People who have a very strong “will-to-Goodness” don’t necessarily have very strong/extreme shadows, but often do, because they created the very strong will-to-Goodness by strongly suppressing their antisocial desires, which then strongly polarized those desires.
How much data do you have about people with a very strong “will-to-Goodness” having strong shadows? It doesn’t match my anecdata, and I find it more plausible on priors that most people with strong “will-to-Goodness” tend to not have had e.g. childhoods that taught them the world was zero-sum, and/or have less of the genes that cause people to be dark triad.
I mean that their BDSM-like desires are cooperating strongly enough with their other desires that they’re a little bit present most of the time, rather than driving them to create simulacra of highly transgressive behavior.
This was interesting to read because I often like to make slightly mean-spirited jokes. (I didn’t know about shadow work before reading your comment, but having read about it now it sounds like it’s something I’ve pretty much always been doing casually and regularly.)
How much data do you have about people with a very strong “will-to-Goodness” having strong shadows? It doesn’t match my anecdata, and I find it more plausible on priors that most people with strong “will-to-Goodness” tend to not have had e.g. childhoods that taught them the world was zero-sum, and/or have less of the genes that cause people to be dark triad.
This was interesting to read because I often like to make slightly mean-spirited jokes. (I didn’t know about shadow work before reading your comment, but having read about it now it sounds like it’s something I’ve pretty much always been doing casually and regularly.)