This episode explores the vital role suffering plays in psychological development and transformation. Far from being unnecessary or a glitch in existence, suffering serves as an essential guardrail in the development of self-knowledge.

In this episode, I cover:

- Why suffering is not a glitch but an energetic necessity in existence

- The dangers of trying to 'eliminate' suffering

- The two kinds of pain: the pain of harm and the pain of release

- Why spiritual bypassing and pharmaceutical approaches fail

- How meaning transforms our relationship with suffering

- The connection between suffering and freedom

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

🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:

- 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

- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits

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

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- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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This episode continues our exploration of evil by examining its inherently self-contradictory nature. Despite appearing powerful, evil contains the seeds of its own destruction through flagrant contradiction at every level.

In this episode:

- Why evil is marked by profound internal dissonance

- How Schelling described evil as "the self-consuming and always annihilating contradiction"

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

- Jung's insights into inflated consciousness that "dooms itself to calamities"

- Why hypocrisy isn't just a symptom of evil but its fundamental characteristic

- How evil attempts to "bend the absolute to the particular" and why this inevitably fails

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

🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:

- 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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📚 Additional Resources:

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

- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits

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

🎧 Podcasts:

- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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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.

🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:

- 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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📚 Additional Resources:

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

- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits

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

🎧 Podcasts:

- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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