What is the Shadow?




Sounds True: Producer's Pick show

Summary: Sounds True producer Randy Roark says, “There’s no area of interest more important to me these days than what is known in psychology as the shadow.” Our shadow is understood as the unacknowledged part of us that influences our decisions, undermines our efforts to change, and keeps us repeating the same patterns again and again. Yet if the shadow is by it’s nature everything we cannot see about ourselves, what can we do about it? In this excerpt from the audio program Knowing Your Shadow, Dr. Robert Augustus Masters explains his understanding of the shadow, and how we can actually work towards the seemingly paradoxical goal of reclaiming it in order to become wholly and consciously who we are.