Evil is a problem that none of us can avoid. This “dark side of reality” is not going to go away. In fact, it may be on the increase. The question of how to respond and relate to the presence of evil is a difficult one. Our instincts will suggest “fight or flight,” but what else might we do as conscious individuals? The answers we find may determine our fate. As Jung has said,
The individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost of self-knowledge. He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what crimes he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as the real and the other as illusion. Both are elements within his nature..
John Porterfield, MA, MFT, trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles and was the first analyst to be certified by the C.G. Jung Study Center, where he currently serves as a training analyst, and President. Prior to this, he wrote more than 500 produced episodes of daytime television for such shows as General Hospital and The Bold and The Beautiful. John has a private practice in Sherman Oaks. Visit John Porterfield’s website