@gerardkedzior4988 Oh, I am sorry to hear that. I hope things have gotten a little better for you. As for me, what I was taking from the OP's quote was more figurative or metaphorical. That I never took any chances or risks. That I never stepped past anxiety, fear, or "The comfort zone". That I never tried to find out who I was and what I could have been capable of. Hiding in the darkness instead of stepping out into the light. I threw away my life, and it is not coming back, since you only get one shot at it. Much like the heartbreaking scene in the movie, "Scent of a Woman": "What life?! I got no life! I'm in the dark, here!"
@Hassan Droubi yes. Deprogramming is hard. It's better to reprogram by programming something new it will unprogram the old. Force it out. Unless your talking aboit healing trauma. Then that takes watching your triggers.
@Hassan Droubi “[The normal man] may indeed thrive in the surroundings [of his society], but only up to the point where he and his milieu meet with disaster for transgressing the laws [of reality and human nature]. He will share the general collapse to exactly the same extent as he was adjusted to the previous situation. Adjustment is not adaptation; Adaptation requires far more than merely going along smoothly with the conditions of the moment. It requires observance of laws more universal than the immediate conditions of time and place. The very adjustment of the normal [individual] is his limitation.” Carl Jung, Psychological Types
Nothing, and I mean _nothing,_ has done more to help me progress and redeem my life than the pursuit of befriending that which is shadow in myself. Every time I go deeper, I understand more. Truly a noble journey to love your enemy, the enemy inside you.
Yes. Great comment. Maybe a year ago it occurred to me that the commandment to love and pray for our enemies could also apply to loving and praying for our internal enemies. Perhaps I'll reach a point where I realize that the only real enemies are the ones within me.
I faced a terrible dark night of the soul a few months ago brought about by a co worker asking me “are you ok?” Just like that my “mask” fell and years of repressed emotions came flooding out. The following weeks I went through a depression sorting through my deep wounds and pains that I was masking and came out of it enlightened. I no longer identify myself as who I once was, I’ve integrated my shadow and now am trying to learn to live with this new me. One without shame, anxiety, fear, etc,. It’s like cleaning out a room filled with filth and seeing the cleaned room for the first time. You just stand there asking “is that what the carpet looked like?” And wonder what will you do now. It truly is a scary experience…
I've been going through this process for a long time now. It's obviously been a very tumultuous and often traumatic experience, but it's been a more than worthwhile journey thus far. The hardest thing to come to terms with has been exactly what you described, about no longer seeing yourself as the person you thought you were. It's a very confronting but also disorienting feeling, to know that all your life you had seen yourself as someone you never were and never could be. However, that leaves you in a position to rebuild almost from scratch. From that I can honestly say I've learned more about myself in the last 5-6 years than in the previous forty odd.
One of the few channels that I actively am excited for when a video is released... as the popular saying goes.... When i see an Academy of Ideas video, I press Play!
One of the best channels, for sure… it’s so deep and wise that sometimes, in those dark moments, it casts too bright of a light on me, that makes me not click on it right away, because I fear it, I fear the responsibility it brings on me, I fear the inevitable exposure of my stupidity and flaws…so sometimes I click on that other dumb video standing besides on the YT page to escape it… but not today
@@pedroferreira2062 Giving a re-listen already. This quality narration allows me to stay in a constant state of self meditation; and self understanding that I find, is pivotal in the development of my psyche, character and the whole human process of self conceptualizing in general. What is the "self"?
You read like you know the script by heart. There are no spaces in your narration that allow the meanings of the words (ideas) to sink in for someone who hasnt read the script. Love your content tho.... just be nice to not have to keep rewinding.
True. "Where's your fear, there is your task" (Carl Jung). I did 1 year of IFS therapy and got closer to my shadow. It's difficult work as I had traumatic childhood but it's very rewarding. Shadow parts they have many qualities, energy, etc. They just need healing, they need to be approached with love and compassion. Our ego is often very scared of this work, of being overwhelmed by emotions (it once happened to me at the age of 19 where I experienced spiritual emergency/psychosis). So lesson learned, wounded Inner Child cannot be locked and forgotten. It will be finding ways to connect with you. It's up to you whether you want to connect with it and build a relationship. Individuation is necessary if we want to truly grow/mature.
Ya jung was an idiot. Had insights, but an idiot nonetheless. "You become more dry when you integrate water into your clothes" what kind of smooth brain believes this stuff.
Are you saying that learning about people and life is about understanding your dark side - without just being cynical , because people in reality have more darkness in them than light - which I suppose is survival skills ? Is this how you set about aiming for having a higher awareness or consciousness, the latter being something you are required to work toward and is acquired gradually , like most good things ? This is honestly a genuine question for anyone who knows , and can be bothered to reply ??
I have grown to love my shadow, I see some parts of it in others, and it makes me smile. If you listen carefully, to what others tell you, you get to know theirs. Because, they really want to unburden themselves. Peace be unto you.
When you get up in the morning, let the world wait. Defy it a little. First learn something to inspire you. Take a few moments to meditate upon it. And then you may plunge ahead into the darkness, full of light with which to illuminate it. ~ Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
@academyofideas Thank you infinitely, for bringing back into my perception that I am not just acting up but bravely bringing up effort through all failure and epiphany. Even in aspect that it hurts as much as I can bare. Have a week of wholeness, dear catalyst of completeness!
Thanks I agree that we should get this but this also going to bring people to better distinguish between crime, evil, and sin. So still judgement and punishment remains, and necessary. Pointing finger but at the context of justice, less about self criticsm
For anyone interested, BTS made an entire album called Map Of the Soul 7 that is all based on Carl Jung's concepts of the psyche and self. It's very deep and a real work of art. The Jungian concept of the Shadow is a re-occuring theme in many songs, lyrically and visually, like in their Black Swan music video. Their 3 rappers also each have a solo song on that album, written based on different Jungian concepts - * Intro : Persona by RM * Interlude: Shadow by Sugar * Outro: Ego by J-Hope The music vids for those 3 songs are titled "comeback trailer" If anyone wants to explore BTS's discography, highly recommend checking out the music reactor Anthony Ray - all his BTS reactions are great.
