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The last class we did, the title was, Awakening Consciousness and Shadowey Times.

The notion is not that these are especially shadowy because I think all times are shadowy.

But I did decide to turn this into a two-part series just because it is a time that people

are kind of noticing the shadow.

And so last time we explored a little bit on how to relate to the fear and anger and

deceit that feels thick right now, especially in our current times of having what my husband

has called, Electile Disfunction.

We look at it and we've explored a little societally but primarily individually when we're

caught in trance and caught in reactivity and we know that there's unconscious forces

we're not really attending to, how do we pay attention to them, how do we wake up?

And social scientists have said that fear is seven times as likely as any other attitude

to spread socially and so it is internally.

We have a survival negativity bias and as soon as something is tripped off, it's very

quick that we get looping in fear and get looping in reactivity.

So in order to evolve individually and societally to counter that negativity bias, we really need

to wake up presence, wake up mindfulness and wake up love.

That's the antidote.

We'll continue the inquiry as I mentioned and I'd like to begin by naming what I think

is one of the most toxic and corrosive expressions of the shadow which is cynicism and I'm

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