Shadows

IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS LIKE~
 I am concerned about ______. I am afraid ______ will happen.
IT PROBABLY WILL. Lesson 26 ACIM

You HAVE to be congruent. The ‘persona’* that you project to the outside world can’t have any ‘shadows’* within otherwise you have a conflicted mind. You have to look at conflicting beliefs, thoughts and actions.

·         Are you ‘lovey dovey’ at church but a screamer at home.

·         Do you want money but you think people with money are crooks.

·         Do you want to do xyz but you think there’s a lot of competition doing xyz.

·         You want a relationship but you think all the good ones are taken or you’ll end up with someone with baggage. *Carl Jung Quotations: The Shadow and Persona

Surprisingly, the Christian New Testament may offer subtle insights into how the shadow can be detected and integrated. Jesus, during his famous sermon on the mount, asks,

[Read full article at Carl Jung and the Shadow: An Introduction ]

"Projection makes perception" (Text, p. 445)

Any split in will must involve a rejection of part of it, and this is the belief in separation. …

Projection will always hurt you.

It reinforces your belief in your own split mind, and its only purpose is to keep the separation going. …

Anger without projection is impossible.

The ego uses projection only to distort your perception both of yourself and your brothers. …

The Holy Spirit begins by perceiving you as perfect.

Knowing this perfection is shared, He recognizes it in others, thus strengthening it in both. Instead of anger, this arouses love for both, because it establishes inclusion. Perceiving equality, the Holy Spirit perceives equal needs. …

How else can you find joy in a joyless place except by realizing that you are not there?

You cannot be anywhere that God did not put you, and God created you as part of Him. That is both where you are and what you are. It is completely unalterable. It is total inclusion. You cannot change it now or ever. It is forever true. It is not a belief but a fact. Anything that God created is as true as He is. Its truth lies only in its perfect inclusion in Him, Who alone is perfect. To deny this in any way is to deny yourself and Him since it is impossible to accept one without the other. You can no more pray for yourselves alone than you can find joy for yourself alone. Prayer is the restatement of inclusion, directed by the Holy Spirit under the laws of God. God created you to create. You cannot extend His Kingdom until you know of its wholeness.
Thoughts begin in the mind of the thinker from which they reach outward. This is as true of God's Thinking as it is of yours. Because your minds are split, you can also perceive as well as think. Yet perception cannot escape from the basic laws of mind. You perceive from your mind and extend your perceptions outward. Although perception of any kind is unnecessary, you made it, and the Holy Spirit can therefore use it well. He can inspire perception and lead it toward God by making it parallel to God's way of thinking and thus guarantee their ultimate meeting. This convergence seems to be far in the future only because your mind is not in perfect alignment with the idea and therefore does not want it now.
The Holy Spirit uses time but does not believe in it. Coming from God, He uses everything for good, but He does not believe in what is not true. Since the Holy Spirit is in your minds, your minds must also be able to believe only what is true. The Holy Spirit can speak only for this because he speaks for God. He tells you to return your whole mind to God because it has never left Him. If it has never left Him, you need only perceive it as it is to be returned.

The full awareness of the Atonement, then, is the recognition that the separation never occurred. The ego cannot prevail against this because it is an explicit statement that the ego never occurred. …
(T,6,II)

Remember: Expect Miracles!