Liberty Jubilee

Carl Jung once said, “The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.”

He meant it not as poetry, but as a warning. The moment a person begins to awaken spiritually, the first thing that surfaces is not peace, not love, not bliss.

It is darkness. The unconscious erupts before the divine can descend.

Jung called this the law of compensation. Whatever has been repressed must rise first.

This is why every genuine awakening begins with chaos.

The shadow comes first because it has been waiting the longest. He described the psyche as a vast field divided between what we know and what we refuse to know. The moment we strive toward higher consciousness, we disturb that balance.

The ego wants light. The unconscious releases shadow. The two forces are inseparable.

When someone says they’re beginning to awaken, what they’re really saying isthat the contents of the unconscious have begun to move. Jung said this is why seekers so often mistake awakening for breakdown. The darkness that floods them is not failure. It is the psyche correcting itself after years of denial.

Jung’s patients who experienced early spiritual openings rarely found them beautiful. Instead, they were overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, intrusive dreams, strange synchronicities, and inexplicable despair.

They thought something was wrong with them. Jung would tell them gently,

“No, something is right with you. The shadow has noticed your light.” He explained thatbefore the ego can meet the self, the totality of consciousness, it must first meet everything it rejected.

The more light you seek, the more darkness you summon. Modern seekers often misunderstand this. They chase bliss, visions, vibrations, imagining awakening as ascent.

Jung warned that ascent without descent leads to inflation, not transformation. The unconscious will not allow it. – Surreal Mindset