Shadow Work

Shadow work:

and Jung called it the shadow, all our darkness as well as light not owned, nor even recognized and then projected to the world. It’s living by reaction, triggered by our own fear of being truly whole. For wholeness to exist means there is no human quality that doesn’t belong to us by some degree. To embrace our shadow is to find ourselves whole, complete.

exactly as we are.

this seems the opposite of the Vedic Neti Neti inquiry, to negate all we believe ourselves to be by process of eliminating common identifications as “not this, not this” and finding the inherent emptiness of our nature. Yet it’s not so different than owning our shadow, it’s similar work really, as finding ourselves empty of projections leaves us free to embrace all that arises through the capacity of our hold. It’s at once not this, not this, as well as full acceptance of all we appear to be. We are free to find and accept ourselves as simply human, both shadow and light.

emptiness, and completely full.

whole.

shadow work is simply seeing, and owning what appears — in someway, everything is a projection of the mind. To observe a tree is to instantly tell ourselves a story of every tree we’ve ever seen before. We largely ignore the newness of this particular tree, it’s fresh appearance to our view. In reality…