Shadow
We carry our shadow as a psychic burden that finally weighs on everything within us, individually and societally. The nature of our being cannot contain the shadow indefinitely. It is our nature to integrate it through activity and ritual. Meaning is contained in the connection with each other and nature. Anything short of that creates a blockage, allowing the shadow to build.
When we integrate our shadow nothing is wasted. The energies that were needed to contain it are released, and wholeness is realized once more.
For my part, I try to integrate the blockages by creating "conduits" of expression. Valves that regularly open up and excise the burdens of being human.
Ego and humility, at one and the same time, are a constant necessity. The fine line that allows for civilized humanity to connect, express and (who knows) transcend(?)
