In this episode 9 chapters
- Where It Was, I Shall Be
Masters and Wilber define the shadow as everything we've disowned, including the gold we project onto others.
- When the Shadow Has You
This chapter covers the signs that disowned shadow is running your life, from disproportionate reactions to forced positivity, and what it costs.
- Reactivity and Pain
Reactivity works like a Geiger counter that picks up activated shadow, as when we project our inner controller onto a boss.
- The Past and the Body
Split-off shadow stays the age it was when it split off, sometimes reaching back to birth, but a few minutes of history is often enough to work with it.
- Critics, Shame and Guilt
They give exercises for facing the shaming inner critic and telling it apart from healthy conscience.
- Fear Is Excitement in Drag
After laying out the elements of emotional intimacy, they look at fear as a self-contraction that is physiologically close to excitement.
- Anger as Moral Fire
Anger protects our boundaries and is different from hostility.
- What Sex Is Really For
Much of our sexuality carries non-sexual needs, and childhood wounds often become eroticized between "consenting adults."
- Spirituality's Shadow
Spiritual bypassing shows up as fake equanimity, fear of anger and idiot compassion, and spiritual emergencies have to be handled with care.
Exploring the full spectrum of disassociated shadow material in our lives (pain, shame, guilt, dark emotions, sexual shadows, spiritual shadows, etc.) and the ways that we can begin cleaning up and reintegrating these splintered pieces of our psyche, Robert Augustus Masters talks to Ken Wilber about his recent audio course, Knowing Your Shadow. This dialogue stands alone as one of the most comprehensive discussions of the shadow you can find anywhere, and makes for a wonderful companion to the Knowing Your Shadow audio course.
ABOUT THE KNOWING YOUR SHADOW AUDIO COURSE
“Why are the people around me so difficult?” “Why do I keep getting in situations like this?” Our shadow side, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, contains the emotions and desires we’ve disowned, neglected, or hidden from ourselves. If not skillfully worked with, it can easily direct our lives on every level.
With Knowing Your Shadow, this acclaimed psychotherapist and author shows us how to illuminate and wisely engage with the endarkened aspects of who we are. Join him to explore in depth the areas where shadow work can most benefit us, including:
- Discovering and cultivating intimacy with the endarkened aspects of yourself
- Identifying and healing your core wounds
- Working effectively with anger, fear, shame, guilt, and other difficult emotions
- Understanding how your shadow influences those around you, often beyond conscious awareness
- Guided practices, meditations, and exercises for developing more authenticity and wholeness in your personal and workplace relationships, your sexuality, and your spiritual path
Our moods and relationships often seem to have a life of their own. Knowing Your Shadow offers exceptional support for taking charge of your life at a deep level, providing expert guidance and instruction to discover and make wise use of what lies hidden or otherwise neglected within us.
Learn More About:
- Becoming intimate with your shadow
- Relating wisely to shame and guilt
- Ending your suffering by entering your pain
- Exploring the presence of your past
- Freeing yourself from your inner critic
- Working with fear, anger, and other darker emotions
- Bringing sex out of the shadows—how we eroticize our unmet needs
- The signs of spiritual bypassing
- Healthy spirituality
- Becoming intimate with all that you are
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About Robert Masters
Robert Augustus Masters, PhD, is a relationship expert, a spiritual teacher, and a psychospiritual guide, with a doctorate in psychology. He is the cofounder, with his wife Diane, of the Masters Center for Transformation (MCT), a school featuring relationally-rooted psychospiritual work devoted to deep healing and fully embodied awakening. A substantial portion of his work involves training MCT practitioners. He is also the author of thirteen books, including Transformation Through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.
About Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is a preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development. He is an internationally acknowledged leader, founder of Integral Institute, and co-founder of Integral Life. Ken is the originator of arguably the first truly comprehensive or integrative world philosophy, aptly named “Integral Theory”.
