Nardine: For some time I have been reading your posts and expressions Paul, about Integral Practices, all quadrants, stages, levels, I-I-I, and whilst I have resonated with your words and conceptually embraced them, I had not actually comprehended/integrated it completely, until listening to this series of audios. I sense my voldness prefers to ...

Hi Joe-   Before I start this reply, lemme say that I happened to reread the first post I did in this thread and was thinking I could relate if it sounded offensive to someone identifying themselves with the White Light perspective.  Everyone has their own value system and sensibilities, I've been picked on for my own values before just like ...

Hi JT-   As I promised before this post is long, but I like the ideas brought up in it.  So, here goes:<JT>Hello everyone,I realize it’s been a very long time since I’ve posted here. This thread brings up an important question for me, in terms of the direction of The Shift. I had assumed that after it is complete, our dimension would be ...

Thanks, Dale.  Since I've spent a lot of time in various social circles that strongly subscribe to this general category I'm calling the Dark Aesthetic (Industrial, Gothic, Satanic/Left Hand Path/Occult, Horror, Martial Arts, ''current attitudes on 'manliness' in general'' etc. - I can't say that without a smile) I've been exposed to more ...

Howdy Paul -   Thanks for the input, it is always a treat to hear your input, especially with the broad area of various studies you have pursued outside of though often related to Seth's theories.  I think you are absolutely on the mark about typology and stage models.  I did not mean to imply in any way that either Light or Dark was in any way a ...

P.S. The nature of shadow projections (boxing and hugging) all follow suit in this stage model as well. So even at worldcentric and integral there ARE shadow issues in play. The shadow is a symptom of ego-separation, whether it's me, us, or all of us. It's only at All-That-Is-centric where shadow ceases to exist, because it is a nondual ...

I thought about this a bit, and I thought it should be equally important to note that to people who subscribe to the aesthetic of purified positivity (which I've been calling the ''White Lighters''), violence, harshness, and negativity (which are often of much interest to those I'm calling the Dark Aesthetes) are equally unpleasant, and their ...

   I began writing this because I was thinking that I would like to write material that appeals to people of my generation who appreciate a dark aesthetic in culture and philosophy and I would like to express to them that they should rethink the need they may feel to attack or mock people identifying with White Light culture.  Many times I have ...

Ellen Gilbert: ''posture = Projection, as in Jung's shadow projection, where I project splintered aspects of mySelf at others instead of owning up to them as a result of #1 and #2. The results are chronic ''shitstorms'' and seemingly never-ending hamster wheels.''I'd probably put projection under ''pushing away'' but that would be splitting ...

Emmy, I'm glad you got a fresh perspective Kineton, I'm glad your fibrillations have subsided, while I've not experienced them, I imagine they are not a cakewalk. I'm following an impulse to mention ''shadow projection,'' an area that the ghosts are ''weak'' or way incomplete on in my view. The shadow is a Freudian/Jungian discovery ...