This episode explores the challenging but crucial topic of evil and morality within shadow work. Despite a cultural obliviousness to evil and what it is at core, we all have an archetypal understanding of it at the unconscious level.

In this episode:

- Why deeply understanding evil and morality is the natural endpoint of shadow work

- How Jung's view that "everything that becomes too old becomes evil" applies to our psychological patterns

- Schelling's profound insight that evil is the use of freedom to violate freedom

- Why hypocrisy is the fundamental sin

- The concept of the "Dissonance Loop" and how it manifests in everyday life

- Why even our highest virtues contain the potential for evil

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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This episode examines the true nature of defense mechanisms, revealing how what is often dismissed as psychological "defense" serves a vital role in the development of self-knowledge.

We explore:

- Why defense mechanisms aren't inherently negative

- The crucial distinction between defense and offense

- A recap of the eight kinds of projection and recognition

- How defense becomes offense when used to violate freedom

- Why projection and empathy are intimately connected

- How defensiveness serves growth when properly understood

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real

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This episode examines the mechanics of projection beyond its conventional understanding in shadow work, revealing a comprehensive framework for understanding how we perceive ourselves in the world.

This episode explores:

- Why the standard "it's just your projection" narrative is insufficient and self-contradictory

- The fundamental mechanisms behind how the mind renders experience

- The relationship between projection and empathy

- The Projection Matrix: an 8-fold system accounting for conscious/unconscious, light/dark qualities, and wholesome/unwholesome intentions

- Why we don't only project shadow qualities - but also aspects relating to our conscious positions

- How projection can serve both self-knowledge and self-avoidance

- The connection between projection, negation, and the dialectical process

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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This episode explores empathy from a psychospiritual perspective, revealing it as the fundamental quality that enables genuine shadow integration. I explain why empathy is "the willingness to meet and be transformed by experience" and how this differs from conventional understandings.

In this episode:

- Why empathy is grossly misunderstood in our materialist cultural context

- How Jung's famous quote about "the meeting of two personalities" reveals the essence of empathy

- The relationship between empathy and the Shadow Map model

- Why a lack of empathy leads to a rigid self-concept and resistance to transformation

- The irony at the heart of existence and how empathy helps us navigate it

- Practical ways to cultivate genuine empathy using the Seven Habits framework

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping

- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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This episode explores psychological adulthood - a key threshold in the development of meaningful self-knowledge. This episode touches on:

- The difference between biological and psychological adulthood

- Taking responsibility for your mind and recognising how it shapes your reality

- The Fool's journey as a metaphor for psychological development

- Breaking free from left-brain dominance and power-seeking behaviours

- Why psychological adults honour each other's freedom

- Jung's insights on the youthfulness of modern society

- The role of nature in mental health

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping

- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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This episode explores the integration of three incomplete paradigms - religion, materialism, and psychology - as the "enormous spiritual task" Jung warned was essential for civilisation. I examine how each perspective provides valuable insights but creates shadow when taken alone. The Seven Habits of Individuation model offers a practical framework that unites understanding, morality, and discipline to address both personal and collective shadow material. The episode covers:

- The three paradigms of religion, materialism and psychology - and how each is incomplete

- Why the integration of these paradigms is necessary for personal and collective development

- How western society oscillates between materialism and attempts at spirituality

- The Seven Habits of Individuation model as a framework for this integration

- Why mysticism might represent the synthesis our fragmented approaches need

- The consequences of failing to address our shadow material on a civilisational level

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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In this episode of Mapping The Shadow, we explore Jung's concept of "circumambulation of the self" - the circular journey of psychological development that underpins Shadow Mapping.

This episode covers:

- Why Jung believed there is "no linear evolution" in psychic development

- How the circular journey from self to world and back creates transformation

- Why we keep encountering the same patterns in our lives

- The relationship between mandalas and the structure of consciousness

- How this circular pattern appears in the Shadow Map model

- Why growth involves both outward movement (Eros) and return (Thanatos)

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

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This episode explores how Personality Type systems and tarot symbolism can help you understand your shadow dynamics. Learn how to use the Shadow Map™ model with Myers-Briggs types and tarot cards to identify your conscious patterns and shadow aspects.

The video covers:

- How to apply the Shadow Map to personality types like INTP and INFJ

- Why your opposite type reveals crucial aspects of your unconscious

- How tarot symbols like The Fool and The Moon contain both light and dark aspects

- Practical examples of mapping your inner dynamics using symbolic systems

- Examples from Princess Diana's birth chart showing how symbols manifest in life

- How personality traits become one-sided and contradict themselves

This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.

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