My heart aches today for the families, friends, and all of those affected directly and indirectly by the brutal slayings at Virginia Tech on Monday. This violent act is a blatant display of our individual and collective shadow. Suppressed anger, rage, and hate - born out of years of shame, neglect, abuse, emotional isolation, and unattended hurt - must eventually come to the surface. It can show up so many ways. How much unprocessed rage and hate do you think had been festering inside the young man who went on a rampage in Blacksburg , Virginia. The shadow - containing the disowned, hidden, and denied parts of ourselves - sometimes pops up in horrific ways on a global scale, and other times it pops up in smaller, less dramatic ways. We get tired. The "beach ball" (our painful feelings and dark thoughts) that we've been trying to keep submerged underwater where no one will see it pops up and hits us in the face. We self destruct, destroying our own lives and oftentimes others'. Since it will surely set us free, let's tell the truth: We are an angry culture. That's why we're so fixated on our 24- hour news sources - papers, radio, TV, and web. Everywhere you turn, there's evidence of the shadow and the suppressed pain that has birthed it. What most people don't understand is that when we see the outrageous nature of some acts of violence, or even self-sabotage, we personally get the momentary relief of believing that we're not THAT bad, THAT pitiful, THAT angry, or THAT hateful. A little pressure gets released when we read about or hear about the bad things other people are doing. What would happen if we were to take the destructive and violent reflections that we're seeing in our outer world right now and recognize them as our wake-up calls? What if we were to look at the rage of war - the destruction of other people, places, and things - as a mirror of what's going on in our collective psyche?
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The Destruction of Hidden Rage
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