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my friend, and serious question.... Has anyone ever explained to you the concept of shadow work ?
Shadow work is the spiritual and psychological practice of facing, understanding, and integrating the parts of yourself you usually repress, deny, or fear.
It’s based on Carl Jung’s idea of the Shadow: the unconscious aspect of your personality that holds traits, emotions, or memories you’ve hidden away to “survive” or be accepted.It’s the art of turning your darkness into wisdom.
None of the notable esoteric scholars we've had in the history of forever were able to come to the revelations they did by believing that love and light is the only way to heal themselves or others, or be a proficient psychic medium. You have to seek answers to the occult, in the dark. You have to make peace with your own darkness, instead of letting it afflict and control you. Be friends with it even.
The answer is not rejecting your own darkness, or the darkness of entities that may surround you. It's called strengthening your discernment to make educated decisions while interacting with the dark, and becoming a duel sided blade while you navigate occultic philosophy.
Many of the people here in this thread have put in the work to be comfortable with their shadow side, and the shadows that work with them.
Truth be told, alot of what you would probably consider "demons" or "evil entities" really don't go out of their way to bother humans and afflict them with illness or mental health issues. This is a common misconception and stigma put on our friends on the other side. At some point you have to separate the occult from modern science and medicine. Most physical illnesses, impairments, and mental health issues come from our bodies being subjected to endure the harshness of the physical world and our own biology working against us. Even rarer is it because somebody put a curse on you, rarer than that is a "demon" attempting to harm you on its own volition.
I would never tell a disabled or chronically ill person that the reason why they're being afflicted with pain is because they're "too dark" and they need to become a "pure soul". That's nonsensical and cruel.
However a practitioner can learn how to heal themselves and others, but only by understanding that they need to use both the light and dark found within themselves to do so.
Shadow work is the spiritual and psychological practice of facing, understanding, and integrating the parts of yourself you usually repress, deny, or fear.
It’s based on Carl Jung’s idea of the Shadow: the unconscious aspect of your personality that holds traits, emotions, or memories you’ve hidden away to “survive” or be accepted.It’s the art of turning your darkness into wisdom.
None of the notable esoteric scholars we've had in the history of forever were able to come to the revelations they did by believing that love and light is the only way to heal themselves or others, or be a proficient psychic medium. You have to seek answers to the occult, in the dark. You have to make peace with your own darkness, instead of letting it afflict and control you. Be friends with it even.
The answer is not rejecting your own darkness, or the darkness of entities that may surround you. It's called strengthening your discernment to make educated decisions while interacting with the dark, and becoming a duel sided blade while you navigate occultic philosophy.
Many of the people here in this thread have put in the work to be comfortable with their shadow side, and the shadows that work with them.
Truth be told, alot of what you would probably consider "demons" or "evil entities" really don't go out of their way to bother humans and afflict them with illness or mental health issues. This is a common misconception and stigma put on our friends on the other side. At some point you have to separate the occult from modern science and medicine. Most physical illnesses, impairments, and mental health issues come from our bodies being subjected to endure the harshness of the physical world and our own biology working against us. Even rarer is it because somebody put a curse on you, rarer than that is a "demon" attempting to harm you on its own volition.
I would never tell a disabled or chronically ill person that the reason why they're being afflicted with pain is because they're "too dark" and they need to become a "pure soul". That's nonsensical and cruel.
However a practitioner can learn how to heal themselves and others, but only by understanding that they need to use both the light and dark found within themselves to do so.
