{"id":2068,"date":"2017-02-24T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2017-02-24T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T00:47:59","slug":"shadow-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/shadow-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The &#8216;shadow&#8217; is a term representing the personal unconscious, or the psychological material that we repress, deny, dissociate, or disown. Unfortunately, denying this material doesn&#8217;t make it go away; on the contrary, it returns to plague us with painful neurotic symptoms, obsessions, fears, and anxieties. [&#8230;] One of the lessons that we learned the very hard way &#8230; is that if you don&#8217;t do shadow work, [all your other efforts] can get sabotaged by your own unconscious. [&#8230;] Your shadow can accompany you all the way to enlightenment and back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Ken Wilber (<em>The Integral Vision<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So true, and yet it&#8217;s still unclear to me how this fits into Ken Wilber&#8217;s\u00a0model\u00a0of life, the universe, and everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The &#8216;shadow&#8217; is a term representing the personal unconscious, or the psychological material that we repress, deny, dissociate, or disown. Unfortunately, denying this material doesn&#8217;t make it go away; on the contrary, it returns to plague us with painful neurotic symptoms, obsessions, fears, and anxieties. [&#8230;] One of the lessons that we learned the very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/shadow-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shadow work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}