There is power in looking into the darkness as we recognize the parts of us that we repress, collectively and individually especially our cultural obsession with the body and human sexuality. Anything repressed doesn’t go away, it comes out in a distorted form hence perversion and obsession so prevalent around us. He talks about our shadow needing to be loved and how in order to get us to our wholeness, the Self within us will do so even if it creates havoc for the ego and the shadow will importune consciousness. Pittman describes the anxiety that becoming conscious entails, the wounding as we encounter the Self but also that there is meaning in our suffering and to have the faith that nothing will destroy our relationship with God/the imago dei/the Self. This took place at the San Antonio, C.G. Jung Center on May 15, 1998.