The Shadow

Poet Robert Bly described the human shadow as a black bag we drag behind us full of discarded, disowned, and unknown parts of ourselves. So what is the shadow? How does it affect our day to day life, and how do we work with it? What are the dangers of not "cleaning up" our shadow? We cannot become fully integrated when parts of ourselves aren't even conscious. Host, John Moore describes the shadow and how it is a driving force in our lives. After defining the shadow, he talks about how to become aware of what's in our shadows as a step towards integrating the disowned parts.