projecting the darker intentions or 'shadow'... 'the lie' ('devil' means ‘liar'). The person is unwilling and afraid to consciously feel and experience their own guilt and shame. In order to hide from their shadow they split it off and project it onto the outside world. Projecting the shadow is lying to others as well as lying to themselves . disassociation from oneself is self-deception....  self delusion... the person deludes themselves into believing their own lies They hide their own lie from themselves thus further feeding the sense of guilt and creating the process which  they are hiding from.. This process of splitting-off from  guilt develops a momentum and a sovereignty of its own and the person is taken over in the process... they are manipulated, victimized and possessed by the darker forces which they themselves set in motion through their refusal to reflect on their feelings of guilt and then experience them consciously. Fighting against their own shadow is a losing battle. The person gets caught up in a self-created and self-creating self-reinforcing feedback loop that is ‘closed’...  it is insular and not open to any feedback from the ‘real’ world an infinite regression  as the endless wheel of cyclic, problematic, involuted spiral of ever increasing madness... a crazy-making double-bind with no 'exit strategy'... this is acted out in the outside world.  The person is so dissociated from their shadow that they split off from it and  project it onto others and then try to destroy the dis-owned shadow. the person becomes possessed by the very thing they are trying to destroy, thereby perpetuating a never-ending cycle of violence.   This inability to experience their guilt sets in motion a self-perpetuating cycle of denial, cover-up and projecting the shadow, all of which are based on a lie. suffering-filled existence known in Buddhism as 'samsara'. Their unconscious, fear-based re-actions have dangerous implications. 

 The need to coerce and dominate others is an external displacement of the need to overcome the fear of being overwhelmed by one’s own unconscious.

Being so taken over by his unconscious as a result of his unwillingness to feel his guilt, the inner process is incarnated into outer forms which become the embodied "revelation" of the inner process.

 like a figure in a dream - reflecting back to us the part of ourselves that is feeding and thereby supporting our own darkness. Seen as a dreaming process, in which George Bush is a figure that we’ve all dreamed up into materialization, we have dreamed him up to mirror back to us our own ignorance, madness, and darkness, so as to help us recognize and integrate these pathological parts within ourselves of which he is merely a reflection.

Being an embodied reflection of this part of ourselves is to say that Bush is not separate from us, as we are all interconnected parts and expressions of the underlying unified field. We don’t exist in isolation from Bush, nor him from us, but rather, in co-relation to each other.

Avoiding relationship with one's shadow results in a chronic 'guilty conscience'... an expression of "unconsciousness". turning away from consciously experiencing one's  own guilt and shame literally feeds the shadow, both on the personal level, and on the collective, archetypal level.  To the extent that each person is not dealing with their own guilt they  contribute to the collective shadow that plays out in the outside world.

  When one is unwilling to consciously experience their shadow they necessarily project it outside of themselves. The shadow is split off and gets "dreamed up" into materialization in the outside world. Once we meet our projected shadow in the outside world, we immediately contract against it...

the way to work on our inner process is by actively participating in the outside world, while concurrently, the very way to change the outer world is by looking within and working on our inner process.  

Once we project our shadow, we fall into a vicious cycle in which we are endlessly hiding from and lying to ourselves. In order to justify our shadow projections, we continually have to entrance ourselves into believing the lie that is inherent in our shadow projection. Jung refers to "shadow projection" as "the lie." Etymologically, lying is related to the word "Devil" who is the "liar." Shadow projection is intimately related to the evil that plays out in the world.

We secretly feel a sense of guilt when we project our shadow, because inwardly we know we are not in harmony with our integrity. This sense of guilt itself is the very feeling from which we split-off. Our guilt does not allow us to feel our guilt, which is what we secretly feel guilty over. To the extent that we don’t consciously experience our guilt, we become caught in an infinitely-perpetuating double-bind in which we project out our darkness, which just perpetuates the very thing we feel guilty about... insidious futility of shadow projection... one cannot project one’s shadow on to others, and there is no advantage in insisting on their guilt, as it is much more important to know and possess one’s own guilt, because it is part of one’s own self and a necessary factor... it is of primary importance to get in touchwith one's  own guilt.... be conscious of it... Once we consciously access our own guilt, we withdraw our projection of the shadow onto others... the evil we’re seeing in the other is our own evil… we realize that we can no longer keep evil at bay by projecting it outside of ourselves.

