How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

What was given to us by the past is adapted to the possibilities of the future.