🌒 shadow

Carl 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.

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

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Shadow work is essential to avoid being pulled into mass-induced psychosis or online outrage cycles. Nervous system regulation is equally imperative for the spiritual warrior.

Staying regulated in both body and mind is the first line of defense against possession by collective egregores, for dysregulation creates the cracks through which they enter... See more

You can see mass formation psychosis throughout history in political ideologies from far left to far right, such as Communist, Fascist, and totalitarian regimes that have resulted in the murder of millions of people.

All the while, masses of people supporting these regimes were hypnotized automatons carrying out and supporting the agenda

Jung warned that when individuals fail to confront their own shadow and inner opposites and conflicts, they become vulnerable to projecting those unconscious contents onto other people and the external world.

When this happens collectively, it can lead to what he called mass psychosis, a breakdown of individual consciousness and reasoning, and a de... See more

I call it my adolescent romantic New Age days, like a little kid who thinks they know everything, or the romantic wishful thinking phase with all the positive projections, when you have a crush and don’t see the shadow in the other person because it is all overlaid with your own soul/anima projections.