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Are any of you familiar with Carl Jung's theory of the shadow? To summarize, the shadow is the collection of negative attributes of a person, hiding in the unconscious. Everyone has one. It's everything we don't want to face about ourselves. The phenomenon when we dislike someone else, later, through retrospection, realizing that the reason we don't like them is because they remind us so much of the things we hate about ourselves can be attributed to the shadow He says that the more someone recognizes what is carried in the shadow, the more the person is willing to consciously incorporate those elements, the less dense the shadow will be Speaking in terms of energies, it would go without saying that the denser the shadow, the more negative a frequency a person will carry and the more negative things will be drawn to that person. My question is, since as a societal standard BDSM is considered "dark" and within the realm of the collective shadow, how many of you consider it to be a part of your own shadows and how many of you do not? What has embracing the shadow element done for you in your life, do you feel more cohesive as a person, more sane? What else would you say is in your shadow aspect, if you're willing to share? Thanks for your candid replies, as always x mFei