Re: shadow projection+

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Alice says:

>>We are witnessing an explosion of 'evil' behaviour in the world today, much of it the result of a collective shadow proj wh the 'axis of evil' was pronounced. Enantiodromia has set in w/a vengeance! As in the Inquisition the great intention of driving the devil out of the people, the devil walked in the backdoor of the torturers. History teaches this over n over!<<

--Great way of putting it, Alice. Looking at the Israeli-Palestinian and Jihad vs. the West problem, that describes very well what all sides have been doing. But how do you tell the Inquisitors that the devil is using their hands and tongues? They look at the blood on their hands and say, "See what you made us do!"

Dear M - It really does seem like a hopeless task. I think I have shared the exp I had while watching the news some 10yrs ago n sighing "WHAT CN ONE PERSON do?? n I heard my Teacher answer: 'That's the whole point! It can only be done 1x1x1x1", When I wrote it down I realized that 1x1x1x1 ad infinitum = ONE!

Since then I have applied Rupert Sheldrake's 'morphic resonance' as a hopeful possibility. I have met RS on sev occasions. We both lect at the ITS Conf in Bombay. He is a biologist who has proposed a new theory of evolution based on advances being made by species wh they reach a certain tipping pt due to the mass of critters reaching it. All of a sudden, the entire species evolves. The most familiar ex = The 100th Monkey story.I sugg u google him. Rupert spent sev years in India with Bede Griffiths who was also at the Conf. As was Fritjof Capra, the physicist. Since then I believe they have co-authored a bk w/Brother Steindl-Rast. I feel blessed in having met n co-taught with all three of them. The impact of those 3 men on world consc is immeasurable!

Applied to humanity, it means that each individual's consciousness contributes to the collective n any one of us in struggling to withdraw our Shadow fr the coll Shadow might be the one to change us all for the better.

I liken this to Jesus' parable of the Widow's Mite.

This concept adds dignity n responsibility to each person trying to bring more understanding, compassion, n conviction of interconnection w/the world, within him/herself n realizing that it matters! it counts n adds up! We here around this fire n hopefully other hidden grps ar the world may be making a difference. So, in we are n on we must!

Darkness in and of itself - as far as I know - cannot put out light n Jung even says that to find light w/in ourselves we have to search thru our own darkness.

So despite the horrors confronting us n a great needless loss of life, progress is being made. One cannot stop an Age to come - it is on the astronomical menu!

I hope this helps a bit.

love

ao

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>Darkness in and of itself - as far as I know - cannot put out light n Jung even >says that to find light w/in ourselves we have to search thru our own darkness.

Dear Alice,

I agree that we must all search within our own darkness and something I've learned in this process is that the darkness is a place of unimaginable fecundity and creativity. Although we tend to equate darkness and negativity with something undesirable I think our most important duty is to discover that without it we would never really see the light. You know, that fish swimming in the water thing. But I don't believe its only purpose is just to provide contrast in order to elucidate but to show itself as something with an equal purpose to that of the light.

Of course, y'all knew that. *G*

Blissings,

Sam

Don't believe everything you think. ~ Bumper StickerMany of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view. ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi Choose your illusion carefully. ~ UnknownWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ C.G. Jung