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Originally Posted by VADT757
Basically, it's believed that there are three levels of human evolution and each has it's form of conciousness. There's the 1st level with 44 chromosones. These are primitve people's like the aboriginies in Australia who do not percieve anything outside of themselves. They only see one large conciousness with no distinguishment between organisms. Then there's the second level with 46 chromosones. That is us. We are a chaotic disharmonic conciousness that is basically used as a stepping stone between the first and third levels. The third level is 48 chromosones. (Or 46 & 2, with 2 being the sex chromosones x & y). This is the higher level of conciousness. Our destination.
But this is where the Jungian theory comes in. It is believed that you can not reach this third level of evolution without first delving into yourself and basically cleansing your conciousness for the next jump. That's where the Shadow comes in. The shadow is basically everything about that is unseen that you are uncomfortable with or hate. This is also known as the Anima (hence the name of the CD).
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What you are saying is false on a few levels, OP. Let me explain what he is trying to say:
Yes, the shadow IS a part of Jungian theory; The Collective Unconscious, or Archetypes. There are 5 different archetypes, one of them being the Shadow. The list is as follows,
1. The Self
2. The Shadow
3. The Anima
4. The Animus
5. The Persona.
The Anima IS the reason that Tool named their album after this, but it isn't The Shadow. The Anima is actually the part of the male psyche that views femininity.
One last thing,
The Shadow isn't always everything we hate about ourselves. The Shadow is the part of our psyche that holds aspects of ourself that we unconsciously hide from our real personalities. Basically, it's the opposite of our ego.