New Age Spiritual Movement Frustrations

[Spiritualchaos]

This is why I'm always surprised that people don't understand shadow work and dismiss it as negative navel gazing, instead of regarding it as the most important healing tool one has access to. Superficial healing through false positivity will eventually cause a crash and burn.

Yes that is exactly what I am trying to say through encouraging the sharing of experiences. How does one know what it looks like in order to use these practices in real life? Maybe they don’t share stories because they don’t have any? Either or, they are giving a bunch of spiritual toddlers tools and allowing them to run around with them on the playground without supervision, which is a very dangerous practice to encourage. 

Shadow work indeed. You cannot learn your way into healing or enlightenment. You cannot go, “well all is one, we are all the Creator, so I’m going to focus on my bliss at the expense of all other feelings, including the ones I need to heal within myself.” Never a good idea, as they will always come back, and with more and more intensity.