I’ve noticed when I fast suppressed thoughts, guilt anger, insensitivity arises. I don’t know if this helps with unveiling the shadow self, but with holding myself from pleasure for a period of time, allows me to really see what’s underneath me and what I’ve been avoiding and denying
For anyone interested, BTS made an entire album called Map Of the Soul 7 that is all based on Carl Jung's concepts of the psyche and self. It's very deep and a real work of art. The Jungian concept of the Shadow is a re-occuring theme in many songs, lyrically and visually, like in their Black Swan music video. Their 3 rappers also each have a solo song on that album, written based on different Jungian concepts - * Intro : Persona by RM * Interlude: Shadow by Suga * Outro: Ego by J-Hope The music vids for those 3 songs are titled "comeback trailer" If anyone wants to explore BTS's discography, highly recommend checking out the music reactor Anthony Ray - all his BTS reactions are great. Hip-hop is one of BTS's strengths, as they were initially formed as a hip-hop group and their rappers were former underground battle rappers. Songs for hip-hop fans would be ones likes Born Singer, Outro Tear, Ddeng, Ugh, and any solo songs from their 3 rappers (like Yun by RM ft Erykah Badu, Haegeum by Agust D, and Daydream by J-Hope)
I used to have nightmares where I was trapped in the house I grew up in, though it was always dark with the curtains drawn. In that house was a ghost - corporeal but wholly invisible, without even a shimmer. One dream I got tired of being afraid, so I began to lash out. After that, whenever I had the dream, I was still trapped in the dark house and still very much afraid, but I was on the hunt. I never really gave the dreams much thought; I figured it was just a feature of my experience in this universe. One day I realized - seeing as how everything in the dream is in my head - that the ghost was a piece of me, though what piece I could not infer, and that the next time I had the dream I would try instead to speak with it. It began avoiding me. In each successive dream, the house got brighter and brighter and slowly began to fill with people - family members mostly. Then the dreams changed. The ghost aspect remained, but I was no longer in the house. In another dream, we were in a gravel parking lot and it was walking towards me, though this time I could _see_ it. It had the form of a man wearing a cloak and it was made of dark blur. It was made of literal shadow. A Jungian construct, certainly, but never was it more obvious what this thing was. From then on, I endeavored to merge with it, thinking if I could do so in a dream, it might result in some real world application or a greater sense of wholeness, but the one time I encountered it since that decision, it screamed at me in a disturbed and demonic voice to leave it alone. Since then, I have left it alone. I am no longer afraid, and I endeavor to be whole, but it cannot be forced. Forceful integration of one's shadow should not be a means to an enlightened end. The head of a coin can never merge with the tail. Obverse and reverse already occupy one body. They are fully integrated and yet separate. Light can be shown on both sides simultaneously, and both sides can be in darkness. From this analogy, it makes more sense to me not to call this aspect of myself a shadow, but merely a flipside. Which is front and which is back? I do not know and honestly no longer think it matters. Just my two cents. Love your work. Peace.
@@vantage789 - Dreams of being haunted? I want to offer advice and comfort, but really I have none. I am not sure if my dreams evolved on their own, as a result of my desire to unravel them, or perhaps a combination of both. I am sure, though, that if you endeavor to understand them, you will eventually. At what pace - who knows?
I frequently see I am chased by Lions or tigers... I mean a house surrounded by Lions .. in garden and I am scared .. locked myself in a room... Or someday I dream I am visiting an old hospital.. big rooms with beds.. no one is there and I went inside a room .. sat on a table but suddenly I wanted to get out .. but I couldn't... Something was holding me forcefully on the table... I was trying my best and finally I cried aloud and got up and started running away.. I don't know what does it mean but I remember these bcz I wrote down about it...
Dear AoI, thank you for this material. I already did faced my dark side and did not like it. Yet I can appreciate the fact that I recognized it in me. And it is a valuable lesson. Love from Poland ❤
The glimpses I have had with the shadow on the spiritual path, to connect and truely feel my greatest repressed fears, to embody that existential dread of a meaningless existence with no escape. It is the hardest thing I have ever undertaken in my life… To realise how my mind projects to create the reality I see…
Few quick tips from me. Don’t look for perfection look for improvement. Run every other day and incorporate sprints of 1 minute. Eat a lot of herbs. Go places with a lot of people and people watch and interact with them.
this is good stuff. and you CAN fight the shadow. you'll never win, but you can keep it in check. and you do fundamentally change when you make a concious decision to take up arms against it.
Agreed, for the most part. I can't speak for anyone else, but there are parts of me I have to keep on a tight leash. Not because they're evil, unto themselves. But because, if I refused to acknowledge them, understand them, or lead them, they would take over and lead me. Then I *would* become the evil I hate. And, unlike many, I know *exactly* what I'm capable of. And I accept it so I can control myself. Everything has a time, place, and purpose. I can't choose anything except what/who I want to be. I can't like myself if I become what I hate. And I can't trust myself, or my own judgment, if I know I'm a liar. It's just that simple.
Thankyou so much for this, Dr Kim. This resonated so strongly for me. Been riding the aware “horse” (loved the analogy!) and progressing through my work in progress for life. Had a major fall feom said horse and have still been feeling ashamed about it, since October ‘22, as it signalled a no going back point with my Dad. And emergence into some new way I know I have to be now, at age 48. The “recovering people pleasing empath” is what I am!
