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  1. 1 hour ago, Solo Cultivator said:


    Also I assume you are under someones teachings? From your boomer attempt of mockery, you'd never be a master because you've asked your teacher questions and learned from them.

    I have no teachers so I learn everything online. And guess what, I can read multiple books, wikis, articles, blogs, etc simply by using the internet. You boomers need to get with the time. 


    sorry about my age it’s a curse I know

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  2. 9 hours ago, Solo Cultivator said:


    This Sovereign notices your doubt. Let me impart some insights and perhaps it may persuade you.
    Also no need to add the Lord to the Sovereign hehe, I am but a humble Sovereign.
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    The daoist energy body consists of the:
    Dantian (energy field)Dantian translates to field of elixir and is believed to be related to higher states of consciousness. Energy of the dantians passes up the spine and there are commonly three known dantians, which is the lower, middle, and upper dantian respectively. If you read my introductory post I had explained that I felt more dantians when practicing and that had allowed me to connect the chakra system to daoism. 
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    Jingluo (meridians) = Is the pathway of the qi and blood circulation (which has no relevancy here (maybe idk, the Nadi is similar to the merdians system i guess??)  but I wanted to impress the Juniors with my myriad of knowledge)

    Zangfu (organs) = Which is related to the 5 phases of transformation is heavily related to the chakra system further boosting my confidence in the chakra systems and the dantians connection to each other. (the link will take you to a site in which you can click the article and lead you to the .pdf that explains this in depth, highly suggest you read it Juniors)

     

     

    Your wisdom astonishes me - who but a true master could explain the Way by linking to Wikipedia and other people's websites?

     

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, Solo Cultivator said:

    Oh and I almost forgot, 
    This Sovereign will have to admit here though,
    even I am not to sure on this as I am a bit iffy on this but I'll explain anyways in a short concise way.
     
    The red, yellow, and blue has to do with masculine affinities

    and orange, green, indigo has to do with feminine affinities

    as in it's naturally strengthens and just by living..


    any thoughts?


    I bow before thee sovereign lord , but ask what apart from labeling the chakras yin and Yang what is Daoist about this?

     

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  4. 12 minutes ago, steve said:

     

    Another option is to email the file to yourself.

    This generally gives you the option to resize before sending.

    A little extra work but effective if all else fails.


    emailing yourself is the first sign of internet madness 

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  5. 16 hours ago, Keith108 said:

    Just morning practice today. Spent a nice evening with the fam, watching a movie by the fireplace.

     

    Morning:
    108 bows

    Sangha practice (3x30 sitting, some chanting, and tea after practice)

     

    🙏


    hey did we give you permission to slack off in the evening?😄

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  6. 10 hours ago, zerostao said:

    2019, pretty much entirely, was my main shadow year. In my ppj; I have that thread currently hidden. The experience was deep on another level, multidimensional, intersecting, all kinds of elements involved. 2019 was a monumental year for me in life altering events, All of it overshadowed by the Shadow. Remaining fully conscious of that, recognizing everyone else's (it was a small town) conscious efforts with their shadow, at a place where seemingly, shadows ran from themselves, and towards themselves as well. 

    A couple of things, for now, Jung spoke of, he did mention devil in one passage, and whatever idea you happen to have of "devil" whether a real entity, religious or not, some art motif, something psychological, whatever your notion happens to be, you are going to deal with it, in one form or another at a deep personal level. Up close, eye to eye.

    Jung says that keeping something inner situational unconscious leads it showing up outside of us, fateful. 

    The OP cites Jung saying this again and again, just worded differently. 

    This aspect of shadow work, in its workings, I found of utmost curiosity and undeniable. 

     

    So, five years after, maybe enough time and distance have passed for me to take another look at it, for me personally, I still have some shadow work going on, but nothing like 2019.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    "I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines
    Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves"

     

     

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  7. 13 hours ago, Bindi said:


    With inexplicable tendencies like this I often wonder if a past life is at play, where some ‘power’ was gained but not the full circuit so to speak. Perhaps you sat holed up in a dark cave, or unclothed in a graveyard eating human flesh, etc etc, but this is not what I mean by the shadow self. In your case I agree this is not the way to go, and I see (I think) what you might mean about the enchantment of an illusory power. 
     

