08/29/2021
Reintegrating the shadow…
“One of the central tenets of dreamwork is to learn how to become curious about, and eventually hospitable towards, the scary, repulsive, ambiguous figures that appear in our dreams. These "dark guests" are what Jung called the Shadow.
Whether through personal, cultural, or ancestral forms of exile, we all become distanced from the parts of ourselves that are devalued, discouraged, or disregarded.
Eventually, those rejected parts become strangers, even to us. I call these the refugee aspects of the self because they are marginalised, disenfranchised, and exiled from belonging. They are, in a sense, living on the fringes of our consciousness. They seek to re-belong themselves with us our whole lives.” - Toko-pa Turner
Photo of an abstract colorful illustration of a woman embracing a wolf, by Keith Negley Illustration
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