the arid scholar.

Edgar Allan Wright stated that we might have dominant and subdominant archetypes within us[1]. He called them Secondary Archetypes[2]. There have been amazing comments to both of his posts.

Through my glyph studies and some aspects of the Niantic Project I´ve seen regularly a pattern. More than once my mind was faced with the theme of the dragon[3]. Hank Johnson fears that dragons[4] lie within the Techthulu and Roland Jarvis once said that the awakening dragon shall devour us all[5].

The dragon is one of the most easily recognized mythical beasts. It is also a pervasive symbol in a variety of cultures, giving rise to many interpretations about exactly what a dragon is, what it represents, and how it behaves. It can be associated with good luck, fortune and wisdom, or with bad luck, elemental evil and heresy. Carl Jung would have called the dragon a symbol of the universal unconscious, since so many cultures have myths associated with a dragon, or dragon like beasts.

Everyone knows these stories in which the hero fights against the dragon. If we believe the jungian point of view it is a confrontation with the unknown shadow.

I don´t know whether each Archetype has its own shadow or not. There´s one question Roland Jarvis once asked. „How could this happen and can it happen to you?“ He stated that XM is the answer. Exotic Matter as a catalysis for creativity? Creativity as a process to reveal your own shadows? Maybe #MagnusReawakens might give more answers.

[1] https://goo.gl/ooho0i
[2] https://goo.gl/95l0aw
[3] https://goo.gl/xFYgud
[4] https://goo.gl/URDXOn
[5] https://goo.gl/yrerbX

Fellow Essexians, what do you believe?

Edgar Allan Wright​​​​​
H. Richard Loeb​​​​​