As in my very close family we have a teen fighting with the consequences of heroin consume, I just get realy mad when I hear somebody talking like something you just can try. It is an unbelievable hard fight for years full of desperation and suffering, fear and pain. Still not over the hub, but hopefully she is getting there.. ❤️
thanks for sharing your story christine <3 i completely agree. i hope your family member finds deep healing and that perhaps it can help her find her life purpose in helping others? <3 <3 <3
I am embarrassed now...suddenly aware of how I have been all too freely using my words to talk about shadow work..and really only aware of a few layers into its deep understanding//healing work. I am in gratitude for having read this.
you seeing this and disclosing this just modeled powerful shadow work and self awareness <3 i am watching you do deep work (in class) and i know your Higher Self is PROUD! and yes to teach or hold space for the shadow is not something you do without sufficient deep experience and training which takes years. i liken it to the olden days when we would start to apprentice with the master of our craft when we are young and we would be their apprentice for many years, decades even. these days with social media- people are doing all manner of things after reading an article or taking a weekend workshop. very different than how it was done in the past :-0
Thank you. Very much needed explanation of the shadow. I’ve been watching this misunderstanding for years. Drives me a bit crazy to see this misunderstanding and simplification of a complex issue.
And I never hear people talk about the need to embrace the work with your shadow if you want your anima&animus to be healed and authentic.
thanks for chiming in cathy :) hope you are doing well! and yes as jung said shadow is level 1, anima animus level 2. then if you get past both THE MANA PERSONALITY. takes many many many lifetimes to move through them all ;)
Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful essay and response to a podcast I knew nothing about! As I was listening to your essay and thanks for providing your voice recording…I was reminded of a talk on alchemy by James Hillman, he doesn’t go into great depth but says something to the effect of white people never referred to themselves as white until they (English I assume?) met African peoples and once black and white were used to refer to people and not alchemical processes we’re essentially in a racist trap that is very difficult maybe impossible to get out of. Anyway I’d never heard anyone say that before and it made sense to me because I feel the implicit bias come through me unconsciously or maybe when I’m honest with myself I can see how my language which I’ve inherited sets me up in a racist trap and the work becomes one of decolonising the way I think and speak. From an alchemical position. It or the Prima materia needs to cook and ferment quite a bit to get to the good stuff. I certainly need a good cooking.
oh i love this- going to see if i can find the reference for this. i took classes with him at pacifica years ago. he contributed to the field of depth psychology greatly!
Oh awesome I would have loved to attended one of his lectures. I heard it from either a blue fire or alchemy and psychology which are recorded lectures on audible. Definitely worth listening to. Also check out Alchemical Psychology book 5. Chapter 4 under seduction of black he writes “The curse of black comes only when color terms are laid onto human beings, a curse of our Anglo-American culture that has burdened the majority culture by labeling it white, thereby loading it with the archetypal curse of white supremacy.”
thank you! i actually tracked a book chapter down based on this material and spent a few hours reading it last weekend. i mean to follow up on this with an article or podcast on what i learned but have not had the time yet. thank you so much for bringing his talk on this topic to my awareness.
I think this is such a great opportunity for us to look at ourselves and our own shadows. To see how perhaps we have also contributed to suffering either purposely or inadvertently, simply because of the society and the times that we were born into, I also feel a deep calling to ask people to please remember our Animal, Insect, Plant and Families, Mother Nature and the Elements at this time. So much of the ancestral trauma and suffering that we are currently working through at this time that we are seeing in the collective shadow, I believe, can be healed by remembering our connection to and having reverence for ALL Life. I truly believe that if we were taught as children to respect all life and grew up vegan, that we could end racism, misogyny and so many other harmful systemic belief systems. Speciesism is just Racism on a larger scale. And until we can really feel into that guilt and shame that our souls have been screaming out at us to listen to and not project onto others, we won't be open and self aware enough to make the changes needed to truly heal. ☯️🌎
Thank you so much Harmony for speaking out about this. I am someone who has done years of shadow work and therapy, and studied Depth Psychology in College. 8th House Scorpio so I love this work of continually diving into the depths of sometimes despair knowing that I can ascend again with new clarity, compassion and perspectives on my self and what I bring into the World. Totally accountability and ownership over my Shadow and the blessings that awareness can bring. 🐦🔥♏🌊💫
beautiful lea and yes the more of us willing to look within the better! and yes to the animal and plant kingdom and Mother Earth! the animals are innocent and Mother Earth is being assaulted by human ignorance. but more and more people are waking up THANK THE GODDESS. so the tides are turning and shift is happen. i do think we are precariously to a place where the environmental disaster may not be able to be reversed- so we may be waking up while the environment is falling apart. and if so that is part of our karma. it may be that more people need to get to that point before they choose to awaken sadly :( <3 <3 <3
Thank you for sharing!
So important to set things right.
