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Life’s Roller Coaster
With any facet of life, in the light of awareness there is a mirror image. For every truth, an equal and opposite truth. We often revile the negative as destructive. We say that is the opposite of what we want, when in fact it’s a mirror image of the thing desired. This is why attachment…
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Embrace Light and Shadow
For any light you have a shadow. The truth of any spirit is found not in the object of the senses nor its opposite, but in between. But often we see only what we choose to. We declare one small facet of reality ‘truth’ and refuse to see it very deeply. People refuse to see…
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Embrace Pleasure and Pain
Some would embrace their dreams, deny their nightmares, and say that they know what it is to dream. They will indulge in pleasure and shun pain, and say they know what it is to feel. But when confronted with the reflection of what they seek, its mirror image, they ask, “Why do I experience this?”…
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Secret of Conflict
The secret of conflict is that there is no conflict. We perceive ourselves to be in opposition. But the one who opposes you, do they oppose “you”? Or has their way run afoul of yours? They seek something in opposition. Imagine an auto accident … It is nothing about opposition, just nature interacting with nature…
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Still Your Mind
I contemplate grim things in my life. I admit this freely. And some others think that I do harm in these dark meditations but I see them in the “light” of the bigger picture. I just admit my natural inclination. Anyone ever practice scrying? When you affix your gaze in scrying, into ink or water…
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Equal Part Shadow
We all know the world of the light. It’s the world of the taught and the agreed upon. It’s the world of the approved and that which is publicly seen as virtuous. But there is another side to the world. A side that some people come to think applies mostly to them only, and a…
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Ripples In The Shadow Realm
The realm of shadow is the realm of the subconscious. In fact, your subconscious itself is an artefact from your pre-incarnated existence. It arises as an impetus in the collective unconscious that leads two people to pair up. Each circumstance being in essence different, if not in practice, and this potential energy remains with you…
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Shadow Hunting
I think I’m denying parts of my shadow and don’t even know it. How do I start to uncover those? Shall we discuss shadow hunting? Even those who aren’t creatures of shadow can learn from them. Ever notice how carrion eaters watch the healthy and unhurt? It isn’t threatening. They don’t intend to kill or…
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My Relationship To Shadow
A bit about my relationship to shadow. Having an ASD (autism spectrum disorder), as a developmental trait, has set me up to perceive much that remains hidden to others. In the strictly intellectual task, I don’t have habitual filtering for “pleasing” images, so I don’t select for those in embedded figure patterns. I am likely…
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The Occult
Do we see all there is to see in our world at any given moment? Why not? It’s beyond the scope of the human brain in the state of normal consciousness. Indeed, it is. In the total spectrum of life, are our choices necessarily the best informed? They are as best informed as they are able…
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The World Is Whole
As people focus there awareness on any single facet of the world, it comes to fill our minds. Define our experience, if only for a moment. But as we become more accustomed, those moments get longer and longer until this thing that we were observing from the outside is now something we are immersed in,…
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Light And Dark Schism
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. That is absolutely true. I will even ask, how do we know what is wrong? Every failure teaches us about the ways that do not lead to success. And all ways lead to success, but they don’t all lead to the heart. If one hates the self, then…
Category: Shadow
Here is a crazy thought. There is no enemy anywhere. Insane huh? Nothing to exert our will against. Nothing to change. Nothing that is not us. Not one of us, no one who is not your family, no one who isn’t in your mind, your heart. What would life be like that if that was recognized as the truth?
Here is a crazy thing. You are your own worst enemy and wherever you go there you are. And since there is no enemy anywhere…where are you?
“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.” Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama