From the most remote antiquity, man learned to take advantage of all the phenomena that caught his attention, turning his environment into a true school of emotions and fantasy, worthy of the most fascinating speculations, which were the origin of the most poetic myths.

For example, that natural mirror that is water, became, in the mature reflections of the great Greek thinkers, a warning that an excess of ego can lead to an unexpectedly fatal outcome.

German Romanticism, based on the same principle, thought of the image reflected in a mirror as the ideal basis for creating its fantastic legend of the Doppelgänger: the double itself, of which it is said that we all have one, whose vision, in front of In front of him, it was just as dire as that self-worship that led the unfortunate Narcissus to drown in a pond.

Perhaps for this reason, there were many occult currents who thought that standing in front of a mirror with a lit candle was an invitation to attract, from that other side much more supernatural than the one imagined by Carroll for his young friend Alicia, the most frightening creatures.

It may be that deep down, without the need to resort to the fantastic, reflections and shadows are nothing more than metaphorical manifestations of a purely psychological issue, facing which man has always felt an irrational fear, but that all great teachers Spirituals have approached, when they recommended that of: know yourself.

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