The following is a personal statement of ethics that I wrote to summarize my own psycho-social values. It was something that I roughly penned in half an hour which indicates its deep subjective validity for me. Now I see it as a form of shadow work (LL quadrant) and I encourage others to write up their own ethical manifestos.

“In this article we will start from scratch and describe what the shadow of the psyche is and how it works.  In part two, we will talk about what we can actually do at the personal level because it really does come down to each of us individually.  Just as it takes courage to honestly look at the social symptoms of our collective disease, it takes even more courage to look within oneself and take an accounting of one’s personal darkness.  Because the shadow operates like a communicable disease, if we ourselves are infected, we cannot heal anyone else, in fact we only spread the infection.  So we must begin with ourselves.”

“The red pill awakening is an epiphany that attunes one’s perception to the archetypal dichotomy of freedom vs. slavery.  At the cultural level, “taking the red pill” is an awakening to the integrated systems of control and parasitism within the structure of civilization.  It is an awakening to the ubiquitous prevalence of evil in humanity, sourced in both conscious sociopathic agency and unconscious group-think…”

I’ve always been a bit squeamish and never attracted to grotesqueness, but at the same time, I’ve had a certain propensity for looking at the dark side of human nature. This began in my early teenage years when I was naturally attracted to the darker music in my mother’s record collection. I found something eerily mysterious about the lyrics and minor tonalities of songs like “The End” by The Doors, or “Paint it Black” from The Rolling Stones.

The recent tragic death of Jungian psychologist Robert L Moore has sent a flaming arrow through the hearts of those who benefitted from his powerful writings, lectures and his gracious personal counsel. He is missed, loved and will be remembered as a historical figure for his contribution to our understanding of the psyche and the nature of human darkness.