Does Consciousness and Competence hold Shadows that are not easily runned away from?

Carl Jung ascribed the Root of Human Evil to "the Refusal to meet the Shadow."
By the Shadow Jung meant the part of out mind containing those things that we would rather not own up to, that we are Continually trying to hide from ourselves and others and sweep under the Rugs of our consciousness.
Most of us, when pushed up against the wall by evidence of our own Sins, Failures, or Imperfections will acknowledge our Shadow.

By the use of the word "Refusal," Jung was implying something far more active.

Those who have Crossed over The Line that separates Sin from Evil are characterized most by their Absolute Refusal to Tolerate a sense of their own sinfulness.

This is because their central Defect is not that they have no conscious but they Refuse to Bear it's Pain. In other words, it is not so much the sin itself but The Refusal to Acknowledge it that makes it Evil.

In fact, the evil are often highly intelligent people, who may be quite conscious in most respects but have a very specific unwillingness to acknowledge their shadow.
The briefest definition known is that it is "Militant Ignorance."

But Evil is not general ignorance; more specifically, it is Militant Ignorance of the Shadow.
Those who are evil refuse to bear the pain of Guilt or to allow the Shadow into Consciousness and "Meet" it.


Instead, they set about - often at great effort - militantly trying to destroy the evidence of their sin or anyone who speaks of it or represents it. And in this act of destruction, their Evil is Committed.

Has the apprentice returned in it's major new venture?

Guilt - although often viewed as a "Downer" - is in many ways a blessing.

Having a Genuine awareness of one's Shortcomings is what is often called a Sense of Person Sin.

It is not pleasant to be Aware of Oneself as a Naturally Lazy, Ignorant, Self-Centered being that rather Routinely betray its Creator, its Fellow Creatures, and Even its Own Best Interests.



Yet this unpleasant sense of personal failure and inadequacy is paradoxically the greatest blessing a human being can possess. 

Unpleasant though it may be, the gift of appropriate guilt is precisely what keeps our Sins from getting out of hand.

It is our most effective Safeguard against our own Proclivity for Evil.

Among the reasons for becoming more conscious is to avoid becoming Evil.
Fortunately, the truly Evil represents only a Minority of the human population. 

Yet lesser forms of psychological illness abound.

And although not evil, they too can reflect an Unwillingness to Meet Our Shadow.

Sigmund Freud compellingly wrote that there is often "Sinister" stuff lurking in the depths of the unconscious mind.
Traditional Freudian psychology has taught us that the causes of most psychological disorders stem from hidden feelings - anger, unacknowledged desire , and so on.
Because of this, psychological illness has been localized in the unconscious realm by most thinkers, as if the unconscious were the seat of psychotherapy, and symptoms were like subterranean demons that surface to torment the individual. Fortunately The Road Less Traveled holds the apposite view.

Psychological disorders are basically disorders of consciousness.
They are not rooted in the unconscious but in the Conscious Mind that Refuses to think and is unwilling to deal with certain issues, bear certain feelings, or tolerate pain.

These issues, feelings, or desires are in the unconscious only because a pain avoiding conscious mind has thrust them there. 
Of course voters assume that no incumbent walking around is so unhealthy that they are not at least slightly conscious.

And no one is so healthy that he/she is totally conscious.
There are innumerable degrees of consciousness, given that some people exert themselves more or less than others. But the degree of consciousness is inherently hard to measure.

Even with the tools for gauging mental health, through standard psychological testing, it is difficult to determine anyone's true level of consciousness. 
We can Speculate based upon Behavior but perhaps the best measure of someones degree of consciousness is best found in the Consistency of the general approach.

For Example, a person who is oriented more toward thinking "Simplistically" has a lesser degree of consciousness than ones who Think With Integrity.
In this way, thinking and consciousness are inextricably locked together in a parallel relationship.
Consciousness is the Foundation of all thinking, and thinking is the Foundation of all consciousness.
Anytime there is a Failure in Thinking, there is Corresponding Deficit in a persons level of consciousness. 

Thus, all human behavior - the good, the bad, and the indifferent - is determined by the Extent, or Lack therefore, OF THE QUALITY OF THINKING AND CONSCIOUSNESS INVOLVED.

General Voter therapy comes down to two distinctive arenas of thought with only one correct incumbent answer.
Where we appear stuck, there's no need for therapy because we will clearly grow well without it or where not growing remains stuck and spinning it's wheels compass conditions of Inefficiency red flags, common sense points to wherever there's a lack of efficiency there is potential for unnecessary lack of competence that will require election therapy?


Where free will always leaves this choice up to us, it generally never stops there where yet another reason to seek greater consciousness while highly overlooked contains remaining keys that could be readily found in proper Discernment of the Biblical Examen.

The Examen is the Foundation of mental and Spiritual Growth and it is through this growth that we as nation become ever more Competent in all affairs of the heart.
Share reference: M. Scott Peck, M.D. (Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety)

Could a Higher Power Far Greater Than All Utilize his Worst "Reprehensible" Birth Right 

as ultimate sacrifice potentiates the rest to take It's Redemption more Seriously?