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  • How to Make Use of Dark Feelings and Dixon White’s Example

    How to Make Use of Dark Feelings and Dixon White’s Example

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    There is an unexpected freedom that arises as we acknowledge the dark parts of ourselves; defensiveness, judgement of others, exaggerated entitlement, and participation with the “isms” racism, sexism, etc.  This freedom comes about because it is exhausting and poisonous to defend a belief that is not true.  It is poisonous to others and poisonous to…

  • The Shadow

    The Shadow

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    “Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C.G. Jung, Collected Works 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335 How to make the “darkness conscious”…