Hero's Journey: The Shadow Knows

"Everything about ourselves that we are not conscious of is shadow." -- Daryl Sharp in "Digesting Jung - Food for the Journey."

The heroes in many a Disney movie were good-natured, powerful, almost-perfect characters who ride into troubled lives and troubled worlds on white horses and save the day. While it's an appealing image, heroes are seldom good-natured, powerful or almost perfect before their journeys begin.

If they were, they would have no need for journeys intended to transform them, f...