Our past is part of us, as DNA is spreading from one generation to another. I must say that I feel our ancestors were wiser then modern men, when awareness of ourselves is concerned. For example, in initiation rituals among archaic people, when they are going to initiate usually young men, they were putting them in a cave and leave them there. What was the reason for that? Caves are dark, man! Being in the cave, your fear will arise, is there something in there and you don’t know what exactly is there. More importantly, THERE IS WHATEVER YOU IMAGINE MIGHT BE IN THE CAVE. When you are in the cave (literally or symbolically) and you are alone, you are confronting the devils, demons and monsters of you own imagination. Staying in that cave, you have a chance to deal with all fears and overcome them. That is perhaps part of the initiation ceremony. It is part of growing up because you have to learn how to face the things that upset and terrify you.
For one of the fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung, hero journey was the journey INSIDE OF UNCONSCIOUS MIND. To make it simple, that would be the willingness to face everything terrible all that has happened to you. Furthermore, you need to think it through and to ARTICULATE IT. Jung’s idea was claiming that the first step towards individuation was the discovery of your own shadow. Your shadow is the part of you that will do terrible things under the right circumstances. Modern people don’t think much about idea good and evil but that is because most of them are ignorant or naive, as Jung claims. If you read any history with real interest and you don’t come away with the idea that evil exists, I must tell you, you are just reading wrong kind of history. It is unbelievable what people can do to each other. We have the knowledge of good and evil because we know about ourselves, we know about our own vulnerability. Once you know what hurts you, being creative as being, you can really hurt someone else. That happens a lot to people, more than you think! You know that kind of people I am sure. You need to take that into account, when you see the world and all people out there. For Jung the pathway to higher wisdom is through portal of “hell”. I hope you are getting now what that means.
When unpleasant situation happens in our life, very unpleasant feeling comes with that. I am sure you had that feeling of being resentful. All of us have gone through that. In this case you have two options.
Firstly, to accept responsibility and quit complaining, as I have explained in my previous post, or secondly, when someone is actually pushing you hard and bullying you and you have something to say or do that you are not saying or doing. This is your biggest mistake. Although, It is much easier to be quiet, solution is opposite of that.
Obviously, when we are quiet and we want to speak up for things that make us upset, we create resentment in us. I must say, if that happens for a long run, it can just get out of hand. It is pretty much scary as we can turn ourselves into MONSTERS. Usually, it starts with resentment and then continues with desire for revenge, and on and on till we lose ourselves. For instance, you might be tempted to play nasty little tricks with that person who is doing against you. All that puts you in a poisonous space. Slowly, you turn yourself into evil person, justifying to yourself that it is you who is victim here. If you have in your head, how terrible the world is, you will get to the point in some time that existence itself is a kind of poisonous endeavor. Then you can turn yourself into crazy person having aim to go out there and create as much mess as you can, as you are mess inside. That is the dark place I am writing about. That is bad road!
Felling of resentment can show you that you’ve got something to say, and you are keeping it. The point is, you better say it! You need to free yourself from what is suppressing you. Stand up for that! You get to tell people what you are thinking. In this sense, it doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong. At least you will start expressing yourself. On the way, people that care about you can tell you if you are wrong somewhere or telling something that is stupid. That is perfectly fine. It will be useful for you to be less stupid in the future. I know this is hard as ego comes along. Who said self development is easy?
Mostly we like talking with people who are agreeing with us, but we are ignorant to understand we will stay stupid that way as we wont learn anything new.
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