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The Dark Shadow

Civilization, or what I call, “The Machine” is a very dense, dark shadow in all of us. Why are we not aware of it? It is because the central human-manipulating archetype in civilization’s shaman mythology known in Psychology as “The Shadow,” goes a long way to covering it up.

“The Shadow” as mythological archetype is a necessary civilizing fiction especially established in early development stages of human minds as machine mind. “The Shadow” is what Jungian Psychology and since Freud and Jung, mainstream Psychology erroneously defined as repressed weaknesses, shortcomings and instincts, (portrayed as base and human). The Shadow Myth in itself contributes to the darkness of the machine. In early development, the machine wants us to chronically repress and gradually start to project this darkness onto and into each other and into the machine, as a moving Dark dynamic to always have to be uncovered and overcome in later development, to be made conscious as an ever-present personal human animal shortcoming.

As members of “society” sic. we then have the “SOCIAL” RESPONSIBILITY to consciously acknowledge and address OUR Shadow throughout our lives as a matter of self-meditative practice. This fundamental self-deprecating mechanism is an institutional requirement for “maturity” of enslaved civilized minds in all civilization, not only the East. The very loose popular Freudian label for this “social” demand, is “overcoming the Ego.” More complete for me in the Freudian psychology: Id, Ego and Superego work as complementary pseudo-archetypal components of mythological fiction in our seduction.

The Golden Shadow

The story gets worse. Not only does the machine institute, repress an opportunistically revisit its own accusation of our weaknesses and guilt. In our elaborate characterizations of our self in early childhood development, it also institutes and represses the so-called ”good qualities.” As The Shadow, the mythological good and bad together form an organically self-organizing dynamic opportunistically manipulating the human mind as machine mind, in interplay of delusional tales of villainous guilt and heroic redemption.

The machine thus also defines our repressed good side in the maturity/enlightenment mythology as The Golden Shadow in us. This golden part of our archetype is the opportunity to ascribe to the human element gross exaggerations and lies about specific, functional kinds of human intelligence, beauty, freewill and agency in a civilizing process in which our human animal potential has been utterly compromised and we are actually near-complete robotic zombies.