Shadow gay

Perhaps the most tough challenge for any gay man is to facehis have Gay Shadow, that disowned region of the mind populated by themost shameful and horrifying aspects of the self. Banished by the egoto fester in the unconscious, the rejected Shadowside continues toexert tremendous alter in us male lover men, inspiring covertpsychological agendas and self-destructive behaviors. This age-oldrepression--universal in all humankind--has been horribly intensifiedby two millennia of Christianity. Along with its ruthlessdemonization of homosexuality, Christian tradition has relentlesslyshamed the darker aspects of the human psyche, in effect destroyingthe ability of anyone within its grasp to achieve psychologicalwholeness. Many leaders in the so-called Brand-new Age spiritualitymovement hold taken this schism one step further by trying to makethe Shadow vanish completely, dangerously encouraging us to imagineourselves as all beam and love. But now, through our archetypalaffinity for psychology--as well as many other capacities--gay menhave a unique opportunity to descend into the underworld and confrontthe Shadow, thereby beginning to revive the split between light anddark within