To acknowledge this shadow is to own it, which does not, however, mean engaging in fruitless self-condemnation. Rather, it means accepting that, whatever our life circumstance, we are creative-destructive participants in the global drama, the course of which both determines, and is determined by, even the most seemingly inconsequential of our actions, thoughts, and feelings—especially when these are secretly guided or informed by root assumptions of the still-dominant paradigm.