It's fine and all to see this as an individual issue, but keep in mind that as you can see slivers of others' shadows so can they see slivers of yours. In a way, people who know you deeply and have a significant relationship with you will sometimes know things about you that you might not notice and as our narrator says we can notice things about ourselves when we compare ourselves to others, so confronting your shadow is also a process you do with others, not only with yourself.
One hard truth I found out for myself was self realization through projection. I learned my own insecurities through listening to what I had to say from within myself. Once you can hear out loud and really let your inner most insecurities sink in you will be heading in the right direction to truly knowing yourself. I've been unknowingly subjecting myself to a catharsis through music for a long time. Because the words spoke to me on a different level more than just words being spoken. The meaning behind the words had really let me understand the feelings I never knew I could feel
If you’re watching these videos and feel like you’re spiralling into worse anxiety, you’re not alone. Jung’s theories can be powerful, but for those already dealing with anxiety or mental health issues, they can easily become overwhelming. It’s crucial to recognise that while Jung emphasised confronting the shadow and taking action, the understanding of mental health conditions in his time was limited. Mental health isn’t just about your mind-it’s about your brain and body too. Anxiety isn’t something you can just force your way through. It’s a physical condition with roots in your brain chemistry, and if you don’t address it properly, focusing solely on your fears can make things worse. If you do have anxiety-which is more than likely if you resonate with the video-it can be easy to get so caught up in those fears that you lose sight of other perspectives. If you’re unaware of having a mental health condition, you might be adding unnecessary weight to your struggles without realising it. Taking action is important, but so is understanding what’s happening inside your mind and body on a biological level. Jung’s theories aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution, and they don’t always apply in the same way to everyone. If you’re stuck in a cycle of anxious thoughts, constantly feeling like you’re living life wrong, step back. Personal growth isn’t about tearing yourself apart or forcing yourself into a state of fear. Sometimes, the most effective action is taking small, manageable steps, instead of diving into the deep end. Jung’s ideas are meant to help you realise your greatest potential, but your mental health must come first. Don’t let abstract concepts push you into a crisis. Mental health requires balance, which means understanding and addressing both the psychological and physical aspects of what you're going through.
I’ve seen a number of videos on the Shadow, but this one is the best and most succinct. It’s a basic but comprehensive explanation that can lead to a better understanding of deeper, more detailed material on the subject. Thanks for sharing.
This got even more intense when I integrated the shadows of each one of my alters as I have DID. going through each one of their journeys took years but was amazing and beautiful.
"Getting in touch with the shadow" in this story reminds me of having a very bad trip on LSD and after it changes you and brings out the good in you. Bad trips to me aren't fun but teach way more.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. 5 yrs sober. W/ shadow work. It’s best to prepare for a year by learning to know we are not white knights; to save the world is projecting. There’s Red, white then black. Training in black, when finished is the best that leads us into shadow work. It’s very hard to get through. You can just go right into shadow work, absolutely.
Hey stranger on the internet, your feelings are valid but I believe in you that you have the power to overcome your darkness. It will take time and efforts but I know you'll overcome it ;)
@@josephang9927 I understand. I feel the same so much of the time. But it's universal. VERY few people really have it together. Virtually everyone we see is traumatically wounded and terrified, no matter how they may present themselves. It's also very easy to become addicted to our own suffering, dramatic as it is. We can cast ourself into a different role however, if we're brave enough. Of course, we then have to confront our own terror.
Yes. It is best to confront your own inner turmoil that is your darkness. It feeds off of a part of your persona that you either repress or indulge in. Being dangerous is not bad, but being harmful is; whether it’d be to yourself or others. Master your inner darkness and completely make yourself whole
This channel is awesome. I've had a huge transformation in my life since I discovered Eastern philosophies and one of the things which I always struggled with is explaining myself to others. This channel is giving me academic knowledge which helps me to structure my experiences, thoughts and feelings in a precise way so I can verbalize my inner states and thus spread my message to others. Thanks a lot!
I don’t know why I have a difficult time comprehending the shadow but this video did a better job than most. Especially explaining that the shadow isn’t all bad. I thought it was about inner evil but it’s really about shining a light on what is hiding with in us both positive and negative.
"Is it not an old truth that a woman loves the weakness of a strong man more than his strength, and the stupidity of a smart man more than his cleverness? Her love wants the whole man." Awww
Just started to watch more of these videos and It really opens my eyes to the beauty to literature and history and what we can learn for past philosophers. These videos motivate me to become a diplomatic leader for the betterment of all. Wondrous videos!
AOI, love your work. There is a lot of talk of late about working on the shadow side but let me throw in a curve ball - not all thoughts come from within. We live in a reality with an attached astral dimension/realm; within that astral realm there are many types of entities. Many, if not most/all are malevolent and many can attach or psychically influence. Things like trauma, stress, anxiety etc provide an opening for these entities. I think what many believe is their dark-side, shadow-side etc does not come from their true essence but from external forces exploiting their life-force/energy.
I agree 👍🏻 because as I’ve aged and matured, I’m becoming more at peace with (and accepting of) the reality that not everyone see things the way I do. God bless.
I think it is also important to know how to forgive the “sins” of your uncontrolled shadow, otherwise you can give them a disproportionate weight that prevents you from having that wholeness.
So many movies and books are about this, Campbell's heroes journey is about entering the unknown "the shadow" and emerging transformed. So many stories use this formula, it's so interesting and I feel like it's such an ancient concept in some ways. Everyone can relate to the idea of being their own enemy
Excellent video as always, thank you for the work you do. It's true we have an instinctive suspicion of people who act too nice to be true. It baffles me how people fall for the fake niceties dished out by politicians and pop culture figures. It seems like some people just want to be deceived.