Once we withdraw our shadow projections from external reality, we dis-spell and dis-engage from the diabolical feedback loop which we were unknowingly feeding and in which we were imprisoned. Once we withdraw our shadow projection from the outside world and recognize it within ourselves, we are able to snap out of our self-created double-bind and consciously feel our guilt and shame and sin. Once we become fluent and engaged with the darkness within ourselves, we no longer have to hide from it, which is to say from ourselves, by projecting our shadow outside of ourselves. We can thereby take responsibility for our role in perpetuating this cycle of self-deceit and denial, and with our increased consciousness, bring our complicity in this dynamic to an end. We are then able to deal with the "sublunary world" of the dark unconscious, both within ourselves and as it appears in the outside world. Once we are acquainted with the archetypal darkness which expresses itself non-locally throughout the field, this darkness reveals itself to be an expression of the light, as it is the darkness itself that has illumined us.

Becoming "intimately related" to our own darkness empowers us to effectively deal with the darkness in the world in a way that was unavailable to us as long as we were avoiding a confrontation with our own inner darkness. When we were hiding from our own darkness, we were trying to destroy it as it appeared in the outside world (which is merely an "externalized" reflection of our "inner" act of contracting against our own darkness). In other words, the darkness (inside of us) is trying to get rid of the darkness (in the outside world), as if the darkness is trying to get rid of itself, which is the very act that generates and is generated by the darkness in the first plac

Once we consciously take the shadow back into ourselves, we become an instrument, a flash of light that illumines the darkness in the outside world. Instead of reacting to the darkness in the outside world through the lens of our own unembraced darkness, which simply creates, through projection, more darkness, we are able to see the darkness through the part of ourselves that is separate from it. Paradoxically, seeing our own evil is the very thing which activates the part of us which is "other" than and free of evil. This part of us that is "other" than evil is the only part of us that can clearly see evil (as it plays itself out both within ourselves and in the outside world) because it is not "mixed up" with it, and thus, is not blinded or deceived by it.

At the same time we see the evil part of ourselves, the part of us that is seeing evil is free of it, for we couldn’t objectify it otherwise. For example, if we have jaundice, we couldn’t pick out what objects are truly yellow, for everything looks yellow. The part of us that is seeing the color yellow is the part of us that is "yellow-free." Paradoxically, it is only in recognizing and owning the evil within ourselves that allows us, by virtue of being the witness of it, to relate to it as "other" than ourselves, which is to be free of it ("evil-free").

This is a very subtle, but immensely profound point. When we see the evil within us, by owning it we simultaneously witness it as other than and separate from ourselves, which is to get in relationship with it as an "other." Simply aware of what it is witnessing, the part of us that is the witness of "evil" is free of the attribute that is being witnessed; it is not the "guilty party." The evil I am witnessing within myself is an aspect of me and I own it but it is not mine. This is the personal/impersonal paradox of the soul: what is most me is not mine.

We are only able to bear the experience of the evil within us and not fall into overwhelming despair if we recognize the "transpersonal" origin of evil Instead of identifying with the evil we have found within, thinking it "belongs" to us individually, we recognize that evil is 'archetypal' in nature...

intrinsic wholeness enables us to not split-off from nor identify with, but rather contain, transmute and liberate deleterious effects of evil. Becoming engaged with and intimately related to the transpersonal evil within us simultaneously acquaints us with the part of ourselves that is beyond the personal ego...  

 the part that experiences the guilt that is bound up in the evil within is the guilt-free innocent) part of us. When we consciously experience our "feelings" of guilt  the underlying guilt begins to melt and transform. The "innocent" part temporarily hidden by our unwillingness to experience our guilt. Paradoxically, by consciously experiencing one's guilt and shame one experiences remorse and then becomes acquainted with one's innocence. This "innocent" part has never been tainted by darkness... unstained This innocent part can be identified as human divinity... or 'God'.

Consciousness of guilt acts as a powerful moral stimulus… without consciousness of guilt there can be no psychic ... spiritual maturation... widening of the spiritual horizon.  genuine regret... remorse brings a renewal of the spirit. This is the 'remorse of conscience' source of  humility.

