Perspective Shift:

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t

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According to Carl Jung, The shadow self (or the dark side of the Self) is your animal nature that lives behind your social persona. This includes the usual suspects like our fear, anxieties, envy, lust but also positives like instinct, intuition, compassion, and spirituality. The less you know it and own it, the denser, deeper, and more... See more

In my work with LUX, I've experienced: The crystal-clear light of one's own essence doesn't shy away from darkness. On the contrary – it transforms shadows through complete acceptance into wisdom.

Being so much a part of who we are, we are yet terrified of the shadow. We feel that it will pull us down back into our savage past, and our hard-won battle for the light of consciousness will have been for nothing. We make desperate attempts to deny the shadow, employing a whole range of ego-defenses for this purpose. Projection, splitting,... See more

Spiritual reality is all-pervasive; personal identity dissolves and becomes part of That Which Is Everything. The profound sense of Being Nothing and existing in non-existence is as close to the Source as we’re going to get. Yet, if we’re planning a two-way ticket, we’ll be returning to society searching for our place as people in our human form.

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