However, "awareness" doesn't necessarily help solve the problem; in fact, sometimes, "awareness" exacerbates the problem..... the reason why there are many threads online about how "therapy doesn't work" is because for so many patients, understanding the source of your trauma doesn't necessarily resolve it; that is why eventually therapists prescribe drugs
I accepted that i would do horrible things under the right circumstances a while ago. I accepted that everyone is capable and willing to do "evil" under the right circumstances, especially if they're know they won't be punished. I now happily identify as a misanthrope.
@@ACORNyMOFO So you would say that human nature is fundamentally evil at the core? Or fundamentally predisposed to choose ‘negatively’ charged actions? Or is it possible that negativity carries such a weight that the positive majority of humanity is clouded by the actions of a few despite the good of the many?
@@alecwright4775 Milgram proved what humanity is. What frightened him was that not only will people defer to authority to the point of genocide, but would allow themselves to be genocided.
Another worthwhile presentation. Yes, a funny old world-for us all, including Jung [who had his fair share of personality "defects" ]. But then, no one is "perfect" -and no one ever has bee,. Fight the good fight.
In Carl's Jung "Shadow" are: 7:46 instinctual drives for aggresion, power and sex. Animalistic instinct In the shadow there are also strengths not just weaknesses. 9:59 zice că oamenii instinctiv se feresc de cei care se ataseaza doar de Personas lor, adică masca perfectă, pentru că de obicei ascund ceva foarte rău în umbră. Si preferă oamenii care sunt conștienți și acceptă their flows, adică the shadow. Complete image plus si minus nu doar plus. 10:58 oamenii care lucrează cu umbra lor sunt cei care ajută și schimbă lumea. Foarte bună partea asta în care spune că "toată lumea fuge de umbra lor și astfel o propagă și mai tare în lume" Nu poți să vezi drept dacă nu te poți vedea nici măcar pe tine de întunericul în care stai.
when it's twelve o'clock, we climb the stair We never knock, for nobody's there Just me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue All alone and feeling blue
Shadow work is important, mostly for yourself though it does affect others. But those who hide their shadows from others and themselves, when confronted with someone who does the opposite, will instinctively avoid that person. This happens on the individual level, but also on the level of the collective. So what happens is you get these “whole” men and women scattered throughout the world and surrounded by people who pay them no mind 😂 because of the fear most people have of confronting uncomfortable realities. I sometimes wonder how different the world might become if people cared less about being comfortable and more about being free. Not for too long though, since I know a good number of people are still obsessed with pointing fingers at illusory scapegoats. Anyone but themselves.
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Best video you've posted here for awhile.
Grand SLAM.
Good one.
Could you make a video about the "dark night of the soul"?
😊😊😊
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
I agree. And in that case, I suppose that my life as an adult has been a tragedy.
@@meierlinksd4996 mine too. my night shift working was detrimental
Wow
That is the BEST comment I've ever read.
Profound wisdom, Germanikolaas Absolute
@gerardkedzior4988 Oh, I am sorry to hear that. I hope things have gotten a little better for you.
As for me, what I was taking from the OP's quote was more figurative or metaphorical. That I never took any chances or risks. That I never stepped past anxiety, fear, or "The comfort zone". That I never tried to find out who I was and what I could have been capable of. Hiding in the darkness instead of stepping out into the light.
I threw away my life, and it is not coming back, since you only get one shot at it.
Much like the heartbreaking scene in the movie, "Scent of a Woman": "What life?! I got no life! I'm in the dark, here!"
"To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light"
I absolutely adore this
Even the wonderful moon has a dark side, after all...
Another way of saying what Marcus Aurelius said: "what stands in the way becomes the way" 😊
"Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct you life and you will call it fate". - Jung
Or if you see the herds grazing yonder and follow them, you will not know the meaning of today or yesterday 😂
Its hard to change your subconsious programming. Its a life time journey
@Hassan Droubi yes. Deprogramming is hard. It's better to reprogram by programming something new it will unprogram the old. Force it out. Unless your talking aboit healing trauma. Then that takes watching your triggers.
@Hassan Droubi “[The normal man] may indeed thrive in the surroundings [of his society], but only up to the point where he and his milieu meet with disaster for transgressing the laws [of reality and human nature]. He will share the general collapse to exactly the same extent as he was adjusted to the previous situation. Adjustment is not adaptation; Adaptation requires far more than merely going along smoothly with the conditions of the moment. It requires observance of laws more universal than the immediate conditions of time and place. The very adjustment of the normal [individual] is his limitation.”
Carl Jung, Psychological Types
Very true.
Nothing, and I mean _nothing,_ has done more to help me progress and redeem my life than the pursuit of befriending that which is shadow in myself. Every time I go deeper, I understand more.
Truly a noble journey to love your enemy, the enemy inside you.
Yes. Great comment. Maybe a year ago it occurred to me that the commandment to love and pray for our enemies could also apply to loving and praying for our internal enemies. Perhaps I'll reach a point where I realize that the only real enemies are the ones within me.
How did you do it?
@@harryneuhoff9115 alcohol and pornography
@@talibanairport1544 That’s what is meant by confronting your dark side? Did you approach it with therapy or….?
@@harryneuhoff9115 Harry, I'm sure therapy was invented for total bubble brains. Don't get caught up with that.
I faced a terrible dark night of the soul a few months ago brought about by a co worker asking me “are you ok?” Just like that my “mask” fell and years of repressed emotions came flooding out. The following weeks I went through a depression sorting through my deep wounds and pains that I was masking and came out of it enlightened. I no longer identify myself as who I once was, I’ve integrated my shadow and now am trying to learn to live with this new me. One without shame, anxiety, fear, etc,. It’s like cleaning out a room filled with filth and seeing the cleaned room for the first time. You just stand there asking “is that what the carpet looked like?” And wonder what will you do now. It truly is a scary experience…
if it makes you feel any better, i once burst into tears mid handjob.
