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Recieved: 2002/04/02 18:43
Subject: [K-list] Re: love again and again
From: el_bombastico256
On 2002/04/02 18:43, el_bombastico256 posted thus to the K-list: Can someone elaborate on what your shadow is? I heard about it, but
know little about it really.
--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., "rhjcrestone" <rhjcrestoneATnospama...> wrote:
> In my opinion, people who consider unconditional love as boundary-
> less merging are coming from a desperate, infantile place (and I
mean
> that literally, not as an insult) - as infants we're all like that,
> but an adult who's like that is terribly threatened by boundaries
and
> will have all kind of excuses in the name of love to tell you why
> they are right to stay stuck that way. Hey, tough love works, and
> sometimes that means showing people their shadow, which will cause
> some people to detonate in spectacular style. But then, we see
these
> deities like Kali, Bhairava, Mahakala with fangs and claws,
drinking
> blood and all that, and there's a reason for that (beyond all the
> Josph Campbell talk about how this represents this and that
> represents that)- it's simply that some aspects of this work can
feel
> like that at times, and people who are too afraid of their own
shadow
> will go off like skyrockets when things get down to brass tacks.
Too
> much of what we call "love" is an attempt to run away from life. It
> ain't easy, folks, but it sure is interesting. Like Disneyland,
only
> it doesn't close at night.
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