As in my very close family we have a teen fighting with the consequences of heroin consume, I just get realy mad when I hear somebody talking like something you just can try. It is an unbelievable hard fight for years full of desperation and suffering, fear and pain. Still not over the hub, but hopefully she is getting there.. ❤️
No to Heroin! You trade in your life.
thanks for sharing your story christine <3 i completely agree. i hope your family member finds deep healing and that perhaps it can help her find her life purpose in helping others? <3 <3 <3
I am embarrassed now...suddenly aware of how I have been all too freely using my words to talk about shadow work..and really only aware of a few layers into its deep understanding//healing work. I am in gratitude for having read this.
you seeing this and disclosing this just modeled powerful shadow work and self awareness <3 i am watching you do deep work (in class) and i know your Higher Self is PROUD! and yes to teach or hold space for the shadow is not something you do without sufficient deep experience and training which takes years. i liken it to the olden days when we would start to apprentice with the master of our craft when we are young and we would be their apprentice for many years, decades even. these days with social media- people are doing all manner of things after reading an article or taking a weekend workshop. very different than how it was done in the past :-0
thank you...and thank you for your very effective work..which I believe to come from the heart
Thank you. Very much needed explanation of the shadow. I’ve been watching this misunderstanding for years. Drives me a bit crazy to see this misunderstanding and simplification of a complex issue.
And I never hear people talk about the need to embrace the work with your shadow if you want your anima&animus to be healed and authentic.
thanks for chiming in cathy :) hope you are doing well! and yes as jung said shadow is level 1, anima animus level 2. then if you get past both THE MANA PERSONALITY. takes many many many lifetimes to move through them all ;)
Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful essay and response to a podcast I knew nothing about! As I was listening to your essay and thanks for providing your voice recording…I was reminded of a talk on alchemy by James Hillman, he doesn’t go into great depth but says something to the effect of white people never referred to themselves as white until they (English I assume?) met African peoples and once black and white were used to refer to people and not alchemical processes we’re essentially in a racist trap that is very difficult maybe impossible to get out of. Anyway I’d never heard anyone say that before and it made sense to me because I feel the implicit bias come through me unconsciously or maybe when I’m honest with myself I can see how my language which I’ve inherited sets me up in a racist trap and the work becomes one of decolonising the way I think and speak. From an alchemical position. It or the Prima materia needs to cook and ferment quite a bit to get to the good stuff. I certainly need a good cooking.
oh i love this- going to see if i can find the reference for this. i took classes with him at pacifica years ago. he contributed to the field of depth psychology greatly!
Oh awesome I would have loved to attended one of his lectures. I heard it from either a blue fire or alchemy and psychology which are recorded lectures on audible. Definitely worth listening to. Also check out Alchemical Psychology book 5. Chapter 4 under seduction of black he writes “The curse of black comes only when color terms are laid onto human beings, a curse of our Anglo-American culture that has burdened the majority culture by labeling it white, thereby loading it with the archetypal curse of white supremacy.”
thank you! i actually tracked a book chapter down based on this material and spent a few hours reading it last weekend. i mean to follow up on this with an article or podcast on what i learned but have not had the time yet. thank you so much for bringing his talk on this topic to my awareness.
You’re so welcome. I’m really looking forward to hearing your take on it x
I look forward to reading after I see the podcast. I don’t want to watch on Lions Gate.
happy lion’s gate!!! <3
I think this is such a great opportunity for us to look at ourselves and our own shadows. To see how perhaps we have also contributed to suffering either purposely or inadvertently, simply because of the society and the times that we were born into, I also feel a deep calling to ask people to please remember our Animal, Insect, Plant and Families, Mother Nature and the Elements at this time. So much of the ancestral trauma and suffering that we are currently working through at this time that we are seeing in the collective shadow, I believe, can be healed by remembering our connection to and having reverence for ALL Life. I truly believe that if we were taught as children to respect all life and grew up vegan, that we could end racism, misogyny and so many other harmful systemic belief systems. Speciesism is just Racism on a larger scale. And until we can really feel into that guilt and shame that our souls have been screaming out at us to listen to and not project onto others, we won't be open and self aware enough to make the changes needed to truly heal. ☯️🌎
Thank you so much Harmony for speaking out about this. I am someone who has done years of shadow work and therapy, and studied Depth Psychology in College. 8th House Scorpio so I love this work of continually diving into the depths of sometimes despair knowing that I can ascend again with new clarity, compassion and perspectives on my self and what I bring into the World. Totally accountability and ownership over my Shadow and the blessings that awareness can bring. 🐦🔥♏🌊💫
beautiful lea and yes the more of us willing to look within the better! and yes to the animal and plant kingdom and Mother Earth! the animals are innocent and Mother Earth is being assaulted by human ignorance. but more and more people are waking up THANK THE GODDESS. so the tides are turning and shift is happen. i do think we are precariously to a place where the environmental disaster may not be able to be reversed- so we may be waking up while the environment is falling apart. and if so that is part of our karma. it may be that more people need to get to that point before they choose to awaken sadly :( <3 <3 <3
Thanks. I appreciate you writing from the perspective of shadow work!