Projecting the Shadow

Week 4:
Hi everyone, this is a really exciting topic the psycho-social aspects of religion, peace and violence. I read about 5 of the readings for this week and they all raised different issues about the psychological factors of terrorism. The fact that terrorists are usually well educated, come from middle class families. Terrorists are seen as rational showing no signs of psychopathology, terrorists are seen as freedom fighters, fighting for justice and freedom against the evil forces outside of themselves (the other). Here we can apply Jungian theories of people being blind to their own shadow side and instead projecting their own shadow side onto others, seeing the evil outside of themselves, not within themselves. I have decided to focus here on Jung and projection and go off line and talk about this in more depth as a psychological process.
My 15 year old daughter insisted that I watch The Breakfast Club with her. In the end succumbed, it is a incredibly insightful movie. It is all about 5 teenagers who end up in Saturday detention for whatever crime they commit at school. The five stereotypes that the teenagers represent are the criminal, the princess, the athlete, the brain and the psycho-nutcase. After a lot of anger, fighting, name calling etc, they gain some time free of the teacher who is supervising them. The 5 teenagers get some dope from the criminal’s locker and they all end up smoking the dope and bearing their souls to each other in an extremely vulnerable manner. They are five teenagers that don’t know each other and certainly would not talk to each other at school. What they discover is that even though they have been stereotyped by society, each one of them comes to the realization that inside of each and every one of them is a, victim, a princess, a criminal, an athlete, a brain and a psycho-nutcase. The scientific brain who gets A’s in physics, chemistry, biology etc, gets an F for shop. (shop would have been called manual arts in my day) However the criminal gets A’s in shop. The athlete turns out to be a criminal and a psycho-nutcase, the academic turns out to be a psycho-nutcase and a king, they all see the king, queen princess within themselves that delusionally sees themselves as, elite and superior to others. The princess finds out that in some ways she is inferior to the others present, that her heart is not as big as the others present. By the end of the day they have moved into unity consciousness, even though they are all different they are all the same. They can see a bigger picture, they can see that all the separated stereotypical labels that have been applied to them exist to some degree in each and every one of them.

This is what spiritual healing is all about or coming into a space of unconditional love. It’s not about pointing the finger at someone else and blaming someone else, it’s about confronting the enemy (one’s ego or what is called duality consciousness) within oneself and transforming the enemy within oneself, not fighting the enemy outside of oneself. It is called the path of the spiritual warrior, fighting the only enemy you truly have, yourself. It is the form of spiritual healing that indigenous shamans teach. I have been speaking out and being silenced within the academic world for many years, the academic world is the one place where spiritual healing is not taught. Fighting the enemy outside of one’s self is taught in secular universities in the form of thought delivered by Michael Foucault (political philosopher) who teaches spiritual irresponsibility, in the form of because both religion and science have failed to create peace, do whatever you want, that is the post-modern slogan of sceptism. I know I learnt all this and I am not referencing this, but when I finished my undergraduate degree, I threw out all of my notes and thanked Great Spirit for clearing human secularism out of my consciousness. Foucault teaches resistance and deconstructing the faults (the shadow) of the enemy outside of oneself. One of Foucaults major enemies was psychologists and psychiatrists, who by the way have found that spiritual healing practices such as prayer and meditation actually work and get positive results in the healing process. In his time Foucault was a sado-masochist who incited violent riots in the prison system and terrorist activities. (I can’t directly reference this information, however when I did political sociology as a subject in my undergrad degree, Professor Gavin Kendall a disciple of Foucaults allowed us to watch his DVD, in which it is clearly stated that Michael Foucault was a drug addict and a member of a sado-masochistic cult. I am pretty sure Sylvie if you rang Professor Kendall he would verify this information). The question I ask here is why is it that Buddhist Monks and Hindu’s take meditation into the prison system and spiritual healing starts to occur. Why is it that the Hawaiian Kahuna Psychologist, Haleakalla Hew Len, takes a job in a psychiatric prison and through spiritual practice transforms the violent behaviour of the prisoners. The prisoners went from being extremely violent to being allowed out on supervised day pass (in Freke, 199: 52-63). Why are there people now allowing prisoners to train guide dog puppies in the prison system, which helps the inmates find their inner beauty, and touch the nurturing or loving elements that exist inside of their souls. Why does Foucault walk into a prison and give a talk on social reform and the prisoners violently riot?????. What was his intention?????. How can Foucault write a book about discipline and punishment as an advocate against punishment, when he is a practicing sado-masochist. Michael Foucault writes from a place of victim consciousness, not from the space of healed person. He would be teaching the spiritual healing process, if he had experienced it, instead he teaches deconstructing the behaviour of those in power, who he has not forgiven. Forgiveness is a process in which our heart overflows with love and gratitude for our enemy and when we reach this level of forgiveness, we give love and healing in consciousness not only for those who have hurt us, but also for ourselves. The love comes from the divine source and if Sacks (the Rabbi) is on target he knows what I am talking about. When I did my undergrad degree I kept being shown by my higher self that every time I picked up Foucaults work I was being sunk into sado-masochistic teachings. It was confirmed by watching Professor Kendalls video on Foucaults life. I kept being shown in spiritual visions that because of my spiritual practices I would be labelled psychotic and I was labelled mentally ill, by one of the Professors who projected his own mentally unstable nature onto me. I was also shown that the energy drive of the human secularists is to genocide the religious and spiritual world and that is exactly what I experienced. In Smocks article on page 7 he writes about the political neglect of the religious dimension of life. The last thing that happened was that when the opportunity arose for one of the Professors to show compassion and sort through a problem with me, I was punished, as were other people who voiced their opinions about what was taught as part of the human secular theories. Whilst I was doing my undergrad degree, my higher self, cleared out of my consciousness, Marxism, Liberalism and Post Modernism, not one of these energy bases will help us to create a new more peaceful world. To heal the human secularists, which includes the politicians that control western society, have to spiritually transform and the way that will happen will be through spiritual healing. Hence why I keep praying for the spiritual healing and transformation of the human secularists and politicians. When they eventually see that they are filled with hatred and prejudice for the spiritual world, then and it is only then that they can see their reflection in the mirror and transform the shadow side of their nature. Sorry but I am not a fan of Foucaults work, because it is easy to detect that he writing from his own inner woundedness, not from a space of love. I am no better the Foucault because I have just deconstructed his work. However I have forgiven the Professor that labelled, punished me and wished for the annilation of spirituality and religion from the planet.