An exciting experience, the real essence of freedom, you can finally truly choose. This is such a great comment.
I've been going through this process for a long time now. It's obviously been a very tumultuous and often traumatic experience, but it's been a more than worthwhile journey thus far.
The hardest thing to come to terms with has been exactly what you described, about no longer seeing yourself as the person you thought you were. It's a very confronting but also disorienting feeling, to know that all your life you had seen yourself as someone you never were and never could be.
However, that leaves you in a position to rebuild almost from scratch. From that I can honestly say I've learned more about myself in the last 5-6 years than in the previous forty odd.
Been there, done that. Couldn’t agree more ♥️😊😊
❤ peace be with all those who dares to enter the shadow and came out beaten and slightly more whole person 🙇🏽♂️
One of the few channels that I actively am excited for when a video is released... as the popular saying goes.... When i see an Academy of Ideas video, I press Play!
One of the best channels, for sure… it’s so deep and wise that sometimes, in those dark moments, it casts too bright of a light on me, that makes me not click on it right away, because I fear it, I fear the responsibility it brings on me, I fear the inevitable exposure of my stupidity and flaws…so sometimes I click on that other dumb video standing besides on the YT page to escape it… but not today
@@pedroferreira2062 Giving a re-listen already.
This quality narration allows me to stay in a constant state of self meditation; and self understanding that I find, is pivotal
in the development of my psyche, character and the whole human process of self conceptualizing in general.
What is the "self"?
@@pedroferreira2062 A way to keep on track
is to realize that of your inevitable doom.
You read like you know the script by heart. There are no spaces in your narration that allow the meanings of the words (ideas) to sink in for someone who hasnt read the script. Love your content tho.... just be nice to not have to keep rewinding.
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
*-Carl Jung*
facts
True.
"Where's your fear, there is your task" (Carl Jung).
I did 1 year of IFS therapy and got closer to my shadow. It's difficult work as I had traumatic childhood but it's very rewarding. Shadow parts they have many qualities, energy, etc. They just need healing, they need to be approached with love and compassion. Our ego is often very scared of this work, of being overwhelmed by emotions (it once happened to me at the age of 19 where I experienced spiritual emergency/psychosis). So lesson learned, wounded Inner Child cannot be locked and forgotten. It will be finding ways to connect with you. It's up to you whether you want to connect with it and build a relationship.
Individuation is necessary if we want to truly grow/mature.
Ya jung was an idiot. Had insights, but an idiot nonetheless. "You become more dry when you integrate water into your clothes" what kind of smooth brain believes this stuff.
That was literally the best explanation bro
Are you saying that learning about people and life is about understanding your dark side - without just being cynical , because people in reality have more darkness in them than light - which I suppose is survival skills ?
Is this how you set about aiming for having a higher awareness or consciousness, the latter being something you are required to work toward and is acquired gradually , like most good things ?
This is honestly a genuine question for anyone who knows , and can be bothered to reply ??
Merci!
I have grown to love my shadow, I see some parts of it in others, and it makes me smile. If you listen carefully, to what others tell you, you get to know theirs. Because, they really want to unburden themselves. Peace be unto you.
When you get up in the morning, let the world wait. Defy it a little.
First learn something to inspire you. Take a few moments to meditate upon it.
And then you may plunge ahead into the darkness, full of light with which to illuminate it.
~ Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
Ευχαριστούμε!
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Very nice explanation. Much appreciated! 🙏
Facing one's shadow is a grim yet, invigorating must, to lead one's true Life.
@academyofideas Thank you infinitely, for bringing back into my perception that I am not just acting up but bravely bringing up effort through all failure and epiphany.
Even in aspect that it hurts as much as I can bare.
Have a week of wholeness, dear catalyst of completeness!
Thanks
I agree that we should get this but this also going to bring people to better distinguish between crime, evil, and sin. So still judgement and punishment remains, and necessary. Pointing finger but at the context of justice, less about self criticsm
The art, the writings, the tone.
Powerful stuff, like it alot man!
Keep it up
For anyone interested, BTS made an entire album called Map Of the Soul 7 that is all based on Carl Jung's concepts of the psyche and self. It's very deep and a real work of art. The Jungian concept of the Shadow is a re-occuring theme in many songs, lyrically and visually, like in their Black Swan music video. Their 3 rappers also each have a solo song on that album, written based on different Jungian concepts -
* Intro : Persona by RM
* Interlude: Shadow by Sugar
* Outro: Ego by J-Hope
The music vids for those 3 songs are titled "comeback trailer"
If anyone wants to explore BTS's discography, highly recommend checking out the music reactor Anthony Ray - all his BTS reactions are great.
This is how you access the divine creativity within you.
The future is so so bright!!!!
The pairing of images with themes in these videos are sublimely matched.
