The Collective Shadow (Psyche = Society)

[@TheDiamondNet]

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[@nicholaswilliams8470]

I have to watch your videos three times at .75 speed 😂. That makes me question my intelligence but I do like to fully grasp things before I move on to something else. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@TheDiamondNet]

You’re welcome! Thank you for checking out my videos. 🙂

[@ПетърСтойков-р8т]

That's how I read books, too. Even bad ones.

[@franciscoramirezespanagarc7974]

The 2020 pandemic was a wake up call for many of us

[@shawngay6533]

Great teaching! The complexity of humanity is a beautiful thing.

[@steratorefriends6596]

The beautiful Emerald with another great upload. I've been sharing your videos with a local rehab center. Very helpful. Thank you for your comprehensive breakdowns on important topics.

[@endlessnameless7004]

Jung's Undiscovered Self touches on this. It was my introduction to his work. Very fascinating.

[@quebecno1]

This book is essential if we're going to survive what's coming. Jung looked deeply into the structures of our collective and individual psyches and correctly predicted the danger we're currently facing. I hope there will be enough of us with the strenght and will to be fully realized individuals. This is our only hope against darkness.

[@nickolaikuznetsov1287]

I am always waiting for your videos to come! Enjoy listening to them!

[@TheDiamondNet]

I'm glad you like them! :)

[@nickolaikuznetsov1287]

@@TheDiamondNet I more than like them! They bring me back to life and help me find some undiscovered places in me!

[@TheDiamondNet]

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[@ahobimo732]

I feel the tension between the forces of chaos and order within myself very intensely. Because of former traumatic experiences, I have extreme anxiety. I put a tremendous amount of effort into building an orderly structured environment where I am not vulnerable. However, there is another part of me that deeply identifies with chaos. And this side of my personality feels trapped and isolated within the orderly structured spaces that I've created. I am at war with myself, and feel quite lost most of the time. And yet, even though I realize my own brokenness, I'm not able to change it. I see no better path better than the one I'm on.

[@inathi1329]

You sound like me. In my earlier years I was obsessed with creating stability for myself but then I would feel like I was constantly cracking open within the systems of stability I had put myself in. I have fearful avoidance (an internal push-pull dynamic within attachment). After doing extensive attachment reprogramming work I'm pretty stable now if I do say so myself. I dont feel the need to create stability anymore because I am stable within. If you look into attachment theory and how to reprogram the state you're in, its definitely possible to live in peace❤❤

[@asor8037]

Don't worry. Building order and structure to feel safe is a good thing up to a point, even if it can feel limiting sometimes. I've been doing this myself after experiencing deep traumas, and I've has just lately come to a point where my subconsious feel safe enough, and I've been able to embrace and let out the chaos underneath, without loosing my ground. It takes courage, and is not always fun but there's a priceless sense of freedom when deep fears are faced and rendered obsolete. I believe we are part of a larger whole, and doing whatever feels right at the moment is what we need to do at any given time. With perceverance and faith, a resolution inevitabely comes.

[@ahobimo732]

@@inathi1329 I have looked into attachment theory, and I'm pretty sure I'm also an anxious avoidant. The whole area of attachment and relationships is really the core of all of my emotional problems. Trust, vulnerability, connection... it's all related. It's been one hell of a long road, but I've actually made some progress recently. Hopefully it lasts.

[@eu0bservando]

I'd love to make Portuguese subtitles so I can share your videos with my father who loves this kind of content as well, as other Portuguese speakers for surel!! Let me know if you're interested!!

[@hab0272]

If many people were aware of the collective shadow it would replace a lot of conflict with understanding

[@inathi1329]

You did such a great job with this. It articulates something I've experienced and could never make sense of. Now I understand why a slums and suburbs exist right next to each other in my country👏🏽👏🏽

[@winifredlangeard6800]

Thank you for sharing your teachings with such presence and clarity! Love the little stars in your eyes when you talk about the expansion of humanity's consciousness. It's good to be reminded of the value of disintegrating forces that have the potential to leap us forward in more complexity and consciousness ; this idea is a powerful antidote to the ambiant doom and gloom. Indeed I am writing this in Montreal where we are once again under a smog alert because of the forest fires still burning up north... The ideas you express in this video align with Ken Wilber's integral theory and what he describes as "holons" developing deeper and deeper and integrating previous less complex holons. You may be familiar with his work?

[@marangozkahraman]

The way you explain it make me recognize the subject you are talking about.

[@n.1607]

Went from seeing my own shadow, worldly shadow to societal shadow/group shadow.. Now I can acknowledge it but integration is another level because it's super dark energy. My personal shadow resides at the psychological level (like astrology 7th & 8th house in scorpio) of sex, taboo, aggression & even death.. 😅 Methaphysical mind stuff... I guess that's why my mind is attracted towards psychology!

