Standing with the shadow, not against it

CC Jean Stimmell

"Again we are approaching shadow psychology. What is “shadow” when we stand in it rather than against it? How do the twilight regions of the serpent look when the threshold is imagined as a doorway and not as a censor – where consciousness itself slithers, slips its skin, and speaks with a forked tongue?"

From James Hillman. Senex & Puer  (Kindle Locations 1856-1858).