I’ve noticed when I fast suppressed thoughts, guilt anger, insensitivity arises. I don’t know if this helps with unveiling the shadow self, but with holding myself from pleasure for a period of time, allows me to really see what’s underneath me and what I’ve been avoiding and denying
For anyone interested, BTS made an entire album called Map Of the Soul 7 that is all based on Carl Jung's concepts of the psyche and self. It's very deep and a real work of art. The Jungian concept of the Shadow is a re-occuring theme in many songs, lyrically and visually, like in their Black Swan music video. Their 3 rappers also each have a solo song on that album, written based on different Jungian concepts -
* Intro : Persona by RM
* Interlude: Shadow by Suga
* Outro: Ego by J-Hope
The music vids for those 3 songs are titled "comeback trailer"
If anyone wants to explore BTS's discography, highly recommend checking out the music reactor Anthony Ray - all his BTS reactions are great. Hip-hop is one of BTS's strengths, as they were initially formed as a hip-hop group and their rappers were former underground battle rappers. Songs for hip-hop fans would be ones likes Born Singer, Outro Tear, Ddeng, Ugh, and any solo songs from their 3 rappers (like Yun by RM ft Erykah Badu, Haegeum by Agust D, and Daydream by J-Hope)
I used to have nightmares where I was trapped in the house I grew up in, though it was always dark with the curtains drawn. In that house was a ghost - corporeal but wholly invisible, without even a shimmer. One dream I got tired of being afraid, so I began to lash out. After that, whenever I had the dream, I was still trapped in the dark house and still very much afraid, but I was on the hunt. I never really gave the dreams much thought; I figured it was just a feature of my experience in this universe. One day I realized - seeing as how everything in the dream is in my head - that the ghost was a piece of me, though what piece I could not infer, and that the next time I had the dream I would try instead to speak with it. It began avoiding me. In each successive dream, the house got brighter and brighter and slowly began to fill with people - family members mostly. Then the dreams changed. The ghost aspect remained, but I was no longer in the house. In another dream, we were in a gravel parking lot and it was walking towards me, though this time I could _see_ it. It had the form of a man wearing a cloak and it was made of dark blur. It was made of literal shadow. A Jungian construct, certainly, but never was it more obvious what this thing was. From then on, I endeavored to merge with it, thinking if I could do so in a dream, it might result in some real world application or a greater sense of wholeness, but the one time I encountered it since that decision, it screamed at me in a disturbed and demonic voice to leave it alone. Since then, I have left it alone. I am no longer afraid, and I endeavor to be whole, but it cannot be forced. Forceful integration of one's shadow should not be a means to an enlightened end.
The head of a coin can never merge with the tail. Obverse and reverse already occupy one body. They are fully integrated and yet separate. Light can be shown on both sides simultaneously, and both sides can be in darkness. From this analogy, it makes more sense to me not to call this aspect of myself a shadow, but merely a flipside. Which is front and which is back? I do not know and honestly no longer think it matters.
Just my two cents. Love your work. Peace.
Yin & Yang
Damn, thanks for sharing this. Super interesting. I have dreams of a similar sort although the house is still quite dark.
@@vantage789 - Dreams of being haunted? I want to offer advice and comfort, but really I have none. I am not sure if my dreams evolved on their own, as a result of my desire to unravel them, or perhaps a combination of both. I am sure, though, that if you endeavor to understand them, you will eventually. At what pace - who knows?
I’m not reading all that
I frequently see I am chased by Lions or tigers... I mean a house surrounded by Lions .. in garden and I am scared .. locked myself in a room... Or someday I dream I am visiting an old hospital.. big rooms with beds.. no one is there and I went inside a room .. sat on a table but suddenly I wanted to get out .. but I couldn't... Something was holding me forcefully on the table... I was trying my best and finally I cried aloud and got up and started running away..
I don't know what does it mean but I remember these bcz I wrote down about it...
You make the best videos on RUclips, keep up the tremendous work.
A pleasure listening.
Excellent as usual 👏🏾
Dana is fabulous! Could listen to her all day long. Does she write books about aromatics? Does she have a podcast?
So grateful for your work. Thank you!🦋🕊🌹
Dear AoI,
thank you for this material. I already did faced my dark side and did not like it. Yet I can appreciate the fact that I recognized it in me. And it is a valuable lesson.
Love from Poland ❤
Can you explain in a little detail..how you did it?
I want to do the same thing.
You are my absolute favorite RUclips channel! Thank you for helping me understanding the world!
Experience is the better teacher.
The world is a dark enough place.
Living in the light is where the heart & soul thrive~
Perfect. I needed this reminder, and the clarity with Wich it was delivered.
The glimpses I have had with the shadow on the spiritual path, to connect and truely feel my greatest repressed fears, to embody that existential dread of a meaningless existence with no escape. It is the hardest thing I have ever undertaken in my life… To realise how my mind projects to create the reality I see…
I had to watch this one a couple time to get the full grasp. You always make me pause and reflect. thank you for enlightening me just a bit more
I always felt this intuitively but it feels good to hear it spoken and clear metaphore
We all have wolves in the shadows of our souls…..
We rise by lifting others ✨️
Few quick tips from me. Don’t look for perfection look for improvement. Run every other day and incorporate sprints of 1 minute. Eat a lot of herbs. Go places with a lot of people and people watch and interact with them.
this is good stuff. and you CAN fight the shadow. you'll never win, but you can keep it in check. and you do fundamentally change when you make a concious decision to take up arms against it.
Agreed, for the most part. I can't speak for anyone else, but there are parts of me I have to keep on a tight leash. Not because they're evil, unto themselves. But because, if I refused to acknowledge them, understand them, or lead them, they would take over and lead me. Then I *would* become the evil I hate. And, unlike many, I know *exactly* what I'm capable of. And I accept it so I can control myself.
Everything has a time, place, and purpose. I can't choose anything except what/who I want to be. I can't like myself if I become what I hate. And I can't trust myself, or my own judgment, if I know I'm a liar. It's just that simple.
Thankyou so much for this, Dr Kim. This resonated so strongly for me. Been riding the aware “horse” (loved the analogy!) and progressing through my work in progress for life. Had a major fall feom said horse and have still been feeling ashamed about it, since October ‘22, as it signalled a no going back point with my Dad. And emergence into some new way I know I have to be now, at age 48. The “recovering people pleasing empath” is what I am!
each morning the unconscious pours itself into our consciousness
It's fine and all to see this as an individual issue, but keep in mind that as you can see slivers of others' shadows so can they see slivers of yours. In a way, people who know you deeply and have a significant relationship with you will sometimes know things about you that you might not notice and as our narrator says we can notice things about ourselves when we compare ourselves to others, so confronting your shadow is also a process you do with others, not only with yourself.
Another excellent piece of work.!
One hard truth I found out for myself was self realization through projection. I learned my own insecurities through listening to what I had to say from within myself. Once you can hear out loud and really let your inner most insecurities sink in you will be heading in the right direction to truly knowing yourself. I've been unknowingly subjecting myself to a catharsis through music for a long time. Because the words spoke to me on a different level more than just words being spoken. The meaning behind the words had really let me understand the feelings I never knew I could feel
The person we lie to the most is ourselves.
The algorithm is scaring me. This video hit hard. 💯
My shadow and my anima get extremly vivid in my psychosis...i always go through the same scenarios...archetypes gods god angels demons...i love it...
If you’re watching these videos and feel like you’re spiralling into worse anxiety, you’re not alone. Jung’s theories can be powerful, but for those already dealing with anxiety or mental health issues, they can easily become overwhelming. It’s crucial to recognise that while Jung emphasised confronting the shadow and taking action, the understanding of mental health conditions in his time was limited. Mental health isn’t just about your mind-it’s about your brain and body too.
Anxiety isn’t something you can just force your way through. It’s a physical condition with roots in your brain chemistry, and if you don’t address it properly, focusing solely on your fears can make things worse. If you do have anxiety-which is more than likely if you resonate with the video-it can be easy to get so caught up in those fears that you lose sight of other perspectives. If you’re unaware of having a mental health condition, you might be adding unnecessary weight to your struggles without realising it. Taking action is important, but so is understanding what’s happening inside your mind and body on a biological level.
Jung’s theories aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution, and they don’t always apply in the same way to everyone. If you’re stuck in a cycle of anxious thoughts, constantly feeling like you’re living life wrong, step back. Personal growth isn’t about tearing yourself apart or forcing yourself into a state of fear. Sometimes, the most effective action is taking small, manageable steps, instead of diving into the deep end. Jung’s ideas are meant to help you realise your greatest potential, but your mental health must come first. Don’t let abstract concepts push you into a crisis. Mental health requires balance, which means understanding and addressing both the psychological and physical aspects of what you're going through.
What lurks in the hearts of Men?
The Shadow Knows.
I’ve seen a number of videos on the Shadow, but this one is the best and most succinct. It’s a basic but comprehensive explanation that can lead to a better understanding of deeper, more detailed material on the subject. Thanks for sharing.
when you figure it out you become the wounded healer and can help other identify where they are blind
This got even more intense when I integrated the shadows of each one of my alters as I have DID. going through each one of their journeys took years but was amazing and beautiful.
"Getting in touch with the shadow" in this story reminds me of having a very bad trip on LSD and after it changes you and brings out the good in you. Bad trips to me aren't fun but teach way more.
Inspirational work❤. Life is so much more peaceful when you are true to yourself.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. 5 yrs sober. W/ shadow work. It’s best to prepare for a year by learning to know we are not white knights; to save the world is projecting. There’s Red, white then black. Training in black, when finished is the best that leads us into shadow work. It’s very hard to get through. You can just go right into shadow work, absolutely.
Stop counting.
I'm so tired of life. I feel I'll never overcome the darkness and sadness and grief and pain.
Hey stranger on the internet, your feelings are valid but I believe in you that you have the power to overcome your darkness. It will take time and efforts but I know you'll overcome it ;)
@yash You are right. I have overcame it before, and I will find a way out again. But the pain sometimes is so dense 😞
You got this 💪🏼
@@josephang9927 I understand. I feel the same so much of the time. But it's universal. VERY few people really have it together. Virtually everyone we see is traumatically wounded and terrified, no matter how they may present themselves. It's also very easy to become addicted to our own suffering, dramatic as it is. We can cast ourself into a different role however, if we're brave enough. Of course, we then have to confront our own terror.
Go read the power of subconscious mind ull change u mind were having the same journey bro love you ur appreciated ❤️
Commenting to boost the algo. This videos need to be pushed to the masses… unlike other things that are being shoved in our faces. Keep it up!
I have been actively trying to start shadow work today, this is a sign ahah
Jesus. I was actually reading and writing about this concept for an Instagram post a few days ago. Great timing.
Merci beaucoup !
Yes. It is best to confront your own inner turmoil that is your darkness. It feeds off of a part of your persona that you either repress or indulge in.
Being dangerous is not bad, but being harmful is; whether it’d be to yourself or others.
Master your inner darkness and completely make yourself whole
This is one of the best, if not the best, videos on Jung and the Shadow I’ve ever seen.
Thank you.
This channel is awesome. I've had a huge transformation in my life since I discovered Eastern philosophies and one of the things which I always struggled with is explaining myself to others. This channel is giving me academic knowledge which helps me to structure my experiences, thoughts and feelings in a precise way so I can verbalize my inner states and thus spread my message to others. Thanks a lot!
this is the type of video I like to ingest.
“Flowing through all there is balance.”
I don’t know why I have a difficult time comprehending the shadow but this video did a better job than most. Especially explaining that the shadow isn’t all bad. I thought it was about inner evil but it’s really about shining a light on what is hiding with in us both positive and negative.
Thank you!! I’ve been waiting for this exact video!
"Is it not an old truth that a woman loves the weakness of a strong man more than his strength, and the stupidity of a smart man more than his cleverness? Her love wants the whole man."
Awww
Her love wants a balanced man
Men love the empowerment of a weak woman
Listen to the song "I need a hero" from Bonnie Tyler
Thank you for the powerful paintings and drawings that you include. They add very much to your message.
The shadow has been walking with me all this time.
Trust me society doesn't want that...I keep my dark side in check for others safety.
