Juan

“Since we share a common humanity, and somewhat common culture, we often share history-driven energies around money, power, sexuality, food, and the like. While our ancestors could project the origin of these splinter selves externally onto a Devil, or an Evil One, the modern has a greater likelihood of recognizing that these darker thoughts and acts come from within us, and that we, in the end, are responsible for them.”
― James Hollis, Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves

“Somehow this background lived through me, producing a kind of knowing that was totally new. I could see a severe level of paranoia in one person, and a sinister past in Nazi Germany in another, while in behavior they were kind and intelligent. As I later learned from someone who knew these people well, my perceptions were strikingly accurate. I just felt these things were true.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society

“The freer he can keep himself of hard and fast principles and the readier he is to sacrifice his ego-will, the better are his chances of being emotionally grasped by something greater than himself.”
― Connie Zweig, Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

“Before this vision, I don’t remember having heard about this or about mystical happenings in general, and if I had, I’m certain I either paid such reports no heed or scoffed at them as superstition. My life had been devoted to scientific, rational pursuits, but the Light experience radically changed me.”
― Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society