I wanted to share with you all that I'm taking a really profound course myself called Battle Magick hosted by Carolyn Elliott/Lovewell who is the author of the book “Existential Kink” (a must read)
This course is a true in-depth practice of Shadow integration work alongside some ancient Hermetic Magick rituals. I want to focus though specifically on the Shadow work. I feel that this type of practice, one that I have been doing for a long time, has been the key to liberating myself from a lot of my mental conflicts and scarcity minded beliefs around who I think I am.
I teach this type of work in all of my courses and one-on-one mentorship and in the same right I recognize that I am always a student as well.
What is Shadow work?
Many of you may have heard this term, and also may not fully understand what it is. In my own definition I see this as a means to looking at all the parts of yourself that is locked in your subconscious and likely parts of you, that you despise, feel ashamed about, or hide from because you feel you “shouldn't” think or feel those things based on what you were taught about right and wrong, good and bad.
The “work” so to speak is getting radically honest with yourself and those parts of yourself and bringing them into clear awareness into your conscious mind so you can transmute it into balance vs repress it into disease.
The best quote that Carolyn often says is… which I have written in my previous emails:
“UNTIL YOU MAKE THE UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS IT WILL RULE YOUR LIFE AND YOU WILL CALL IT FATE” - CARL JUNG
If you want to know what your unconscious narrative is, then look at your life, and see where your patterns are repeating and how much you are re-creating things that you believe you don't like, (when secretly you do that is the Existential Kink)
There is so much here to talk about and share, but i'll give you a point form run down:
Hiding from the things we despise and not bringing that into our conscious mind only perpetuates those things and allows them to grow
What we see in others is a good indication of our judgements about ourselves
Bringing the dark parts of ourself to light has to be done WITHOUT SHAME otherwise it's feeding them even more
Our lives are exactly how we want them to be based on our subconscious programming, finding that existential kink that we get off on our scarcity and suffering will help us transmute that into the life our conscious mind actually wants
All this isn't your fault it was created during times of influence and programmed without your consent (most likely)
Accepting this is the key to our liberation and the liberation of the repressed evil in our world
That's the nutshell, of course there are layers and nuances but here's a good place to start looking. I know this seems vague and possibly confusing however if it intrigues you then you may want to pick up her book and begin learning more!
Mush Love
Sari Starr
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