The Poet of the Mind - Jung.- The effect of meditation contd.

Taking the inner journey to a deeper level of understanding involves greater a little bit of an empirical understanding of the workings of the mind and the senses. In this matter i have to approach the seat of one of the great masters whose works I had attempted to study in the past, the Swedish Doctor. Carl Gustav Jung, sometimes known as the Poet of the Mind. I will never understand Jung and his intricate fabric of thoughts with regard to the human psyche not many today does for that matter unless perhaps if they are a true blue Jungian scholar, of which I am hardly. I happen to come by a set of the complete works of Jung at a Salvation Army thrifty outlet and bought the whole set for 10Rm. which is not even 3US dollars worth. Imagine that, a whole set of the complete works of a genius bought for USD3. 

"...Whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the fae we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor. But the mirror lies behind the mask and shows the true face.
This confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way, a test sufficient to frighten off most people, for the meeting with ourselves belongs to the more unpleasant things that can be avoided so long as we can project everything negative into the environment. But if we are able to see our own shadow and can bear knowing about it, then a small part of the problem has already been solved; we have at least brought up the personal unconscious. The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it is some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness."
Page 20, 43-44 - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.
G.C Jung.

What attracted me to this piece of information from Jung is the fact that it helps me to make better understanding why I earlier had said that there is a negative effect to meditation and the meditator has to become aware of this as his meditation practice progresses. That the human psyche contains numerous caches of good as well as bad things that has yet to be discovered or unearthed, these can and will make their debut now and again as in dreams and in moments least expected. We all closets full of 'things' and we would like to make believe that they do not exist or at least shoved away in some dark corners of our mind; this is our mistake when dealing with the human mind and meditation practices is simply this; to deal with the workings of the mind.