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Recieved: 2002/04/02  18:43  
Subject: [K-list] Re: love again and again 
From: el_bombastico256
  
On 2002/04/02  18:43, el_bombastico256 posted thus to the K-list: Can someone elaborate on what your shadow is?  I heard about it, but  
know little about it really.
 
--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., "rhjcrestone" <rhjcrestoneATnospama...> wrote: 
> In my opinion, people who consider unconditional love as boundary- 
> less merging are coming from a desperate, infantile place (and I  
mean  
> that literally, not as an insult) - as infants we're all like that,  
> but an adult who's like that is terribly threatened by boundaries  
and  
> will have all kind of excuses in the name of love to tell you why  
> they are right to stay stuck that way. Hey, tough love works, and  
> sometimes that means showing people their shadow, which will cause  
> some people to detonate in spectacular style. But then, we see  
these  
> deities like Kali, Bhairava, Mahakala with fangs and claws,  
drinking  
> blood and all that, and there's a reason for that (beyond all the  
> Josph Campbell talk about how this represents this and that  
> represents that)- it's simply that some aspects of this work can  
feel  
> like that at times, and people who are too afraid of their own  
shadow  
> will go off like skyrockets when things get down to brass tacks.  
Too  
> much of what we call "love" is an attempt to run away from life. It  
> ain't easy, folks, but it sure is interesting. Like Disneyland,  
only  
> it doesn't close at night.
 
 
  
 
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