So, what you fail to see is your good traits
Just started to watch more of these videos and It really opens my eyes to the beauty to literature and history and what we can learn for past philosophers. These videos motivate me to become a diplomatic leader for the betterment of all. Wondrous videos!
I can't get enough of those Doré prints!
AOI, love your work. There is a lot of talk of late about working on the shadow side but let me throw in a curve ball - not all thoughts come from within. We live in a reality with an attached astral dimension/realm; within that astral realm there are many types of entities. Many, if not most/all are malevolent and many can attach or psychically influence. Things like trauma, stress, anxiety etc provide an opening for these entities. I think what many believe is their dark-side, shadow-side etc does not come from their true essence but from external forces exploiting their life-force/energy.
Change is coming through my shadow.
My shadow's shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again.
Ahhhh. A man of culture
“Between the idea and the reality
Between the motion and the act
Falls the shadow.”
T.S. Eliot
Priceless Wisdom. Thank you!
Age.... maturity....and acceptance seem to bring a strange contentment.
That all depends on how honest you are with yourself.
@@atodaso1668 that's acceptance.
I agree 👍🏻 because as I’ve aged and matured, I’m becoming more at peace with (and accepting of) the reality that not everyone see things the way I do. God bless.
Efect timing as always! Always great thought food for my spiritual self.
"I am thou, thou art i. I am a shadow, the true self."
I knew there was a word for this. I believe this is the most impactful video I’ve watched in a long time
I think it is also important to know how to forgive the “sins” of your uncontrolled shadow, otherwise you can give them a disproportionate weight that prevents you from having that wholeness.
I’ve never been so pumped up by a jung
Easily the best channel on youtube, thank you so much and keep up the great work
So many movies and books are about this, Campbell's heroes journey is about entering the unknown "the shadow" and emerging transformed. So many stories use this formula, it's so interesting and I feel like it's such an ancient concept in some ways. Everyone can relate to the idea of being their own enemy
Excellent video as always, thank you for the work you do.
It's true we have an instinctive suspicion of people who act too nice to be true. It baffles me how people fall for the fake niceties dished out by politicians and pop culture figures. It seems like some people just want to be deceived.
My fav one so far. Thanks for this great work jung and of course you guys!❤
Metal music is useful for facing and using the good of the shadow.
Who I want to be is who I always was/am. The shadow isn’t who I am hiding; it’s who temporarily comes out when I can’t be what I am.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.” - Rumi
However, "awareness" doesn't necessarily help solve the problem; in fact, sometimes, "awareness" exacerbates the problem..... the reason why there are many threads online about how "therapy doesn't work" is because for so many patients, understanding the source of your trauma doesn't necessarily resolve it; that is why eventually therapists prescribe drugs
That’s why you need creative expression to release what you’ve become aware of.
I accepted that i would do horrible things under the right circumstances a while ago. I accepted that everyone is capable and willing to do "evil" under the right circumstances, especially if they're know they won't be punished. I now happily identify as a misanthrope.
Happily identifying as one who dislikes humankind illuminates that you dislike yourself. You're humankind. The only outcome is more inner conflict.
@Alec Wright I don't hate humans. I just accept the potential of our true nature and don't trust too many people further than I can see them
@@ACORNyMOFO So you would say that human nature is fundamentally evil at the core? Or fundamentally predisposed to choose ‘negatively’ charged actions? Or is it possible that negativity carries such a weight that the positive majority of humanity is clouded by the actions of a few despite the good of the many?
Milgram proved what we are as a majority.
Probably lead to his death.
75%+ ARE monsters under the skin.
HumANiTy.
@@alecwright4775 Milgram proved what humanity is.
What frightened him was that not only will people defer to authority to the point of genocide, but would allow themselves to be genocided.
Another worthwhile presentation. Yes, a funny old world-for us all, including Jung [who had his fair share of personality "defects" ]. But then, no one is "perfect" -and no one ever has bee,. Fight the good fight.
Excelent!
Thank you!
In Carl's Jung "Shadow" are:
7:46 instinctual drives for aggresion, power and sex.
Animalistic instinct
In the shadow there are also strengths not just weaknesses.
9:59 zice că oamenii instinctiv se feresc de cei care se ataseaza doar de Personas lor, adică masca perfectă, pentru că de obicei ascund ceva foarte rău în umbră. Si preferă oamenii care sunt conștienți și acceptă their flows, adică the shadow.
Complete image plus si minus nu doar plus.
10:58 oamenii care lucrează cu umbra lor sunt cei care ajută și schimbă lumea.
Foarte bună partea asta în care spune că "toată lumea fuge de umbra lor și astfel o propagă și mai tare în lume"
Nu poți să vezi drept dacă nu te poți vedea nici măcar pe tine de întunericul în care stai.
when it's twelve o'clock, we climb the stair
We never knock, for nobody's there
Just me and my shadow
Strolling down the avenue
All alone and feeling blue
One of the most important clips anyone can internalize. Respect and Love to the growth warriors ❤🙏
This is clinical mate so easy to understand, really well done
People need to be in touch with their souls. Otherwise people will be lost wandering around without any aim.
Shadow work is important, mostly for yourself though it does affect others. But those who hide their shadows from others and themselves, when confronted with someone who does the opposite, will instinctively avoid that person. This happens on the individual level, but also on the level of the collective. So what happens is you get these “whole” men and women scattered throughout the world and surrounded by people who pay them no mind 😂 because of the fear most people have of confronting uncomfortable realities. I sometimes wonder how different the world might become if people cared less about being comfortable and more about being free. Not for too long though, since I know a good number of people are still obsessed with pointing fingers at illusory scapegoats. Anyone but themselves.
I was afraid of not being able to become an alcoholic but I faced my dark side and now I’m getting drunk each day
Thank you for the lecture!