Each year you must pay city officials, social agencies, state agencies, insurance funds, police and tax losses to support the kinds of clients mentioned in this work. Instead of trying to maintain the status quo and implying that your social services should keep the shadow quiet because the taxpayers want this, consider the following. The shadow destroys cultures if it is not valued and its meaning not understood. Intensive care for the city shadow would mean learning about it and publicizing both its financial costs to the city and its message from another world about the future of our planet. Some of its present messages seem to be:
1 Trance states are important
Introversion is not a disease, but a corner of the personality waiting to be experienced by everyone. Not everyone needs to talk. Look into trances, examine them. In these states, the world itself is stopped and reconsidered.
2 The gods are still around
The city’s shadow shows that the archetypes of the Virgin Mary, Napoleon and Jesus are still around, though nobody takes much interest in them these days. Fantasy is important, for it teaches about the totality of being human. These savior figures and godlike experiences are channeled through the shadow because they are not welcomed by the collective. You don’t believe in these figures because you do not know yourself yet.
3 The shadow is a trickster
A message of the city’s shadow is to relax. It is important to be retarded sometimes, not to think but to focus only on feeling problems which everyone else skips over. The shadow is a trickster because it says that it is always time for vacation, time for more sex and fun. The shadow says to brag more, because by bragging we see parts of ourselves we do not take seriously now. The shadow says a good fight in the best of families sometimes clears the air. The city shadow says that we are crazy, the shadow is the healthy one.
The shadow wants to be cared for. He says, T am not interested in pain. I have no courage and am not a hero in life like you. I give up on life, I sometimes need to collapse, even commit suicide. I am sometimes a slow and timid outsider, won’t you wait for me? I have troubles. I am old, senile, sick and suffering and cannot make it alone. I am mad, addicted, violent, lonely and homeless. I have fits of jealousy and feel betrayed. You know me in yourself!’
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THE CITY SHADOW: TO THE CITY GOVERNMENT
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