Spiritual development can only proceed confidently after psychological development has been mostly secured." - Ken Wilber
The Healer in me couldn't agree more!
Live and learn. . .I learned that people want to be "spiritual" - period. . .
I learned (from them) that anyone who threatens to expose the shadow-self's tactics, must be rejected.
We get it, but don't be surprised when one day you will realize we don't "judge" your shadow/pain. . .I/We IDENTIFY with it!
Sri Aurobindo writes: "This Yoga is a spiritual battle; its very attempt raises all sorts of adverse forces and one must be ready to face difficulties; suffering, reverses of all sorts in calm unflinching spirit."
We're all in this together. . .Some of us are just more 'advanced'.
If I wasn't "calm", but instead (was) filled with bitter resentment at how some 'spiritual' people have treated me over the years, I would be an emotional mess. . .
I LOVE being me because I'm nice:)
I'm nice, even when the wrathful Yamantaka wants to have her say.
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In my blog from: May 2,09 "They Don't See the Hand"
I wrote (snippets):
The reptilian brain is a master od interpreting all stress as a life or death struggle for survival, disguised as panic and spiky-sharp as claw ferocity, always at ready to defend its own existence -- and there is nothing logical about that.
The Shadow knows how to slam shut the door of Reason, bec. that's its job!
Talk therapy can't reach the shadow because the shadow has a (irrational) mind of its own. = end quotes
I learned that deep catharsis work, works wonders. . .
Because I'm plugged (via Crown chakra) to Shakti energy, I witnessed first hand how very painful and fearful those energies are (during hands-on energy healing work), and why would I want to 'judge' someones pain!?
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It's good to be "nice" = In my blog from: May 20/09 "Imprisoned by Resistance?"
I write (snippets):
"Every act of kindness strenghtens the 'quality' of ones Soul. Every time we act to expose the false and the shallow, the Light of (I AM) immortality shines brighter in our Soul.
By contrast, individuals who are driven by unconscious impulses, compulsion, obsessions, by defensive posturings, live by the strenght of their shadow nature. Even though they are born of the same God-spirit Source, they act/live from a low ebb' of consciousness.
The longer the inner shadow is pushed away from the light of Reason, the stronger the inner-tension and anxiety. Thing is, the tension feels so normal the individual is not even aware of it! But this is why such individual is always at ready to pounce with hostility, with an irrational dislike at someone without even a shred of provocation!
"...the real course of manifest historical human development is not from unconscious Heaven to conscious Hell to conscious Heaven, but rather from unconscious Hell to conscious Hell to conscious Heaven." - Ken Wilber, from The Eye of Spirit
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Unconscious Hell? = no one is born with a (karmic) clean slate. We bring to our life-plate our Soul's not yet 'realised' potential. That's why "waking up" is painful.
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In the third companion blog from May 18 of that year,
"Imprisoned by the Collective System?" (quote)
Vulnerable and alone, infinitely at the mercy of whatever was to happen, I know it was not my will, not my love, but Her will, Her love, that there was some meaning to my life, infinitely beyond anything I had ever imagined, and that my delicate body - in all its ugliness and all its beauty - was the temple through which I had come to know Her on this earth.." - Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin A Process of Psychological Transformation.
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We are here together co-creating and co-evolving.
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In the blog below, I didn't include the link to Lisa's talk because it was not yet available. If interested, Lisa is introduced to the Full Circle at around the 8 minute mark.
http://www2.crossroads.ca/fullcircle/player?vidID=22771
For the record? I heard Lisa say in another video "we don't roar at men, we roar with them".
