12-17-2019, 11:16 AM
(12-17-2019, 08:45 AM)Ray711 Wrote:(12-16-2019, 07:58 PM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: Carl Jung pointed out that "people do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious".
I like to think that a bullet proof way of determining one's chosen polarity is to identify whether the trend is to accept and love their own shadow side, or to control and suppress their own light.
"Any mind complex distortion which you may call emotional which is of itself disorganized, needs, in order to be useful to the negatively oriented entity, to be repressed and then brought to the surface in an organized use."
Like you pointed out, for the STO entity the shadow must be confronted and made conscious at one point.
One need not be overpowered by their shadow once they've gone through a dark night I'm finding.
You don't have to take on your shadow all at once.
Allow it to show itself and love it, a little at a time.
It produces low-level nervousness, but also love at the same time.
That's how I'm working with shadow.
Like they said in The Lion King "being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble."