Zachary: Q’uo, I have a question.
On the spiritual journey we often first greet our
shadow and learn to recognize it as it subtly appears in our consciousness and lives,
and then ultimately we come to a place of acceptance of that shadow and a process of
beginning to integrate it back into the self in a more harmonious way. Can you give us
some advice on how that process of integration of the shadow can be done?
Q’uo: I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother. This is a query which is most
salient for each third-density entity within this illusion. You are, indeed, within an illusion
in which there seems to be separation of one from another, and all from each other, and
the path that all travel within this illusion involves the ability to integrate the various
portions of the illusion into one’s being, so that you become that which you seek: the
One Infinite Creator. However, each of you, within the third-density illusion goes through
what is called “the veil of forgetting,” so that you forget that you are already that which
you seek, and that you have come here to explore more avenues of traveling the path of
the One Infinite Creator to the One Infinite Creator. As each entity within this illusion
enters the illusion and begins at an early age to be taught by those around it—the
parents, the siblings, the friends and teachers, and so forth—each of these groupings of
entities may have a more or less distorted or undistorted vision of the unity of all
creation, and as the teaching process goes on for each young entity or soul within this
illusion, there are oftentimes admonitions that are given to the young entity demanding
that it not do this or that, that it not think this or that, that it not say this or that. Thus,
there is an accumulation of those admonitions to reserve or to not experience or
express various portions of its own being as this beingness comes forth in its evolution
into maturity.
Thus this evolution becomes tinted, or tainted, shall we say, with that which is put into
the shadows of the unconscious or the lower levels of the conscious so that they are not
totally dismissed by the young entity, but are held in a kind of reserve, so that from time
to time these shadow portions of the self that have been created by the educational
process in the young entity, make a portion of themselves apparent to the young entity
in perhaps an uncontrollable way, so that there is the disbursing of the dark energy,
perhaps in anger, perhaps in confusion perhaps in some way in which the young entity
is unaware that its own shadow side is seeking to express itself in a manner which may
or may not be consummate with the experience that the young entity is having.
As the entity grows into maturity, there is more and more of the addition to the shadow
side of the self that the young entity then begins to experience as a mature entity as that
which is not desired, that which is ignored, that which is not successfully repressed in all
instances. [It is necessary for each seeking self to] become aware of the shadow side,
and aware of not just its existence but its value, for there is a portion of the entity’s self
contained within the shadow side of the self that can add to the entity’s ability to explore
more of its own being as a representation of more of the environment in which it lives
and moves and has its being.
If the conscious seeker of truth, then, becomes aware of this shadow side, and within
the meditative state begins to invite more and more of this shadow self to reveal itself,
to invite the shadow self to sit in meditation with it, to sit and explore the true nature of
the entire being of this seeking soul, and of the creation as a whole, then the maturing
conscious seeker of truth begins to be informed in a manner which shows the origins of
this shadow side so that it may be seen to have been blocking various energies of
positivity and growth that were attempting to move through the entity as it experienced
the catalyst of its daily round of activities. There [may be] the invitation to the shadow
side to begin to reveal itself a little at a time so that the conscious seeker of truth can
see where each portion of the shadow side originated, where there was indeed positivity
that was shunned or discouraged, perhaps in areas of sexuality, in areas of individual
expression of identity that did not match with the consciousness of those teachers
around it, perhaps in areas of originality of creation that were not understood by the
teachers of the young entity so that these areas of creativity were shunned and shunted
into that shadow side of the self.
Thus, within the meditative state, by inviting these various portions of the shadow side
to express themselves to the conscious seeker of truth, this seeker then may discover
that within the shadow side there are qualities that are most helpful in the spiritual path.
Perhaps there is a toughness, a grittiness that can see one through difficult situations
because the shadow side has had to be shunned aside for so long. Perhaps there is a
creativity to the shadow side that may aid the spiritual seeker in looking at the daily
round of activities and the processing of catalyst of others, in a new or novel way that
aids the perceptions of the conscious seeker in a manner that allows it to become more
and more of the One Infinite Creator, and to see more and more of the One Infinite
Creator in those beings around one, in the environment around one, in every portion of
the existence that the spiritual seeker of truth is aware of.
