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RT @nick_routledge: @EsmeLKPartridge Humility lands as a bastard. Typically, Sages aver that fully owning psychic elements completely scotomized from consciousness and which touch into the essence of psychopathology and the perennial problem of evil, delineates a maturation that folk lean into only later in life.

‘. . . the intolerable pretensions of saints who have forgotten that they are sinners.’ -Reinhold Niebuhr, ND2:130 1/ Didn't he note that kind folk, especially, underestimate their capacity for self-deception? A tendency compounded by the occupational hazards of the Path. Around shadow work, other traditions provide essential complements. Buddhist existential psychology is worth a check in. Quote tweet: Indeed, for many, it can actively encourage and support it. I presume you know the growing body of work on 'spiritual bypassing'. Welwood, for example, described the correlation between certain psychological complexes and specific meditation practices. end/ Frankly, the most impressive locus of shadow work I've encountered hasn't been around a couch or with a 'religious current' per se, but in mensgroupwork Stateside, specifically @mankindproject, and #Illuman, a smaller initiative leaning more fully into God acknowledgement.
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‘. . . the intolerable pretensions of saints who have forgotten that they are sinners.’ -Reinhold Niebuhr, ND2:130 1/ Didn't he note that kind folk, especially, underestimate their capacity for self-deception? A tendency compounded by the occupational hazards of the Path. Around shadow work, other traditions provide essential complements. Buddhist existential psychology is worth a check in. Quote tweet: Indeed, for many, it can actively encourage and support it. I presume you know the growing body of work on 'spiritual bypassing'. Welwood, for example, described the correlation between certain psychological complexes and specific meditation practices. end/ Frankly, the most impressive locus of shadow work I've encountered hasn't been around a couch or with a 'religious current' per se, but in mensgroupwork Stateside, specifically @mankindproject, and #Illuman, a smaller initiative leaning more fully into God acknowledgement.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 May 2023

@dysangelistes @AlbertBikaj @ConservantRight @RichardRohrOFM: "I am afraid that the closer you get to the Light, the more of your shadow you see. Thus truly holy people are *always* humble people."

Copy of tweet: SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) [O]riginally the Christian tradition recognized that one carries the opposite within oneself. St. Paul said, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.” That’s the statement of a depth psychologist.~John Sanford, Meeting the Shadow 8:00 AM · Sep 20, 2022
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Copy of tweet: SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) [O]riginally the Christian tradition recognized that one carries the opposite within oneself. St. Paul said, “For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.” That’s the statement of a depth psychologist.~John Sanford, Meeting the Shadow 8:00 AM · Sep 20, 2022

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BremenBod Goes with the turf. Brilliant souls tend to be particularly blind to awareness other or larger than their own. No wonder spiritual bypassing correlates with a sense of exceptionalism. In effect, ego conflation is out of touch whereas humility functions as an ontic superpower.Quoted by@BremenBod Goes with the turf. Brilliant souls tend to be particularly blind to awareness other or larger than their own. No wonder spiritual bypassing correlates with a sense of exceptionalism. In effect, ego conflation is out of touch whereas humility functions as an ontic superpower.Quoted by@LamaSuryaDas end/ ...including the perennial challenge of spiritual bypassing. 🙏 ?s=20Quoted by@SophiaCycles Feels relevant to mention @MMeade_Myth and @RichardRohrOFM who both argue, as Jung, that life is divided into a first and second half, and who have done much work - with men specifically - in this regard. Fair to say, many of the finest souls I know come through group mens' work.