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two kinds of shadow

Posted January 4th, 2012 by Charles Bowling in notes from a sign reader

 
Hi All,
 
In another thread Joe, Layman, and others are engaged in an excellent conversation on shadow -among other issues. It brought to mind something from my archives, here is an abridged version of it:
 
It may be useful to consider that there are two basic forms of shadow; those elements that we are born with and those that we currently acquire; they can be thought of as either lunar or solar, respectively.
 
Simply put solar shadow is that part of the psyche that acts as a repository of repressed elements, commonly known as the sub-conscious. Generally, when the contracted self comes across some element of its behavior that it considers not being able to stand the light of day, it tucks it away, hides it from view, and then does what it can to forget that it has done so. It's analogous perhaps to sweeping dirt under a rug. But as noted elsewhere it hasn't gone away, it makes itself known as we trip over something; over an occasion that has high emotive content.
 
Reversing the process is called de-repression; a procedure that can be described as a forensic science of the psyche. But let's be candid, de-repression is not always a pretty process, and to do so we must be willing to face whatever negativity it was that caused us to bury the contents in the first place.
 
Lunar shadow on the other hand is stuff we are born with, and most likely represent the accumulated effects of more than one lifetime. (This could be thought of as soul life, including a thread of continuity that spans multiple-occasions or incarnations.)
 
Sometimes this is thought of as soul print, a sort of stamp that's placed on us as we enter into manifestation. It's partly in our DNA, partly in epi-genetics, and partly in the more subtle realms, which taken together give rise to our predispositions. It's a vast study. But if we are to become more integrally informed we need the freedom that comes from successfully dealing with two kinds of shadow.
 
-Charles

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Old Mother Hubbard

Posted January 4th, 2012 by Layman Pascal

So we should be asking ourselves: 

  • How does a person, in a practical sense, distinguish Lunar Shadow from viable, unique personal patterning that is inherited through neuro-genetic, subtle and other pre-embodied patterns of behavioural information?  
  •  What approaches to self-processing are powerful or flexible enough to work both Solar and Lunar shadow material?

Scientology, for all its obvious conspiratorial shenanigans & abusive potentials, is very good at articulating the need to "clear" the "reactive memory" of this life and then extend the process into the longer, wider ranges of pre-birth memory.  Their protocols for de-sensitization and guided attention are clearly insufficient (or at least far too narrow) but it may give us a perverse pause to consider that they are our kinfolk in addressing this issue of two-shadows.

 

Thanks, I've been...

Layman Pascal

 

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