Comments on: Shadows

By: Okeanos

Okeanos — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:38:57 +0000

As above, so below.
If heavens (Like demiurge) remain imperfect, then so does Earth.
And such, our connection to ourselves is thwarted by this dichotomy.
A man once told me that when you empty your bottle (Of negativity), another bottle catches it and the energy has to go somewhere. In correspondence, when we become more pure so our shadow will be stronger on the other side. I have not yet found any sound solution to this but I am guided to reason, humility and modesty in my discoveries so as to keep myself balanced – thus maintaining the consciousness so it does not do the proverbial sea-saw.

I enjoy reading your blog
Much Love and Light

By: Sr.Elena

Sr.Elena — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:06:14 +0000

Fragment, I’m glad you could take comfort in my post. Also it makes me feel better to know that others endure the same. Of course, I am not glad that others suffer also, but just that I am not alone in my journey

By: Fragment

Fragment — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:14:41 +0000

I wanted to let you know that this blog post is of great comfort and inspiration to me personally. I have been in the grips of the shadows (archons?) so many times, most especially after a great illumination of Gnosis. To know that this is something which occurs in others helps sustain me on my path.

Thank you so much.

By: Bro. BhDA

Bro. BhDA — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:49:21 +0000

The Zohar and later texts (and probably the Talmud and earlier texts) talk about the Yetzer ah Ra, the Evil Inclination which comes from the place of divine corruption (strange idea, I know). The YaR is an interesting beast. Its like Jung’s “Shadow,” but meaner and semi-sentient and independent of us even while its connected to us. Its the little devil that sits on your shoulder and whispers bad thoughts into your head, usually with a lot louder whisper than the little angel that sits on your other shoulder shaking its head.

The think about the YaR is that its absolutely necessary. There is a story where Rabbi, Akiva probably, or one of his students, captures the YaR. Its wonderful for awhile. There is no death (the YaR becomes associated with the angel of death and haSatan), no crime, no despair, etc. etc. Then someone notices that there is also no art and no love and no babies or any other kind of creativity. That this comes either directly from the YaR or from the tension between the YaR and the Yetzer haTov, the Good Inclination (which you may think as your Higher Self, if you’d like).

Or, the Dark Night of the Soul is necessary if you want to see the Rising Sun (Son?).

By: eoNblue

eoNblue — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:12:37 +0000

i’m not very good at paraphrasing and what not, and i know this will be sadly butchered, but something about when the unconscious mind attempts to do something (grow, program new paths CHANGE), the ego portion puts up a helluva fight. perhaps, as your ego has know you so well for a very long time, uses what has always been a weakness? in sensing you are about to take another leap away from it, it tries to bring you crashing back into it by bringing these memories, feelings, etc to the forefront? there’s no reason such things should suddenly appear. it’s like a subliminal booby trap…