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Here's the question today.

What do you do with shadow material? And for context,

they write, is it enough to just become aware of your shadows, or does it require a fixing of oneself?

What is the process of processing it? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the shadow. What if I'm aware, but still don't like the shadow? Robert Johnson talked about

rituals for the shadow. Can you speak about that in more depth and perhaps provide some examples?

I love the pragmatism of a question. You know, I think it's, it can be fun for me to

think about ideas and they can have such feeling for me.

But I appreciate it when someone challenges me to say, yes, but on the ground.

Right.

Like, what does that look like as your movement through the world?

That's always a creative application of it.

Well, it makes me want to sort of quickly address this, what I think is a misperception in the culture with all of the stuff now around shadow.

And it's kind of been a social media sensation, the idea, there's been books and that kind of thing.

You can't fix the shadow.

The point is not to self-flageulate and purge your negative qualities.

That isn't going to happen.

You can't do that.

So some people talk about shadow almost in a puritanical way.

You know, there's a long religious history of examining ourselves for moral

failings and then trying to rid ourselves extirpate those qualities by, I don't know,

wearing a hair shirt or flagellating ourselves or starving ourselves. Whatever the modern

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