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Hello Todd,

New here. But not new to the ideas. I began writing as a commenter on digital platforms many years ago -- attempting to act as a canary-in-the-coalmine -- which was not always heard. Since reading a Holocaust memoir as a girl, I had never stopped asking how/why the 60+ million Germans of the 1930s had gone collectively mad and bad under Hitler. Very few persons of the post-war era ever seemed interested in either the question or the answer.

I grew up and studied formally, I observed and experienced life.....and years prior to COVID-mania I realized that the West is in a SHADOW POSSESSION. Not just the Shadow appearing here and there, but the group Shadow taking over. It is a very particular situation.

That is the Jungian term, of course. The other term for this phenomenon is Totalitarianism -- which is not solely political; it is a specific human dynamic found in many spheres.

Someone this week directed me to your Substack since you were writing on my theme. I hope to have a book published late this year as well.

I know of course that Mattias Desmet did his podcasts on one of the terms used -- Mass Formation -- but I found that it was too little, and this aspect had already been covered by Gustave Le Bon in 1895. It was more a glossary presentation than an explanation of the principles involved. Mattias has presented no real overall explanations of the phenomenon....he even turns a blind eye to vital aspects. Which I have told him.

At any rate, Carl Jung himself did not initially recognize the Shadow Possession of 1930s Nazism. Therefore I think I have done quite well in recognizing it as the principle here in the WOKE West.

I look forward to reading your work beyond the most recent article, which is what I have seen to date.

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