Humphrey Caroline
School of Social Sciences, University of Hull, Room 242 Wilberforce Building, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK.
J Relig Health. 2015 Dec;54(6):2376-88. doi: 10.1007/s10943-015-0037-2.
Contemporary spirituality discourses tend to assume that a canopy of light and love overarches all spiritual pathways. Unfortunately, the dark side of humanity cannot be spirited away so easily, and aberrations of personal spiritual development, interpersonal spiritual relationships and new spiritual movements can often be traced to the denial, repression and return of our dark side. Transpersonal psychology offers a way of approaching, reframing and redeeming the unconscious depths of our psyche, with its metaphors of shadows and daimons on the one hand, and its therapeutic practices for symbolically containing and transcending polarities on the other. In its absence, any spirituality which eulogises holistic growth is likely to engender the reverse effect.
当代灵性话语往往假定，一道光明与爱的天幕高悬于所有灵性道路之上。不幸的是，人性的阴暗面并非能如此轻易地被驱散，个人灵性发展、人际灵性关系以及新的灵性运动中的偏差，往往可追溯到对我们阴暗面的否认、压抑以及它的再度浮现。超个人心理学提供了一种方式来接近、重新审视和救赎我们心灵的无意识深处，一方面是其关于阴影和守护神的隐喻，另一方面是其用于象征性地包容和超越两极的治疗方法。若缺少这些，任何赞颂整体成长的灵性都可能产生相反的效果。
