How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
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How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
After we consider a new paradigm for understanding our inner and outer life—the holographic model of the universe—we can begin taking action, applying what we have learned to unconceal the hidden faces of our dark side.
Deborah Ford • The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial intelligenc
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The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think. T... See more
Mary Martin • IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
Jung explained that our shadow constitutes the parts of ourselves we reject or avoid looking at because these aspects don’t fit with the way we’d like to see ourselves. He explained that we each have in us the forces for the greatest good and also the greatest evil. We have the potential to commit the same horrible atrocities that we see in the wor
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