Art of Shadow Work

Part of new-age lip service is to sign off a conversation by saying love & light while being oblivious of the shadow. I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole, said Dr Carl Jung. So what is the dark side of a polarized new-ager because a coin has two sides?

In the second verse of the second stanza of his poem titled, "The Genius Of The Crowd" Charles Bukowski gave us some insight into the flip side of the nature of the proponents of love & light.

He recited that /the best at hate are those who preach love/ and in the last stanza, he warned suffering humanity to be aware of this kind of preacher because their hatred will be perfect like a shining diamond like a knife like a mountain like a tiger and like a hemlock their finest art.

Upon the destruction of the wisdom of the wise and the frustration of the intelligence of the intelligent, what's left is Yahuah's rational meaning of love rather than a self-taught and emotionally based one where everything goes. For wholeness to be accomplished as well, the path of the heart warrior can be taken in the process of doing shadow work.

A great analogy that enlightens the mind about shadow work is to imagine your mind as a house and a burglar has broken in. Your motive shall be to grab a flashlight and find where he is. The burglar represents the dark thoughts in the psyche. So the practitioner aims to capture and transform them then annex them into the conscious mind.

Tale of Two Wolves

This idea that you have so much goodness in you that you can speak your desires into the universe, and god will appear from a jinni lamp and grant you your wishes because you are such a noble person created to be a winner and champion is a Sheol-bred lie. That is because inside man exists two wolves at war with one another. There's a good one and a bad one. The one who wins this battle is the one you feed. 

In the light of the abovementioned native American folktale, St. Paul examined his inner experience and saw another law in his cravings and desires, warring against the principle of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the rule of the flesh that is in his appetites and wants. 

In conclusion to this observation, he exclaimed, "wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]?." 

That exclamation encapsulates humanity's occulted struggle to understand what they do, despite expressing the goodness they possess and communicating with the universe to grant their wish. For what they want, this they do not do; but what they hate, this they do [and yield to their human nature, their worldliness]. 

Shall legalism i.e., keeping the law while ignoring the law-giver rescue you from this body of death? I beg to differ. I with my mind am enslaved to the law of Yahuah, but with my flesh, I am enslaved to the law of missing the mark. 

A Good Name

In the illustrious metaphysical journey, the apostate shall be taken captive by either of the following hollow philosophies:

One of them shall misinform him that he has a meat body driven by a soul. The other shall claim he is a spiritual being having a human experience. 

There is hope for the truth seekers in the new-age movement because the word of Yahuah is the sword of the spirit specially designed to set the captives free. 

For the philosopher whose mind inclines towards the religion of solitude, the capacity of his exercised forebrain to perform critical thinking shall enable him to demolish erroneous beliefs and cement rational faiths in his psyche.

So in the sacred writings, man is informed that The Dust of the Ground + The Breath of Life = Living Soul.

Therefore all human beings are living souls. Not just the enigmatic dwelling within. The new-agers are also in bed with the sinister Hollyweird because they produced a film for children called Soul. The notion advocated here is that a soul is a conscious immaterial substance that resides in our mortal bodies and then flies away when we die. 

Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], even when he is old, he shall not depart from it.

Enticing Words

In the event of your demise, the clergyman shall say, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Being a man of the cloth, it is obvious he means man returns to the dust of the earth from which he was created.

In the pantheism worldview, cosmologists have concluded that nearly all the elements in the human body were made in a star and many have come through several supernovas.

As a result, the poetic generalization that we are all "made of stardust" and therefore "one with the universe" has emerged. This erroneous notion is of course consistent with the New Age movement, which beliefs in mystical ties between humans and nature.

Man—in the form of Adam—was indeed made from the “dust” of the ground. However, the Earth and its component materials were created before the stars, not from the stars (Genesis 1:16) —see Genesis 1.

Christian Criticism of Psychotherapy

Carl Gustav Jung had "spirit guides," one of them was known as "Philemon." Philemon exhibited excellent insight from a psychological standpoint. To others, Philemon could be a figment of Jung's imagination or proof of his insanity. Rather than being insane, Jung felt he had stepped into the footsteps of ancient priests and others who were thought to have encountered the divine. But the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.

There are only two kingdoms: light and darkness. The spirit of the Lord rests in the kingdom of light. Carl Gustav Jung was a psychologist so it would be befitting for the spirit of counsel to guide him but a spirit guide named Philemon gave him counsel. As a result, in 1916, Jung received the best-documented assistance from demons: Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, or "The Seven Sermons to the Dead penned by Basilides in Alexandria," "transcribed by Carl Gustav Jung." Jung claimed that the beginning of the project was similar to possession since his home became haunted. With all the craziness going on,  Jung felt compelled to take action. "For God's sake, what in the world is this?" he exclaimed. "We have returned from Jerusalem, where we did not find what we sought," they shouted out in unison. The book was composed for three evenings, and as soon as he started writing, "the entire ghostly assemblage vanished." The room was silent, and the atmosphere cooled down. Sigmund accused Jung of plotting his demise. Jung came to believe that accusation after killing a hero in a dream whom he interpreted as Freud. Following that dream, Jung found himself on the verge of insanity, facing what he realized was a total psychotic breakdown in communication with demonic entities, spirit beings, and he picked up his spirit guide, Philemon, and it was from this background of mysticism and occultism that he developed his basic theories. This is the man that is honored and his theories are taught in seminaries, and our Christian schools, colleges, and universities and is the heart of inner healing. In Jungian depth psychology, inner healing works by visualizing your past archetype and your hero archetype coming alongside to deliver you from past traumas. If you're a Christian, your hero archetype would be Jesus. If you are a Catholic, it would be Mary. If you are Satanist, it would be Anton LaVey, and the healing works terrifically because the spirits make it so. But many will say to Jesus in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then He will profess unto them, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

In essence, Jung is regarded as the father of the New Age, giving a theoretical framework for channeling and other “New Age practices” but he was regrettably deceived for it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” This is the shadow of shadow work. Christ is the way the truth and the light. The light cannot be integrated with the shadow which vanishes when the former appears. A flame has no shadow. In the Father there is pure light. In Jungian psychology there is complexity and that is the mark of a doctrine of demons.