"In making the shadow conscious we must be very careful that the unconscious prevent a real confrontation with the shadow which increases consciousness of the good and the positive aspects of one's nature. The shadow itself is not "bad" it is a mere "shadow" with no substance. It is our turning away from and avoiding our shadow creates the darkness from which we are turning away.

 danger of identifying withthe shadow feeling  possessed by it and acting it out unconsciously. Once we develop a strong enough sense of self, however, we relate to it as an "object" other than ourselves, but we then experience the darkness "subjectively," as we experience ourselves as the source of the darkness...  a form of clinging and grasping, which is the very act that generates the darkness against which we are resisting.

Christ said "resist not evil." embrace unconditionally both the light and dark sides of ourselves. Snapping out of the self-created and infinitely-regressing feedback loop of fighting against our own darkness is to realize that our very grasping itself is the origin of the problem of evil... we are then able to transmute the darkness into light. Christ said, "My burden IS light."

 spell of dualistic mind  separates the world into alienated fragments that seem to be at "odds" with each other.

The only way to realize the union of opposites is through an expansion of consciousness in which we recognize our interconnectedness and interrelatedness, and develop a more complete and holistic vision of our inseparable relationship to each other and the universe as a whole. Not only "subjects" of our inner process, we become the "objects" of a deeper, mythic, archetypal and divine process .

 evil is related to, not separate from, and a revelation of our true nature. evil helps us to realize who we are in a deeper, more ultimate sense. Evil awakens in us the recognition of our true nature, similar to how we would never notice the surface of the mirror without its reflections.  evil can potentially enliven the part of us that is truly free.

 when we become truly acquainted with our true nature – which embraces both light and dark and is simply aware of what it witnesses  Acting from the living experience of our basic goodness and primordial purity, we can then truly be of benefit to the world. 

pathological part of his psyche has co-opted all of the healthy parts into its service. pathological ...condition,  "…an unknown  ‘something’ has taken possession of a smaller or greater portion of the psyche and asserts its hateful and harmful existence undeterred by insight, reason, and energy... proclaims the power of the unconscious over the conscious mind, the sovereign power of possession."

 We speak of a mother complex, or a father comple,xl a savior complex... embodies  the unconsciousness of the time.  the person playing the archetypal role of savior reflects this unconsciousness and becomes inflated by the power of the archetype. He  compelled to act out his hubris in a way that is destructive for all who are under his dominion... delusions of grandeur, and has become megalomaniacal... unconsciously identified with the archetype of the Messiah. One should listen to the inner voice attentively, intelligently and critically Just because one hears an inner voice doesn’t necessarily mean it should be followed.

 By projecting the shadow in this manner one becomes possessed by the very shadow one projects. This is falling  under the spell of the Devil... possessed byu the  devil... "the deceiver."... 'beast'  Because of inflation, the person feels they are above human morality,  under the delusion that he is the supreme moral arbiter, not realizing that he has fallen into his unconscious, whose dark side he is acting out... pathological condition, he is the last person who should be the judge of morality

 ‘identification with the shadow,’  occurs at moments of collision with the unconscious." by dissociating and projecting out our shadow, we become unconsciously identified with it, possessed by it, and unconsciously act it out. complexes are unconscious this  guarantees them freedom of action.  unconsciousness helps the complex to assimilate the ego, resulting in momentary and unconscious alteration of personality... identification with the complex. In Middle Ages it was called possession.

Because of complete unconsciousness one becomes an instrument for evil...  symbolized by the devil. The devil is a variant of the "shadow" archetype. The person is unconsciously taken over by the shadow become possessed... genuine humility is impossible. the perverse nature... depravity  avoid self-criticism, preach to others,  know nothing of themselves. no self-knowledge so that nothing can disturb their illusions.

