Shadow Work Is Not Easy At All

Shadow Work Is Not Easy At All [and why it is the most essential work] The ego, wetiko, and “charlatan within” [augmented by occult forces] will resist it with all the rationalizations and justifications to keep blaming and projecting evil externally. Or the opposite, the denial of evil due to naivete or spiritual bypassing and misapplication of the higher truth that “All is One.” The surface ego mind will keep you from facing evil within yourself, which [ironically] would contain the “remedy” for what we call “evil.” So, we still have a long way to go. It is all in its due time in the context of the evolution of consciousness. Some are not ready for this process. Shadow Work has also become more popular, and with it, its distortions and over-simplifications. You can also easily fall into the “shadow bypass” by just intellectualizing the process [as I did for many years] or simply not understanding what shadow work entails. You hear that often when people say, “Not everything we see in the world is a projection of our shadow,” “I’m done with shadow work. I don’t project or have any triggers,” “Are we just supposed to do only shadow work and be passive?” All three statements expose a lack of understanding of what shadow work is from a transpersonal psycho-spiritual perspective. Many people start it initially but fall off the wagon, easily tempted by the loosh of projections as it feeds their inner predator/wetiko. You can see it a lot in the “truth movement.” It’s much easier and more satisfying to blame others and project evil on the evil boogeyman, some group, “secret society,” or some cabal that “rules the world.” Real shadow work is messy as it entails a Putoinian descent into the depths of your being, facing everything you have suppressed, repressed, are afraid of, have avoided, and which you are completely unaware of as you project it on others. Shadow Work is inevitable on the path of awakening. Everyone will have to face it sooner or later, in his lifetime or the next one. All spiritual traditions have conveyed it in their own words and symbolism even before Carl Jung. The more you think of yourself as a good, virtuous, moral person [especially taking pride in that], the denser your shadow and unconscious evil within yourself. The more you project hate, anger, and disgust on people, groups, or individuals you deem as “evil,” the more you are driven by your own unconscious evil, and the “matrix has you” as you keep re-creating and feeding evil externally. Moreover, the less you have made your shadow conscious and faced evil within you, the more likely you are to fall into psychological splitting and see others in oversimplified “good” or “bad” labels without nuance or any higher spiritual vision beyond the 3D material world. Before we can awaken, we must admit to ourselves how asleep we really are. Before we can genuinely discern truth from lies in the world, we must first and foremost face the lies we tell ourselves. This process is the hardest part for the avoidance, justifications, and rationalizations of the wetiko-infected mind will avoid the necessary “disillusionment” at any cost, getting stuck in blame and victim consciousness, self-pity, or self-importance. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther [more resources below] “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” – Gospel of Thomas “None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.” – Sri Aurobindo “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line separating good and evil passes, not through states, not between classes nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “A study of history shows that humanity is going through a development of consciousness. The current fifth post-Atlantean cultural epoch involves the development of the consciousness soul, in which the [real] ‘I’ becomes increasingly aware of itself within the soul. Rudolf Steiner emphasized that this also involves learning to deal with evil. In developing self-awareness, one inevitably encounters one’s own inner shadow.” – Thomas Mayer “In general, looking at one’s own shadow is purely disagreeable, it is no fun, and the results also are not very amusing, but it has one great advantage: the more one knows about one’s own wickedness, the more one is able to protect oneself against that of other people. The evil within oneself recognizes evil within the other. If I am naive about my own evil intentions, then I shall fall victim to those of others. Everybody can lie to me and I shall believe them, or they will play tricks on me, and I shall fall for it every time and be the poor babe in the wood, the fool who had such good intentions, but whom the evil world has treated badly. That does happen, especially to young people, and generally to naive people-they are really harmed by evil people. But indirectly, they are guilty, for they haven’t sufficiently realised the evil within themselves. The idealistic fool who gets cheated by everybody and always has bad tricks played on him cannot be helped by pity, but only by being led to his own shadow.” – Marie-Louise von Franz “We are still certain we know what other people think or what their true character is. We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves. If you imagine someone brave enough to withdraw all his projections, you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.” – Carl Jung From veilofreality.com

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