July 25 2012 ~One of the main issues that humans will be dealing with in the coming months is the need to acknowledge, address, and release their shadow side. The shadow side is that aspect of self which is generally judged to be unacceptable by the family, religion, or culture in which one grows up. Actually, it is a very important part of human nature and is needed as a balance to the aspect that is deemed acceptable.
Your illusory world deals in opposites – right and wrong, love and hate, fast and slow, etc. – and for harmony to flow these opposites must be balanced. What generally happens, though, is that one side is judged “good” and the other “bad,” and the side or aspect that is judged bad is either kept hidden or it is buried deep within the subconscious realms of the mind. Doing this causes stress and tension, and severely limits your creative abilities.
When you look at the lives and works of some of your most creative people, you can see that their shadow – unacceptable – side was very involved with the work they created, and in their daily lives and behaviors, and this is either ignored or patronizingly accepted as the “price” that people have to pay for “allowing” them (those incredibly creative ones) to entertain you with their great skills and talents. But it remains unacceptable for anyone else to behave like them.
Not acknowledging the dark or shadow side leads to psychosis for many. Others engage with their shadow side and use it to take advantage of others, and even to control them. Those of a religious bent often berate and abuse themselves for “bad” thoughts and feelings because of their beliefs about their unacceptability. But those thoughts and feelings are quite normal; they are a part of your human identity. So observe them without acting on them – trying to suppress them causes them to intensify their efforts to attract your attention, possibly leading you to be permanently at war with yourself – and balance them out with the aspects that you consider acceptable or “good.”
When you allow yourselves to ponder on what has previously been judged as the unacceptable, even evil, within yourselves it becomes far less threatening, and you find that it can in fact help you with your decision-making because it gives you a far clearer picture of the issues involved and how you truly feel about them. It enables you to live in a balanced and creative way, instead of inflexibly following paths that you have always followed, believing them to be obviously and unquestionably correct. Many of you come up against situations like this if you have children, because they constantly question everything, and if your demands are unreasonable they will tell you so. Then you either have to use your children’s input to re-evaluate and re-assess your demands on them, or you can inflexibly insist that you are the boss and that they must do as you tell them “or else!”
Recall your own childhood and how frustrating parental demands and regulations could be. Now, looking back, you can see that some made a lot of sense, but there were also many that did not. So, re-assess, re-evaluate, and let go of any inflexible attitudes, thought patterns, or behaviors in which you find yourselves indulging, and enjoy the enormous sense of freedom it gives you. Every “should” should be questioned. But mostly people just seem to accept them and act on them, or refuse and end up feeling guilty. And the result is fatigue and depression as you are so frequently working against your inclination, your intuition, and your own absolutely reasonable wishes.
Discipline and routine are a very necessary part of your lives in the illusion, otherwise the laundry would not get done, the children would not get fed, and your boss might fire you. Nevertheless, do not let them rule your lives; they are there to assist you, not rule you, and yet so many of you do seem to be so ruled. If this is how your lives feel to you, then you do need to investigate your shadow side – have you totally repressed it in order survive in an unfriendly and hostile environment?
Open up to all your thoughts and feelings, observe them without judgment, and you will most likely discover that you have been ruling yourselves, at least some of the time, with an inflexible iron hand. You will also see that you can relax, break your self-imposed rules, and find that catastrophe does not occur. In fact life, even in the illusion, can be far less pressured and far more fun if you just allow yourselves to be yourselves!
Your loving brother, Jesus.
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& some more multidimensional food for thought... Truly Prophetic words from the master Tolkien-
~ApotheosisNow555
Those prophetic words actually come from the screen writers, Philppa Boyens and Fran Walsh.
It's not in the novelization.
The crew did a marvelous job of that middle film, which are always the most difficult. And that whole speech at the end explains why. Not just in-story, but the speech actually transcends the 4th wall, and speaks directly to us.
Marvelous job indeed... thanx for the details ;-)
We are biophysical extensions of the Gaian mind... as such, there are infinite ways to integrate, and yes, ultimately release the shadows that have kept us bound to duality. At it's core, that is what Ascension is truly about. Humanity will face the Shift of the Ages as 'One'... full integration of Unity-Consciousness serving to validate the fading veils of duality as mere illusion. Important to keep in mind that 'illusion' does not mean that our experiences aren't 'real' or solid... far from it... it is just that nothing is what it seems. So, Big-Up to the Ascended Masters & Christed yogis who have Graced our planet to remind us that we are 'Spiritual Beings having a Human experience'!!!... Also, much respect to the Contemporary Shamans who have shown the courage to go beyond erroneous limitations set on Human-Consciousness. Excursions that ultimately play a huge part in setting the stage for our collective Freedom. There is always more in 'play' than meets the eye... Temet Nosce 247 Ashtar Massive! The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. ~In Lak'ech Ala K'in
“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew. And the last sane moment we ever knew was on the plains of Africa 15,000 years ago rocked in the cradle of the Great Horned Mushroom Goddess before history, before standing armies, before slavery and property, before warfare and phonetic alphabets and monotheism, before, before, before. And this is where the future is taking us because the secret faith of the twentieth century is not modernism, the secret faith of the twentieth century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock-n-roll and catastrophe theory. The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity. And I tell you this because if the community understands what it is that holds it together the community will be better able to streamline itself for flight into hyperspace because what we need is a new myth, what we need is a new true story that tells us where we're going in the universe and that true story is that the ego is a product of pathology, and when psilocybin is regularly part of the human experience the ego is supressed and the supression of the ego means the defeat of the dominators, the materialists, the product peddlers. Psychedelics return us to the inner worth of the self, to the importance of the feeling of immediate experience - and nobody can sell that to you and nobody can buy it from you, so the dominator culture is not interested in the felt presence of immediate experience, but that's what holds the community together. And as we break out of the silly myths of science, and the infantile obsessions of the marketplace what we discover through the psychedelic experience is that in the body, IN THE BODY, there are Niagras of beauty, alien beauty, alien dimensions that are part of the self, the richest part of life. I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. What the Archaic Revival means is shamanism, ecstacy, orgiastic sexuality, and the defeat of the three enemies of the people. And the three enemies of the people are hegemony, monogamy and monotony! And if you get them on the run you have the dominators sweating folks, because that means your getting it all reconnected, and getting it all reconnected means putting aside the idea of separateness and self-definition through thing-fetish. Getting it all connected means tapping into the Gaian mind, and the Gaian mind is what we're calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet. And without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set, and that's the idea; figuring out how to reset the compass of the self through community, through ecstatic dance, through psychedelics, sexuality, intelligence, INTELLIGENCE. This is what we have to have to make the forward escape into hyperspace.” ~Terence McKenna
Nope, he said "Your illusory world deals in opposites – right and wrong, love and hate, fast and slow, etc. – and for harmony to flow these opposites must be balanced."
This is already in the world that we live in and far short of a 5th dimensional consciousness. Why would we want to balance love and hate?
I agree with what he said about ignoring it. There are people who don't believe that evil exists which is another mistake. I don't know about you but I'm ready to get out of the 3D! :D
I do think it is important to integrate the more "dark" aspects of ourselves so that we may accept our ENTIRE beings...and not repress or be shameful of certain aspects we don't want to show or acknowledge..even on a subconscious level
Sorry, but I do not agree with this! We should never try to balance light and darkness. The polarities are a much different subject, and they do need balancing. So many are confused on this, but God does not need darkness as a reference point and neither should we!