By being inflated, one is unconsciously accessing and unleashing the power inherent in the archetype…  an enchanting power over his followers. By identifying with the archetype, the archetype acts as an amplifier, enhancing hypnotic power over his followers. taken over by the unconscious, he has a compelling and entrancing effect on the unconscious of others

. Only one who is seized by an archetype has a gripping effect on others. It is a psychological fact that an archetype can seize hold of the ego and even compel it to act as it wills. A man can then take on archetypal dimensions and exert influence accordingly By being so seized by an archetype of the collective unconscious, becomes an agent that has a very powerful effect on the field around. He becomes a portal through which an underlying psychic epidemic which non-locally pervades the field "malignant egophrenia" feeds, replicates, and actualizes itself

When we become unconsciously gripped by an archetype, we become pawns in the hand of a deeper power. Succumbing to the compulsive adrenaline rush of the "will to power" inherent in the shadow Bush has become arrogant and full of himself, a legend in his own mind, someone who feels he is not bound by law, and believes himself entitled to get away with murder. Speaking about being unconsciously taken over by an archetype Here we see the characteristic effect of the archetype: it seizes hold of the psyche with a kind of primeval force and compels it to transgress the bounds of humanity." When we are gripped by an archetype and forced to unconsciously act out its effects destructively, we are acting out the dark side of this greater power. Etymologically, the word "transgress" is related to the word "evil."

The world literally shape-shifts around someone who is inflated and blown up with an archetype, as this inner state of possession is able to synchronistically express itself through the medium of the outside world. To quote Jung, "…archetypes are not found exclusively in the psychic sphere, but can occur just as much in circumstances that are not psychic (equivalence of an outward physical process with a psychic one)." [Emphasis in original] When we become inflated by an archetype, there is a synchronistic correlation between the inner experience of being identified with the archetype and outer events. The inner state of being possessed by the archetype expresses itself by arranging external events so as to give shape and form to itself. A person inflated by an archetype, such as Bush, literally becomes the channel through which transpersonal, mythic forces become materialized into our third-dimension, which just reinforces his inflation in a diabolical feedback loop.

By identifying with the archetype, Bush becomes seized by the archetype’s irresistible field of force and unwittingly becomes the agent who does the archetype’s bidding. By being so taken over by an impersonal force, Bush has become a "magnet" which torques the field around him so as to insatiably feed his own pathology, while simultaneously wreaking havoc on the field.

Taken over by the archetype’s magnetic power, Bush achieves a certain magnetism, which polarizes the field around it. Like a magnet, archetypes are bi-polar, having a negative and a positive aspect. On the one hand, the power of the archetype coming through Bush attracts people to support him in his delusion who are suggestible to the overwhelming unconscious power inherent in the archetype. In a co-dependent relationship, Bush’s followers feed his identification with the archetype, which simultaneously nourishes their own bewitchment, in a perverse, self-perpetuating feedback loop which develops an autonomous life of its own.

At the same time, Bush’s identification with the archetype repels other people, who react against the one-sidedness and perversity of his inflation. By being so unconsciously identified with the archetype, Bush will literally attract to himself, like a lightning rod attracts lightning, other people’s negative, shadow projections. These people will strongly condemn Bush, and see him as being evil. And yet, people who react against Bush in this way are unwittingly feeding the polarization in the field, perpetuating the very diabolical energy they are reacting against. 

If we concretize Bush as being evil, we are projecting our own shadow onto him and are then guilty of the very evil of which we are accusing Bush. Interestingly, another inner meaning of the word Devil is "the accuser." If we are accusing Bush of being evil, we are guilty of the very evil of which we are accusing Bush. Bush is merely an ignorant human being who, due to his unrestrained greed, desire, and lust for power is unwittingly allowing himself to be used as an instrument of evil. Evil itself is a power, or principality that transcends the merely human dimension, as it is archetypal in nature and thereby is a content belonging to the collective unconscious. Bush is simply a deluded human being who is dangerous because of his position of power, which allows him to act out his pathological process on the world stage. We do not want to make the mistake of attributing evilÑüan archetypal content of the collective unconsciousÑüto Bush as a person.

Becoming possessed by an archetype of the collective unconscious is an expression of not only forfeiting our humanity, but of abdicating our personal responsibility as well. A true Faustian pact with the Devil, we discover too late that what we have lost in the bargain is our soul. As in any such bargain, we are ultimately responsible and accountable for our choices. Identifying with the archetype of the savior is a compensation for a deep inferiority, fear, and weakness. We become absorbed into the archetype due to our inability and unwillingness to deal with the darker part of ourselves that needs saving.

Though describing Hitler, Jung just as easily could have been describing Bush when he said that he had a "…conceit that bordered on madness, a very mediocre intelligence combined with the hysteric’s cunning and the power fantasies of an adolescent." Bush is acting out the adolescent fantasies of a war of good versus evil with our living sons and daughters as his toy soldiers. Being inflated, Bush doesn’t relate to other human beings as being autonomous or independent, but as pawns to serve his own narcissistic blindness and masturbatory fantasies.