Fantastically enough in the Silberman’s article, she suggests on page 542 , that psychologists teach Muslims about all the good that USA government has done for them and how evil and corrupt some of their own Muslim leaders are. Somehow I think Silberman needs to do some inner searching into the corrupt activities of the USA government throughout the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s etc and search for ways of talking to USA government officials about their own acts of political terrorism in the middle east, before she starts pointing the finger at the Muslims. Then maybe reconciliation could follow. Obviously Silberman is blind to dark nature of the USA government and its acts of political terrorism in the middle east.
Looking at one’s own dark side and transforming the darker side of one’s nature is the hardest thing to do, because the ego wants to retain its control of one’s consciousness and continue the focus of duality consciousness (us versus them, right and wrong etc). I have done 15 years of spiritual healing work in which I was actively aware and participating in the process. Spiritula healing is an extremely painful process because one gets to look at the darker side of one’s nature and transform it. I spent 15 years locked away with two mildly disabled children, spending most of the time in silence, sickness and in the process of having my whole consciousness, from a DNA level and cell level transformed. The only contact I had was with family and other people who were spiritually healing. It was an extremely difficult period and actually I am still spiritually healing, but it has been well worth what I have gone through, I feel freer inside myself and I now exist in a state of inner peace 95% of the time.
It is actually through looking at the darker side of one’s nature that one moves from duality consciousness in which we see the evil as outside of oneselves (us versus them) and slowly transforms into unity consciousness and unconditional love. Once again this process is not taught in the university system, but this is the spiritual healing process and I will probably be repeating myself over and over again like a broken record and continue to be silenced by academics, community leaders, politicians, the fundamentalist religious and secular groups, but spiritual healing is a part of the process that one needs to engage in to find inner peace, love, faith, trust, understanding, wisdom and compassion. Eventually there will be enough love and understanding in the ethers of the mass consciousness that someone will listen and eventually spiritual healing will be taught in the University system. Reflecting on one’s own darker nature and transforming one’s darker nature has not yet been taught in the University system, the closest I have found to it is in Jung’s psychology of religion.
Until next week peace and blessings,
Angela Bardon