FLASHBACK: In this episode, Bernhard and Laura discuss how we can face the collective shadow material coming up in the world with an open heart, the interrelationship between the personal and collective shadow, and they give suggestions on how to engage in the necessary shadow work.

https://veilofreality.com/2021/10/06/facing-the-collective-shadow-with-an-open-heart-tcm-69-part-1/

Yikes...Los Angeles schools double down on covid restrictions and mandate the vaccine for all students (with no exceptions) and n95 type like masks (even outside) for all children.

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The biggest obstacles in “The Great Work” are excuses, rationalizations, and all forms of lies to the self that keep people attached to their conditioned ego personality, desires, stories, and suffering. It usually takes the form of blaming external circumstances for “why” they can’t do it, “it’s not the right time”, etc. as they keep indulging in their weaknesses and self-defeating patterns and keep identifying with their personality, mistaking it for the true self. It is particularly dominant in people who are very head-centric as their thinking mind becomes their prison and turns against them.

All esoteric traditions have pointed out this “mental trap”:

"A dangerous habit is constant self-justification. When this becomes strong in the seeker, it is impossible to turn him in this part of the being to the right consciousness and action because at each step his whole preoccupation is to justify himself. His mind rushes at once to maintain his own idea, his own position or his own course of action.
This he is ready to do by any kind of argument, sometimes the most clumsy and foolish or inconsistent with what he has been protesting the moment before [but not obvious to him], by any kind of mis-statement or any kind of device. This is a common misuse, but non the less a misuse of the thinking mind; but it takes in him exaggerated proportions and so long as he keeps to it, it will be impossible for him to see or live the Truth"

- Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Yoga


"If man does not accept his situation and, in particular, his inner state as it appears to him, thanks to brief illuminations from the consciousness of the real ‘I’— if he is obstinate against all evidence, justifying his Personality by protecting himself behind logic, legitimacy and justice, he will then turn his back on the path of Access, and thrust himself further into the wilderness. Nobody can reach the path of Access to the Way [of union with the Divine], without first passing through an interior bankruptcy; a moral collapse [disillusionment]."

- Boris Mouravieff, Gnosis

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Creating my reality over here 😂

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"Without risk there is no courage. Without fear there is no courage. Without challenging circumstances, there is no courage.

To be courageous is to be brave and to persevere in that bravery, moving toward our edge in a particular circumstance, navigating the discomfort of doing so with resolve. However much we might bend with the challenge of this, we don’t collapse. We may want to give up, but we don’t. Though no one else may see or recognize our struggle, we go on, even if we’re on our hands and knees.

Courage doesn’t always look like courage—at least as it’s commonly portrayed—but when we’re being courageous, we don’t care how we look. We just keep going, again and again finding the optimal pace.

To have courage is not only to have heart, but also guts, intestinal fortitude, spine. As such, courage is about taking embodied action no matter how much our knees might be shaking. And there’s a kind of love implicit in courage, the love of our own integrity, our standing up for what really matters. However small the impact of our courage may be, it nonetheless radiates out, touching more than we can imagine.

Wanting to be seen as courageous is very different from being courageous. Many have a vicarious relationship with courage, especially spectacular courage. But courage is mostly far from spectacular, often taking shape in the form of activities that may seem mundane to others, not worthy of more than a fleeting glance."

- Robert Augustus Masters

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The splitting of humanity at full force. Decentralize, reject, and create something new. Don't try to "save" or change the old world/system. Let.it.go. 👊🔥⚔️

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“Truth is a fire. Incandescent and enriching. Ferocious and annihilating. Do you know how to hold it in your hands? Can you afford to bring it into your life? It burns everything it comes into contact with. Genuine things are enlivened by this burning. False things are devastated by it.

If a person's life has become too disingenuous, too compromised, too fake, then the scenery of home, work, relationships, perceptions, and aspirations becomes like desiccated parchment. Introducing a living flame into this tinderbox will lead to spectacular disintegration. Mental and emotional super-meltdowns; agonizing catastrophes of no value to most.

So, if you ever wonder why people won't accept the truth of something - even when the irrefutable reality is right in front of them - this is one reason. Truth burns down lies. Eventually, all of them.”

- Neil Kramer

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Listening to the CDC’s constantly shifting goal posts be like 😂

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Well said

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This is how many people are in Ottawa Canada with the truckers right now.. historic

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So true these days

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Great interpretation by Jordan Peterson based on esoteric Christianity and Jungian Psychology.

https://youtu.be/k9ZE5o_54p8