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Originally posted by Otamad
I've read a bit on this theory of thought manifestation, involving 2012. Can someone please clear things up a little. From my understanding, if we think about what we want to happen, that will happen? Is there a difference between thinking of something you want and truly believing it? Of all the threads I've come across, this idea or theory is one that has had the most effect on me. I find it scary, but only because I don't understand it.
I also read that each person will have their own 2012 experience based on what they think will happen, or what they believe will happen. Again anyone who knows what they are talking about fill me in here.
Originally posted by Otamad
Thanks for the reply bsbray11. I understand what your saying, but I'm not sure if your examples fully covered what I was thinking. I will have to watch this thread to see if I can get some more answers.
Originally posted by iAnjo
From the reading the posts it looks like you just got to think positive and never negative. Time to change some parts of myself.
Originally posted by iAnjo
So what do you suggest?
In Jungian psychology, the shadow or "shadow aspect" is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. It is one of the three most recognizable archetypes, the others being the anima and animus and the persona. "Everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is."[1] ...
According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to projection: turning a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. Jung writes that if these projections are unrecognized "The projection-making factor (the Shadow archetype) then has a free hand and can realize its object--if it has one--or bring about some other situation characteristic of its power." [3] These projections insulate and cripple individuals by forming an ever thicker fog of illusion between the ego and the real world. ...
Jung also made the suggestion of there being more than one layer making up the shadow. The top layers contain the meaningful flow and manifestations of direct personal experiences. These are made unconscious in the individual by such things as the change of attention from one thing to another, simple forgetfulness, or a repression. ...
'The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself' and represents 'a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well'[16]. If and when 'an individual makes an attempt to see his shadow, he becomes aware of (and often ashamed of) those qualities and impulses he denies in himself but can plainly see in others - such things as egotism, mental laziness, and sloppiness; unreal fantasies, schemes, and plots; carelessness and cowardice; inordinate love of money and possessions -...[a] painful and lengthy work of self-education'[17].