
Deconstructing the Myths (Part 1)
UNDERSTANDING THE SELF An inner voice tells you that there is much more to your life and yourself than you are capable of experiencing at the present time. Carl Jung defines the Self as the purposiveness of being, a process by which we honor the mystery that we are. It is the totality of all the parts of the psyche – the ego, the conscious mind, the personal and collective unconscious, the persona and the shadow, among other elements of our psychological being. Because of its