[@Kameldzdzdz]

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[@faerietech]

Great video as always ! - especially appreciate that you gave the examples of ancient African civilisations when explaining the material and socio-cultural conditions necessary for specialisation to occur, bc lots of ppl unfortunately fall into notions of "progression" and "civilisation" rooted ofc in histories of colonisation by the West. The anarchist impulse within me is questioning whether it is true that there were not teachers in hunter-gaterer societies - is teaching (and learning) not an intrinsic human-trait? Similarly with doctors - of course Western medicine did not yet exist, and much was unknown, but there were undoubtedly healers, and I think there has probably been so much knowledge of ancient plant-medicines, for example, lost through time too (and currently being lost)... Equally I don't want to idealise nomadic hunter-gathering as a knee-jerk reaction to my critiques of capitalism. I guess I'm just used to thinking specialisation is what has trapped us in hierarchical systems of oppression, but I am now rethinking this framing.. But, yeah, I don't mean to miss the point, and I'm v fascinated by the idea of the collective shadow (and I think it's very well explained here!) The meeting of "spiritualist" conceptions and political economy is I think very powerful. Thanks ! :)

[@TheDiamondNet]

Thank you for checking out the video! 🙂 With hunter-gatherer collectives of 15-20 people, there is certain to be the practice of teaching and medicine. But because agriculture and civilization had not yet taken root, no one could specialize in teaching. And no one could specialize in medicine. You have to get into a settled tribal society for there to be specialized roles like teacher or doctor. And then, and even more development has to happen for institutions to arise… from which many other careers arise. So a tribe will have a teacher and a doctor… but not necessarily a lawyer because there isn’t a court as a bureaucratic institution until you get larger and more complex civilizations like Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, etc. Then as society and technology gets more and more complex, we get deeper and deeper levels of specialization… which brings a lot of things into the collective consciousness.

[@mateuszkuzma8029]

I'm thankful that you're back with uploading videos 🙏😌 So, for example sexuality in catholic society is put in the shadow...

[@emiliorodriquez5677]

Thank you.

[@Walter-kn5te]

Very interesting. I had never thought before of a collective shadow and ego.

[@ulsk7329]

so eloquently delivered! Thank you!

[@ПетърСтойков-р8т]

Thank you for this! I think it's a masterpiece.

[@JoeyKastelic777]

I'd love to see what goth Emerald was like 😳😵

[@nxthing.]

What exactly does the ego put in the shadow- memories, traits ego doesn't Id with, unmet needs thoughts

[@nxthing.]

The stuff that does to the shadow does it go there to be reconciled or forgotten

[@nxthing.]

Can you make a video on how the unconscious appears in everyday life how to spot it and how mental and emotional barriers come in to play

[@nxthing.]

Lastly your one of the best doing this none the less for still active 🖤 thx for the free knowledge

[@drlee6243]

Brillliant!

[@95TurboSol]

So were you a Cradle of Filth, Tristania Goth or more of a MCR, Evanescence goth? (AKA Mall Goth😄 )

[@TheDiamondNet]

Neither. I was never into Emo or Screamo… nor the gothy pop-rock of Evanescence. Though I did like a couple of their songs. Never cared for Cradle of Filth or MCR because (even though MCR is much more melodic) they both had the sound that was in every rock song from 2003 to 2009… which my ears were so tired of. So if I were to describe myself… I was more of a thrift store, art-girl goth with a combo of Goth Lolita and early Tim Burtonesque aesthetics… that listened mostly to Grunge and Progressive rock from the 90s. Think less Hot Topic and more Lydia Deets on a budget. 🤣

[@95TurboSol]

@@TheDiamondNet "Thrift store Goth", that's one I've never heard, I love it 😂

[@ahobimo732]

​@@TheDiamondNetPlease forgive the creepy dude admiring you from his dark corner. He's unsettling, but he treads very carefully.

[@cmdrsliman]

All the shadow stuff becomes a bit abstract and convoluted. She's right about how we categorise into good and bad, part of our Christian heritage, and instinct to work out what is safe. But these are simply the categories of the understanding. We over categorise, which means we overuse cause and effect. This is what Nietzsche pointed out, and so we live mythologically, projecting our story about the world onto our experience. Jung got his ideas from Nietzsche and developed the unconscious mythology and shadow. But these things don't really exist, the categories do exist in a pragmatic sense, but that is all. Our actions and behaviours are a product of the environment we grow up in and to some extent genes. We consciously interpret what we do as if our conscious mind had intended it, Jung pointed this out too. His reason was to prevent our relatively young consciousness from being dissolved into the unconscious. But really it's just categories, and our inability to think independently, we're caught in innate obedience to the authorities from our past. Our experiences determine our emotions which determine our behaviour. . take something on or be afraid of the world. The moral categories reinforce this. Let go of these categories if you want freedom. Really the main thing is to notice how you categorize everything all the time, the shadow is just another category. Think for youself, without piling obstacles in your path.

[@AntoniKrokodyl]

Rather brainy but cool. I liked it.

[@DJSTOEK]

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[@cory5478]

The term (trendy buzz word) ‘shadow” is annoying me for some reason. Isn’t it just part of our personality?