Originally Posted by
Mysteryhunter
Thomas Moore in The Care of the Soul states that, "The person we choose to be, ... automatically creates a dark double -- the person we choose not to be."
Dr. Carl Jung recognized the danger of repressing ones shadow side, and recommended confronting the nether-regions of our psyches.
primarily through dream work - was a way of achieving healthy psychological equilibrium.
Has anyone tried to notice, or work with & dance with your own shadow while Lucid dreaming.
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions." [excerpt from EMBODYING SPIRIT, pg. 131-133]