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Why Do Good People Fear Their Own Shadow
Lack of self-awareness and misguided perceptions of ownership of the comments section block spiritual growth
I started mentally writing this essay nearly three weeks ago. I involved myself in a contretemps between writers in mid-February. Coincidentally, or as synchronicity would have it (they absolutely are synonyms and I may have to put an epitaph on my gravestone that says so), shortly thereafter I found my way to several stories containing spiritual wisdom that I saw connected to the situation. First, I’ll tease the story with a senryu (haiku format about human nature) I wrote over dinner and a few drinks tonight with Sitara:
Shit so full of Light
Shadow so invisible
That it does not stink?
John Ege’s Soul-Self Healing, Internal and external approaches to healing self, points out that many conflicts arise from pre-conceived assumptions based on the patterns people have encountered in their lives and that spiritual growth can ensue from each participant in the conflict examining their own role in the situation. In other words, which of their character defects, and let’s face it, we all have them, contributed to the conflict, in which when one fails to examine and at least admit to themselves their…
