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Where love reigns, there is no will to
power; and where the will to power is
paramount, love is lacking.
I want to share an excerpt from my to complement the individual journey. If
Shadow Dance Workbook in examples of it takes over, it never works, because then
Shadow Work dialogues between myself it throws both people out of balance and
and my audience participant. it can’t work. You have to have individual
accountability, and if you put God on a
Audience: “I got the same message when person, then they will do whatever it takes
my husband died. I thought that he was to keep that intensity and glow alive, but
my soul mate and he completed me. a part of them has to die to maintain
When he died, I thought that part was this illusion because they can’t really be
ripped out of me. First, I swore to myself themselves. They can’t be true to who they
that I’d never love again, but gradually, are, and their Shadow will be more and
after about five years, I got it that I’ll more split-off because they need you to
never love that way again. What I saw love them as the magnificent person you’ve
as love was completely fantasy and what dreamed them up to be.”
I’ll bring to the next relationship, if there
is one out there for me is not that we Rebeca: “Yes, that makes sense now.
need each other for completion, but that One guy kept saying to me, “You don’t
we choose to be together while we work know me,” and it took years for me to
on our own completion. A good analogy understand what he was trying to tell
is two logs going down the river. They me. We have to tell each other the truth
each have their individual path, but that even when it hurts to do so. We want
doesn’t take away from the fact that each to know who that person really is, not
log is going down the river. No matter who they’re pretending to be for their
how close those logs get to each other, if sake as well as ours. At the same time,
they bump up against each other, they we have to make commitments to our
are still on their own individual journey. relationships for there to be a safe place
Something about that shared journey has to do shadow work.”
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