The shadow projects onto other what we deny in ourselves. When you blame, condemn, criticize, and belittle others, you’ll be projecting your shadow. When you finish other people’s sentences, you’ll be projecting your shadow. When you judge people whom you don’t know, you’ll also be projecting your shadow. And when you point your finger at someone else, you’ll always have three fingers pointed at you.
When you surrender your life to the present moment, you become aligned with the divine power of the universe. It’s as if you say, “I love what you bring to me no matter what.” This is the power of presence. Your life is no longer centered around reaction, resistance, and conditional acceptance. It becomes based on surrender and peace.
When you fall in love with the mind (right-brain), you enter the realm of attachment and bondage. You become immersed in a place of rapture and bliss, for sure, but these are only the result of hormonal and chemical reactions from the brain. The release of neurotransmitters, however, are only temporary. The brain can’t keep dishing out serotonin forever. True love, on the other hand, comes from the heart, and is therefore not dependent upon biochemical stimulus.
The pain-body is a parasitical entity that feeds on emotional suffering such as anxiety, stress, and depression. It attaches itself to you at a specific time in early childhood that I call “the primal wounding.” This is a time when the ego becomes wounded because of some form of emotional trauma. This traumatic event usually comes from a parent, sibling, or schoolmate.
Our five senses are designed for pleasure. But when you believe that your five senses are the only reality, that your sense of smell, tastes, sight, hearing, and touch is all there is, you are limiting yourself from experiencing a much larger world. The mystical realm involves tuning into the higher six senses: clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (feeling, touching), clairvoyance (seeing), claircognizance (knowing), clairalience (smelling), and clairgustance (tasting).
Knowing whether or not you have free will begins with self observation. Certainly, you have the free will choice whether or not you can stop reading or continue reading this article. If you would like to have chicken for dinner rather than fish, you certainly have the free will to decide which one to have. If you decide to watch a particular program on TV, then you certainly have a choice as to what to watch. From these somewhat superficial perspectives, you could say that you do indeed possess free will.
Psychic abilities are becoming much more common amongst the general public. More and more people seem to be noticing — in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways — their higher senses such as clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), and clairsentience (feeling). People are getting hunches and premonitions that are more often that not, coming to past. They are reading other people’s thoughts before they speak them. And they are stretching out more with their feelings and “sensing” what to do or what not to do.
Our shadow gets projected onto others when we don’t want to face whatever is too painful to accept in ourselves. And so we do everything to keep these traits, behaviors, or issues out of sight. By ignoring them, we act is if they are not there. But not only does this bolster them, these same repressed angers, hurts, or shameful behaviors will get projected onto our mate in the forms of blame, judgment, and condemnation.