Jung pointed out that "Inflation magnifies the blind spot of the eye…. A clear symptom of this is our growing disinclination to take note of the reactions of the environment and pay heed to them." When we are inflated, we don’t accept any reflection or feedback from the outer universe that contradicts our puffed up image of ourselves. Instead of being open, receptive, and learning from the outer world, we continually interpret everything to support our delusory self-image. When we become inflated, we become closed to any information or in-forming influence from the outside world, which is a form of psychic blindness. Instead of being in genuine relationship to the world, a person who is inflated relates to the world through their own narcissistically self-serving, grandiose self-image.

Speaking about madness, Jung said that it "…consists essentially in the fact that the unconscious in large measure ousts and supplants the function of the conscious mind. The unconscious usurps the reality function and substitutes its own reality." Jung continued that this resulted in "…senseless, unshakable judgments upheld in the face of reality [for example, Bush saying, ‘the war in Iraq is going well,’ despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary]." Being caught up in inflation is like being sucked up by a cyclone, as there is literally no getting through to the person who is inflated, who has been taken over and lifted off the ground by a more powerful energy. Bush and his supporters feed into and off of and support each others’ unconscious madness so as to conjure up an impenetrable field around them that resists consciousness at all costs. It is only when their world destructs that the universe forces them out of their psychosis.

Just as the unconscious always compensates a one-sidedness, inflation inevitably results in all of the air (life, breath, spirit) being taken out of the person who is inflated. Inflation is ultimately self-destructive and always results in catastrophe. Talking about inflation, Jung said that it "…can be damped down only by the most terrible catastrophe to civilization, another deluge let loose by the gods upon inhospitable humanity." The fact that our government, led by an inflated madman, is insanely and endlessly investing in and feeding the industry of creating weapons of mass destruction is an extremely dangerous situation for all of us. To quote Jung, "Let man but accumulate sufficient engines of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use. It is well known that fire-arms go off of themselves if only enough of them are together."

Bush has let the spirit out of the bottle which will undoubtedly destroy him. Being possessed by the unconscious is a very dangerous situation, particularly when the person so taken over is in a position of power where he can act out as well as activate a virulent madness on the world stage. Bush’s madness affects all those under his sphere of influence, which in this case is the entire planet. Jung commented, "It is abundantly clear that such an abaissement du niveau mental [lowering of the mental level], i.e., the overpowering of the ego by unconscious contents and the consequent identification with a preconscious [as compared to conscious] wholeness, possesses a prodigious psychic virulence, or power of contagion, and is capable of the most disastrous results." When such a "lowering of the mental level" happens collectively, a psychic epidemic becomes activated in the field. The (collective) unconscious goes from being in the background and comes actively to the foreground, where it makes itself known by (destructively) giving shape and form to world events. It is merely a question of mitigating the damage of this virulent psychic epidemic for the rest of us.

Seen as a dreaming process, we are all complicit in dreaming up Bush to pick up the archetypal role of savior. Our doing this is clearly a reflection of the part of ourselves which is disempowered and is not in touch with the savior within ourselves. To be in touch with the savior within ourselves is to be in touch with the wholeness of our true nature, which is to be truly saved and redeemed. To the extent that any of us get in touch with the part of ourselves that is a genuine redeemer and leader, we literally are dis-investing energy from the archetypal role of leader being dreamed up outside of ourselves in a pathological way. When we consciously and collectively access the part of ourselves that is a leader by our very nature, we become truly empowered. Being in touch with our God-given power engenders a situation in which the savior archetype is consciously distributed throughout the field, rather than being localized and concentrated in a single figure, which is a set-up for abuse.

The only way to change the collective nightmare we are sharing is through inner transformation in the individual, which collectively gets mobilized on the world stage so that we can effect genuine change. As each of us wakes up, we discover that we can reciprocally empower each other so that we can consciously activate the archetypal figure of the savior in the collective unconscious itself. Mediating, humanizing and incarnating this archetypal figure consciously throughout the field, we connect in lucidity, stepping into being agents of light who collectively dis-spell the darkness in the field.