People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet,

learn the literature of the whole world, all because they cannot get on with themselves,

and have not the slightest faith that anything

useful could ever come out of their own souls.

Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.

Carl Jung. So today we're going to talk about some practical

steps you can take to work with the shadow. And I read you this quote because in many ways,

it is a representation of how many people struggle to do shadow work.

Because shadow work is a turning towards the darkness within us.

It's a turning towards the unknown, entering into the cave,

you know, mythologically and psychologically speaking.

And for most of us, that is a terrifying idea. We like the idea of being light chasers.

We live in a Western modernized culture where people have been indoctrinated into this idea

that you're not doing it right if you're not in the light. Yes, that's a little play on words

there by yours truly.

That's like as close as I get to creating rhymes. But you're not doing it right unless you're in the light.

And this idea has permeated most people's conception of what self-help and personal development looks like,

because they've gone to Tony Robbins seminars or Brennan Bouchard,

and they've been sold this bill of goods that tells them that they should feel great

while doing personal development, that you should feel great while doing this.

And sometimes the revelations that we have when doing deeper work, when doing depth work or

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