Naad Meditation for Integrating the Shadow

April 21, 1983

Almost all neuroses dwell in the subconscious, and from there, they overpower the conscious mind and control our behavior without our awareness. These secret desires can turn against us, create unwanted consequences, and could ultimately defeat us. 

As Jung states in Vol. 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East, “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it… But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and is liable to burst forth suddenly in a moment of unawareness. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.”