An excerpt from the essay “From the Darkness of the Unconscious Mind to the Defeat of Ahriman.” You can read the original text on the Farzanesh and Philosophy website through the link below:

During the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the Nazi German commanders and among the principal organisers of the killings and atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War, the British writer, philosopher and scholar of Eastern thought Alan Watts, referring to what he had learned from Carl Gustav Jung, one of the greatest figures in the history of twentieth-century psychology, said:

I will certainly fight, until my final breath, the darkness of the way of thinking that Eichmann represents, but I will never accept that he is the devil or the embodiment of darkness; for I learned from Jung that if I imagine my enemy as the absolute embodiment of darkness and as wholly demonic, I will prevent myself from seeing the darkness within myself.

Calling the person who stands against us false inevitably creates in us the dangerous belief that we are entirely right; and calling the person against whom we fight the devil ultimately leads us into the dangerous delusion that we ourselves are the truth—a delusion that is itself at the root of the fall of people such as Eichmann. When Eichmann and his commanders called Jews the embodiment of evil and the devil, they opened the way to believing that they themselves embodied light and the struggle against evil. With a clear conscience born of this self-deception, they told their young soldiers that their ideal was to purify the world of everything impure and demonic, and this allowed them to justify to themselves the most horrific crimes. If we, too, are incapable of seeing the Eichmann and Hitler within ourselves, and if we doubt that each of us, given the right time and place for the emergence of our own darkness, might become Eichmann, an Auschwitz guard, or the SS soldier carrying out his orders, then the only thing separating us from becoming them is an opportunity to exercise power and violence.

Aydin Areta
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