The Shadow of Jack the Ripper: A Quantum Meditation on Evil

In this monologue, Science Fiction Author D. Colin Palmer explores Jack the Ripper not as a man of flesh, but as the projection of the Jungian Shadow — the hidden self that stalks both psyche and history. Evil is examined not through crime scenes and alleyways, but through archetypes, entanglement, and the mathematics of possibility.

Here, the Ripper is an idea: a ghost of choice collapsing into violence, a waveform of fear, and a timeless presence within the human collective unconscious. The discussion crosses from Whitechapel’s fog to the equations of quantum mechanics, where uncertainty and probability mirror the unresolvable nature of evil.

It is not about who Jack the Ripper was.
It is about what Jack the Ripper is.