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SHADOW WORK IS NOT EASY AT ALL... The ego, wetiko, and "charlatan within" [augmented by occult forces] will resist it with all the rationalizations and justifications to keep blaming and projecting evil externally. Or the opposite, the denial of evil due to naivete or spiritual bypassing and misapplication of the higher truth that "All is One." The surface ego mind will keep you from facing evil within yourself, which [ironically] would contain the "remedy" for what we call "evil." So, we still have a long way to go. It is all in its due time in the context of the evolution of consciousness. Some are not ready for this process. Shadow Work has also become more popular, and with it, its distortions and over-simplifications. You can also easily fall into the "shadow bypass" by just intellectualizing the process [as I did for many years] or simply not understanding what shadow work entails. You hear that often when people say, "Not everything we see in the world is a projection of our shadow," "I'm done with shadow work. I don't project or have any triggers," "Are we just supposed to do only shadow work and be passive?" All three statements expose a lack of understanding of what shadow work is from a transpersonal psycho-spiritual perspective. Many people start it initially but fall off the wagon, easily tempted by the loosh of projections as it feeds their inner predator/wetiko. You can see it a lot in the "truth movement." It's much easier and more satisfying to blame others and project evil on the evil boogeyman, some group, "secret society," or some cabal that "rules the world." Real shadow work is messy as it entails a Putoinian descent into the depths of your being, facing everything you have suppressed, repressed, are afraid of, have avoided, and which you are completely unaware of as you project it on others. Shadow Work is inevitable on the path of awakening. Everyone will have to face it sooner or later, in his lifetime or the next one. All spiritual traditions have conveyed it in their own words and symbolism even before Carl Jung. The more you think of yourself as a good, virtuous, moral person [especially taking pride in that], the denser your shadow and unconscious evil within yourself. The more you project hate, anger, and disgust on people, groups, or individuals you deem as "evil," the more you are driven by your own unconscious evil, and the "matrix has you" as you keep re-creating and feeding evil externally. Moreover, the less you have made your shadow conscious and faced evil within you, the more likely you are to fall into psychological splitting and see others in oversimplified "good" or "bad" labels without nuance or any higher spiritual vision beyond the 3D material world. Before we can awaken, we must admit to ourselves how asleep we really are. Before we can genuinely discern truth and lies in the world out there, we must face the lies we tell ourselves first and foremost. This process is the hardest part for the avoidance, justifications, and rationalizations of the wetiko-infected mind will avoid the necessary “disillusionment” at any cost, getting stuck in blame and victim consciousness, self-pity, or self-importance. Godspeed. Bernhard Guenther