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While Jung lost out to Freud for the most part in the development of clinical psychology, there are a surprising number of progressive thinkers who thing that Jung covered some areas much better than Freud, and the expression of the unconscious mind is one such area. Freud seemingly couldn't get past the idea that the psyche is wholly and immutably the product of the accumulated wounds to the developing mind while Jung saw a more dynamic picture of development. Most notably, he saw that where we are most apt to attribute our darker side to external influences, it is an because we are disassociating from aspects of our nature and projecting them onto people and circumstances around us. He called this part of our psyche the shadow.

In an evolutionary context, the goal of the spiritual life is not peace; it's perpetual development. Evolutionary enlightenment is about the ecstasy that compels us to create the future. And it's not a future that's going to unfold by itself while we go back to sleep. It's a future that we forge the hard way through direct, conscious, intentional engagement with the life-process itself.

Andrew Cohen