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I couldn’t see myself, until I actually He must recognize and accept
experienced what my first husband had the other in himself. But if he
felt, as well. When I saw my own behavior,
and felt my own feelings toward that persists in his one-sidedness, the
behavior, I was able to connect the dots two lions will tear each other to
and forgive him and myself. pieces.
This is a very moving story because she integrated your own shadow.
entered into this crucible consciously. She
went into a relationship knowing full well “If the projected conflict is to be healed,
she had some stuck places and that she it must return into the psyche of the
needed a relationship’s reflection to see individual, where it had its unconscious
herself. That to me is powerful. Most of beginnings. He must celebrate a Last
us caught in this kind of situation cannot Supper with himself, and eat his own
take back the projections. As in my own flesh and drink his own blood; which
story of my skin rash, her emotional body means that he must recognize and accept
helped her to process. Once you can feel the other in himself. But if he persists in
something in your body, you got it. She his one-sidedness, the two lions will tear
said, “I not only embraced the bitch in each other to pieces. Is this perhaps the
me, but my whole being forgave him as I meaning of Christ’s teaching, that each
recognized the violence in me!” must bear his own cross? For if you have
to endure yourself, how will you be able to
When situations like this are repeating in rend others also?
your life, it is difficult because you have
to admit it to yourself. “This is something Such reflections are justified by the
about me. Something that I myself do or alchemical symbolism, as one can easily
would secretly like to do.” see if one examines the so-called allegories
a little more closely and does not dismiss
She then said, “I was able to call him up them at the start as worthless rubbish. The
while he was still alive and say, “Gosh I miraculous feeding with one’s own substance
am really sorry.” She told him the truth — so strangely reflecting its prototype, Christ
about her two subsequent marriages — means nothing less than the integration of
and said to him, “Please forgive me. I those parts of the personality which are still
am very, very sorry.” She was able to go outside ego-consciousness.”
through this process and complete it —Carl Jung, CW: 14, Mysterium
because she could feel it. When you feel Conuinctionis, paragraphs 512-513
the forgiveness in your body, you have
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