ABSTRACT
Inspired by the chakra system from the Hindu metaphysical tradition, the author's findings were organized into seven major tendencies by which the Shadow most commonly manifests in project management practice and discourse. The seven axes in which the Shadow emerges in project management practice and discourse are: issues concerning identity and basic resources; relationship issues and handling desire and sexual drives; hierarchies, power, and control; the emotional axis, issues of belonging and intimacy; taboos and organizational silence; and spirituality and finding purpose. Morality and shared values concerns the preoccupation with doing good, and the decision not to. Hierarchies, power, and control concerns the establishment of power structures and control structures, and how projects members are able to integrate any implicit or explicit hierarchy. Spirituality and finding purpose deals with the challenges of lack of faith, nothingness, despair, or lack of purpose. Moral action, ethics, norms, and the hierarchy of moral values is set at this stage.
