Shadow Work: Illuminating the Hidden Part of the Unconscious

[@metamorphosis_77]

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." -Carl Jung

[@martynfosterqwan]

Great video, Adrian. I also love the font change, artwork/images and transitions. Congrats on the 100k+ subscribers and 4m+ channel views. Perfect time to explore the shadow with Halloween just around the corner.

[@metamorphosis_77]

thank you my brother. Still experimenting. I have a plan for lemmino style videos soon. I just need to sort some things out first :)

[@ejesunday1790]

Purpose is what allows us add structure to our life and eventually control it

[@ramonalewis6050]

Thanks for the video, Adrian ❤ I always try to interpret my dreams. Not easy. I do write down what I remember but it's usually a snippet of something I'm totally unfamiliar with.

[@metamorphosis_77]

It's very difficult to do that by yourself. You always do that with a therapist.

[@ramonalewis6050]

​@@metamorphosis_77thanks Adrian. Always appreciate your help.

[@lucasfc4587]

great video!!!

[@adrian.martell]

Incredible video 🔥🔥

[@metamorphosis_77]

Thanks 🔥

[@gen-x-zeke8446]

Exactly what God is made of. God is both Good and not so great to be the one.

[@orangeroad_]

hmm I wanna to dissect my psyche a little bit, so, a recurrent theme in my dreams, has always been of sexual nature, but they aren't arousing, relaxing sexual dreams, but of, intrusive, terrifying thoughts, of "trans people" and of "homosexual nature". Now, throughout my traditional upbringing, we were always against these ideas, especially since I admire masculinity wholeheartedly, and I always strive to be masculine, as an innate desire. So I started hating these sexual inclinations. But the ultimate reason why I hate them, and why I think they keep recurring in my dreams, is because, It feels like an ideological battle, massive amounts of efforts are invested towards the dissemination of such ideas throughout the media, the movies, the entertainment industry in general, it is these intentional efforts that made hate these liberal ideas more and more. Now, since I consume western media, a lot, I found that a constant exposure to these ideas, induced in me a kind of doubt. The rate of homosexual people I meet has increased a lot, so, a kind off OCD doubt has been induced into my mind of "what if I am gay?", a thought which has kicked me off into fight or flight mode constantly, and has distressed me a lot, since being heterosexual has been a part of my identity, so my identity is in risk. Sooo, these are the explanations I've gathered so far, I will try to accept these sexual inclinations as normal for now, even though I deeply am against that, due to my traditional values, and I will see the result, however, this just feels like brainwashing at it's core, and it might be the core of my distress, you're not a therapist, but a philosopher, so I need some psycho philosophical guidance to finally resolve my shadow. And thank you in advance.

[@metamorphosis_77]

This is a very delicate topic so take my advice with a grain of salt. The only thing that I can say is that a recurring theme I have noticed in my dreams is that I experience either fears or desires. The fact that you have internal conflicts plays a role for sure. Your environment and your values are two conflicting realms, so your subcunscious is struggling to find a balance. From what you are saying I am gravitating more towards the fear aspect. Try to observe your thoughts without self-judgement and I would strongly advice psychotherapy.

[@orangeroad_]

@@metamorphosis_77 Yes I thoroughly comprehend that, there is definitely a psychological conflict deep within my psyche. After some more reflection, I realized it's all a mix of obsessive doubts, inferiority complex regarding the west, personal dreams, and cultural values. And they play out in complex manners that gave rise to these recurrent themes in my dreams. So, I will probably keep on dissecting my psyche more, and perform an autopsy on my soul until I resolve this issue. And thank you very much dude.

[@orangeroad_]

@@metamorphosis_77 But I kinda want to ask you, do you have any consistent techniques to systematically deconstruct my psyche, and find out the core of most of these psychological conflicts? And thank you again.

[@snooglehound1285]

I can relate to your struggle at least a bit. I was raised in the US but in a very conservative and rural area. Homosexuality was seen as a horrible thing and in my high school of 2000 students I only recall one openly gay student. As a became an adult and moved out of that culture I began to struggle because I met gay and trans folks who were not horrible people, and I was confused. Then one day I made an interesting observation about my early days in school. That was an elementary school of 300 students and only one was black. As a child that seemed normal but in hind sight rather odd. I began to look closer and realized there were almost no black students, not because they were so few, but because they were segregated (unofficially) in another school further out in the county. I realized that some part of my life had been shaped around lies and so I began to question everything. Why so few gay students? Not because they did not exist but because they would been attacked if they came out. I realized a few of my school friends were gay and bisexual. My questioning became very stressful when I began to talk to other old friends about meeting gay folks and that they were ok people just like straight folks. Friends I had for years began questioning if I was gay, and I had to ask them so what if I was? They said they could not have me at their house if I were gay or continued to be supportive of gays, because people might think they were gay. They were willing to give up 30 year friendships because I was actually speaking the truth, and because of what other people might "Think". The irony is that I am not gay and have no attraction toward men. But I have learned a lot about myself and what it means to think for myself. I have pondered many questions and come to a few conclusions. One societies can and will perpetuate lies, so find your own truth and your own values. Accept that the road to truth may require you break some relationships but for me I would rather lose people than live outside my values based on "my" not someone else's truth. Also to be quiet honest if I ever do meet a man and am attracted to them I will not feel bad about it because it would not be wrong, it would just be part of my truth. I think for myself and refuse to follow things I do not believe in. Not sure if this helps you in any way but thought I'd share my experience.

[@metamorphosis_77]

thank you for this incredible comment @@snooglehound1285

[@mareczek00713]

"By recording our dreams..." - you guys actually have dreams?

[@metamorphosis_77]

haha. You don't?

[@mareczek00713]

@@metamorphosis_77 Not for last 25 years... and I'm just 31...

[@itsrinayaaa]

You do, you just don't remember them. If you start dream journaling, you'll eventually remember them completely. (You'd, for example, start by waking up with the journal next to you. After some days/weeks, you'll automatically start to remember your dreams) That being said, there may be a reason on why you can't remember them - so if you do want to start journaling them, I'd advice getting therapy with it!

[@mareczek00713]

@@itsrinayaaa There is nothing to track to begin with

[@itsrinayaaa]

@@mareczek00713 Yes, thats why I said the diary/journal has to be next to you when you wake - so that you immediately think of wanting to journal the dream -> this will lead to you starting to remember them.

[@venusian.academy]

Amazing video! Always enjoy a good Jungian conversation. 💗 Are you familiar with the Tibetan Book of the Dead? Jung seemed to be very influenced by it. It’ll be amazing if you could talk about that some time in the future.

[@metamorphosis_77]

Νo but will check it out :)

[@venusian.academy]

Your videos are missed, Adrian