🌒 shadow
It Is the Devil, Bearing Beneath His Two Wings the Seven Deadly Sins (1888), Odilon Redon

Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists.
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Philosophical Words from Around the World:
Chiaroscuro, Italian.
(With thanks to Matt Haig, who introduced me to this term during a conversation for an upcoming newsletter.)
Jonny Thomsonsubstack.comIn Zen, there’s a saying: When you point at another, three fingers point back at you. What you see in others - especially what triggers or disgusts you - is often an unrecognized fragment of yourself. Judgment reveals where you are still asleep. Every time you condemn another, you are projecting a shadow you have not yet integrated. The moment you... See more
The Mirror of Judgment
How to use Tamas - Befriend Your Darkness
youtube.comthe dark has always been a teacher for me, more honest than any light-chasing ever was.
it’s not just where the fear lives, it’s where the soul speaks.
thank you for naming this, Morgan. đź–¤
> the dark is one of our greatest teachers. it houses our shadows and... See more
Alexandra Winteravensubstack.comdo you ever wonder why ascension has been sold to the masses?
why everything is about “raise your vibration,” “align with your higher self,” “reach 5D consciousness”, “transcend your ego”? why the spiritual goal always seems to be up?
I do. and honestly, it feels like another... See more
Alexandra Winteravensubstack.comCarl Jung explains it :
“Well, it's true. If we understand the process of valuation as an instinct in man, as a preconscious fact in the human unconscious that produces gold, then that is the treasure.... See more
That’s why it is always symbolically expressed as the treasure guarded by the dragon or as the precious stone, the hidden jewel in the cave, at the