Introduction to Shadow Integration
The most complete and comprehensive guide for Integrating your Shadow
“People are rarely who they seem to be. Lurking beneath their polite, affable exterior is inevitably a dark, shadow side consisting of the insecurities and the aggressive, selfish impulses they repress and carefully conceal from public view. You must become aware of your own dark side. In being conscious of it you can control and channel the creative energies that lurk in your unconscious”
-Robert Greene
According to Carl Jung, Shadow is the alternative conscience of the mind. It competes for ownership and control of our thoughts, with our actual conscience. It can be said that the shadow is the collective conscience of ideas, thoughts, and qualities we repress.
Man becomes enlightened, and complete when he becomes harmonious with his dark side
To completely understand yourself, you must know all parts of yourself, and to be at peace with yourself, you embrace all parts of yourself. When the malevolent power of the shadow is used to construct and forge realities that the individual desires, is possible when the individual integrates his shadow.
The hero and villain within becoming one and the same, we’ll call this state of being as a Civilized Barbarian