    To me the shadow self holds pain and it is hard to approach, it holds no allure as pain is not alluring generally speaking, but it must be grappled with. Thanks for explaining what you meant 🙂

     

     

    Perhaps then the Egyptian shade and the Jungian shadow are not the same thing.

     

    I don't think that my tendancies are inexplicable - it's just the people are different and have different emphases.

     

     

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  8. 8 hours ago, Bindi said:

     

    “There is a risk of over identifying with it because it seems powerful in a way - but you have to realise that its power is just part of the general mirage of power itself (if that makes sense).” This sentence made me think you were trying to keep it at arms length, because a. you don’t want to over-identify with it, and b. you included it in the general ‘mirage of power.’ 

     

     

    I agree with what you say above. 

     


    I fully agree that completely yin would be a mistake, but, I think initially yin needs to be overemphasised because it is overly subjected to repression in our society, while Yang is overemphasised. The interesting question for me right now is what fully integrated looks like. 
     

     

     

    The thing is for me - the allure of the dark side is strong.  I guess for many its just disturbing and something they would like to stay away from - but I feel the opposite.  For me the ordinary world of the day/light is oppressive.  If I gave in to my natural tendency I would stray deep into the dark.  Maybe that's why I like Ancient Egypt and tombs and wotnot, I don't know.  But what i found was that the allure carries with it an enchantment of 'power' which is illusory.  It has power in its own realm - but brought back into the daylight it is nothing.  So maybe I am a bit weird.  But this is what I was talking about.

     

     

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  9. 18 minutes ago, Jenn said:

    Are you on windows 10 or 11?

    The default photo app can do it: open the photo on your computer, then at the top, there are three dots ( ... ) there is an option to resize.  Drop the percentage a bit or changing the quality from high to medium should do the trick.  It will show you the new size at the bottom before you choose OK, so you can play until it is under the limit 😊.

    If your on apple, no idea, I'm allergic to digital fruit.


    apple OS X … Mac mini and iPhone


  10. 45 minutes ago, steve said:

     

    For now, I recommend you resize images or link to a url.

    Making changes to permissible upload size is above my pay grade.

    I will tag @Trunk and @sean to see if they want to weigh in on the question.

     

     

    OK I will try to work out how to do that.


  11. 8 hours ago, Nungali said:

     

    I think that depends on ones 'psychic schemata '   ..... how you view , or what arragement best describes your 'self' and what are the constituent parts and how do they relate .

     

    For example many see 'spirit' as a component of the whole and see variance in how it relates to the whole . Can other parts 'stifle' its development (in the self )  or the  expression of it in the self ?

     

    Some examples of what I mean :

     

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    http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/overview/index.htm#components

     

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_soul

     

    Then again others see soul and spirit as something different , so it also depends on what you mean by 'spirit' .  Essentially 'spirit' is the 'animating force of the essential nature ' ie.   what keeps a daisy alive and keeps it 'within archetype'  /  form .

     

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    Woah sexy diagram - not sure I agree with it all though, but hey.

     

    I think the basic idea is we are composite beings until we integrate - then we become 'selves' in the true sense.  Until then we are just a bundle of stuff and inconsistencies (!)

     

     

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  12. 9 hours ago, Bindi said:

     

    How can the shadow self whatever it is be integrated if you’re deliberately holding it at arms length?  But perhaps it also depends on the status you give to the shadow self, ranging from it’s just a block to it’s a negative aspect and the polar opposite it’s a powerful consciousness within us related to the Yin aspect that needs to be integrated but remains as a “potent and creative force”.

     

    I don't think it is possible to hold it at arms length - I don't think I implied one should do so did I?  I think that most people deny its existence but that it still operates within them.  But that is provided we take the Yin aspect definition and not the negative block one.  People on here seem to use either.  In my case I was comparing it to the Egyptian 'shade' which is an aspect of a person.  The collection of negative blocks was called either Rerek or Apep (depending on whether it was seen as a kind of host of inimical forces or as one negative being).

