and spiritual values generously offered by concerned parties – the fact well described by psychoanalysts and philosophers in their works. This is how our social life is organized and understood and in this sense either highly developed capitalism or pluralistic democracy with its variety of “existence”(not life) opportunities are not much different from totalitarian egalitarianism. By far not every one is willing to spend his time and efforts on self-improvement and people for the most part are quite content with whatever values the society has to offer. But as the old saying goes: “a sacred place can not stay unoccupied for long” and if a person doesn’t feel like improving his inner world to know himself better, someone else will gladly do it for him. After all, human material can always be used for any purpose.
This is however by far not the only danger. Besides someone else’s will there’s another very important factor affecting us and which we know nothing about – our own unconscious. As Jung puts it: “In our mind we are our own gods, the ‘factors’.” (Here the author refers to his statement as to gods being called “factors” from facere – to make). [1; 113]. “But once we have walked through the door of the Shadow, we discover with terror that we are the objects of unseen ‘factors. To know this is rally unpleasant , since there’s nothing more disillusioning than finding out the truth of our own inadequacy” [1; 113]. Jung further maintains: “Ignorance is no guarantee of security, and in fact only makes our insecurity still worse, it is probably better despite our fear to know where the danger lies. The greatest danger threatening us comes from the unpredictability of the psyche’s reactions”[1; 113]. Every adolescent clearly sees the
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