Between the aware and the unconscious, the thoughts has put up a swing. ~ Rumi
For the previous 4 weeks, I led a course on the shadow, a time period coined by psychiatrist Carl Younger that refers to all of the elements of our thoughts that dwell in “the darkish,” unseen by the ego thoughts. Non secular apply requires that we deliver consciousness to bear on our shadow with a view to turn into absolutely awake and conscious.
With out this work, our thoughts acts from an unconscious, computerized sample that inflicts struggling on ourselves and others. People mission their emotions, seeing the surface world because the supply of their ache. Human historical past has numerous examples of leaders committing genocide in an effort to remove that which they don’t like in themselves. As a substitute of eliminating their ignorance, they remove these they create as “different.”
Each second is a chance to turn into extra conscious. Shadow work provides a few of the more difficult moments on the hero’s journey, but it surely units the course to turn into radically free. Rising consciousness illuminates our genuine Self, reclaims our energy, and opens us as much as give up into the boundless love and pleasure on the coronary heart of existence.
Between the aware and the unconscious, the thoughts has put
up a swing:
all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these
two bushes,
and it by no means winds down.
Angels, animals, people, bugs by the million, additionally the
wheeling solar and moon;
ages go by, and it goes on.
Every little thing is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fireplace,
and the key one slowly rising a physique.
Kabir noticed that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant
for all times.
~ Kabir, The Enlightened Coronary heart, edited by Stephen Mitchell