     

    I think perhaps our ordinary consciousness (ego?) reacts to the presence of the shadow self in a negative way, because the ego is built on defensive positions about ourselves as socially acceptable beings and does not like the idea of a darker side to our nature - something which is unrestrained and carries a certain danger (?).  Our culture reinforces the light versus dark narrative I guess - and this gets mixed with good versus bad.

     

    9 hours ago, Bindi said:

     

    It sounds like a Buddhist perspective to me, everything is a mirage so this too must be a mirage. What if the shadow self is an aspect of the true self though, then it would be pretty weird to think it was a mirage. Would you deliberately ignore and neutralise a potent creative force? What would you gain from that? 

     

     

     

    Nothing - I wasn't saying that.  And I don't know what the Buddhist terminology for these ideas would be - but perhaps it would be something to do with shunyata.  Not sure because I am still trying to understand what Jung meant anyway.  I think the idea is to integrate the dark and the light isn't it?  I see the integrated being as the source of power and not the dark exclusively - it would be as much of a mistake to go completely Yin as it would be to go completely Yang (?) - do you agree?  Perhaps mirage was the wrong word - what I meant was that to go completely Yin would give a feeling of power which is not equal to the Tai Chi integration ...maybe.   I'm not being dogmatic just searching for the right terms.

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  13. 44 minutes ago, Nungali said:

     

    I have been meaning to ask .... tell me about this site  ^  ?

     

    Is it modern , a reconstruction ?    Or ...

     

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    its called almendres near evora in Portugal dated to between 6th and 4 th millennia BC  - very impressive and large stone circle

     

    google almendres cromlech on wiki

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  14. I think there may be a fundamental difference in the Egyptian concept of shade and the shadow self - if it is true that the idea is that it is completely destroyed.  In Egyptian thought opposites are resolved and the ‘foe’ is overcome but assimilated rather than destroyed - as in this quote from the ritual of the divine cult:

     

    ’ and the power of Set hides itself straightway before the eye of Horus which seizes it, brings it, and sets it upon the seat of Horus’

     

    in other words the wholistic awareness of Horus assimilates the power of Set.   
     

     

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  15. 5 minutes ago, snowymountains said:

     

    Indeed this is true, as it is true that the shadow is still there, without them being consciously aware and it rules from the unconscious.

    Which in turn is a source of havoc in many ways but I'll keep it short and not expand.


    Please expand a little.


  16. 24 minutes ago, snowymountains said:

     

    The bigger risk is not being familiar with it, it is then that our shadow will rule us from our unconscious. Without integration, "the brighter the light, the darker the shadow" always applies.

     

    The goal is of course for the other parts to integrate the shadow, not for the shadow to integrate the other parts.

    Integration is a process too, doesn't happen overnight.

     

    The Anima/Animus are also concepts by Jung which are onto something big, typically work on these is right after work on the shadow. Within the context of dreamwork in specific, the associated dreams typically occur after meeting the shadow (and may re-occur in later times when there's a change in the Anima).


    Not being familiar or straightforward denial which probably the usual choice for  many.

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  17. There's quite a lot in Ancient Egypt about the shade or shadow as one of the aspects of a being.  Unfortunately as usual with the Egyptian stuff they mention it a lot without explaining what it is.  However it is clearly the part of us that relates to the dark rather than the light.

     

    I don't usually like Jungian stuff but on this occasion he is clearly on to something and I would say that for myself, facing into one's dark side is one of the first things that happens - and it is quite scary.  There is a risk of over identifying with it because it seems powerful in a way - but you have to realise that its power is just part of the general mirage of power itself (if that makes sense).

     

    Becoming unified or whole - a whole being - is an enormous task - until then we are made of parts.

     

     

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  18. 1 minute ago, Cobie said:


    The asking was perfectly alright by me.
    What I do not like is the quoting of a post that already was deleted.


    do you delete because you think your thoughts are not worth posting?  Cos I think this place thrives on everyone sharing their ideas freely.