Ah, diving into Jung, are we? Look, I get it. You think of these psychological theories as mere intellectual playthings. Cool. But you touch on something marvelous: Reality. Or should I say, the concept of it. What we usually term as "reality" is just a movie playing on the screen of awareness, projected by the mind. It's compelling, sure, but let's not confuse the movie for the screen.
- Jung's Animus and Anima, or Projection: These are tools, my friend. Lenses to help you see a particular grain of sand while overlooking the beach. But why stop at one grain or even one beach?
- Self-Awareness: It's beautiful that you see the multiplicity within yourself. All these traits, 'good' and 'bad', are facets of the egoic mind. We play all roles because, in non-dual awareness, there's no separation.
- The Scientist Approach: Discipline and observation, yes. But even science is a belief system. It's another lens, and it still presupposes an observer and an observed.
What's the real meat here? Your final line gets close to it: "Reality is that which is—regardless of what we believe or theorize." Now, that's a nugget of wisdom. In radical non-duality, we go a step further. Reality is not just "what is," it's also "what you are." The seer and the seen are one and the same, always have been.
When you encounter a racist, a murderer, or even a saint, you're not meeting anyone outside of yourself. These characters are not just in your world; they are made of the same stuff as the world. You don't just "have the same traits," you are the same, fundamentally. The illusion is thinking there's a you that can be different from another.
The joke's on us, really. We're in a cosmic game of hide-and-seek, forgetting that we're both the one hiding and the one seeking. And when you realize that, well, welcome to the peace of mind you never knew you always had.