A demon descends - an unexpected way to stand strong in the face of... evil?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2024
- Persistently negative and/or critical people can be hard to be around. So, what should we do when we have someone of this kind in our lives?
This video takes a look at the potential causes of chronic negativity through a Jungian lens, and considers our options in handling this type of behaviour (in both ourselves and others).
References:
"Shadow in Evil and Fairytale", Marie-Louise von Franz
"Alchemy", Marie-Louise von Franz
"Romancing the Shadow", Dr. Connie Zweig and Dr. Steve Wolf
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The ridiculous quality of your presentations, level of depth, and broad intellectual context (from Jungian archetypes to their societal representation) delivered with a practical and aware approach to life never ceases to amaze me. You truly have become one of my favorite channels and I genuinely look forward to watching your new videos. I discovered Jung later in life and it is evident the man was far ahead of his time and still woefully under-appreciated. Thank you for your wonderful work. It is clearly a labor of love-and its quality proves that.
Thank you so, so much! This means the absolute world to me.
And this channel absolutely is a labour of love, but it’s also a labour I _do_ love, so I’m super grateful for that 🤍
I second that 👍
Agree - nice work
People who hurt inside hurt others. Remembering that helps me handle those people. Graceless, cantankerous people cause misery, esp. when it's hard to walk away. Thanks for video.
Yes, exactly. It really does help, though it doesn’t make anything _easy_ of course.
Thanks for this comment 🩶
The world is pretty messed up right now, and a lot of people can't afford (especially in the US) to access good mental health care. Your channel, and the associated app, is one of the very few I frequently recommend to others. You bring the perfect balance of honesty, depth, brevity and usefulness to what is usually a short, 10 minute, accessible video most folks can watch on a work break. I also find your story based approach a far better, more relatable (and useful) approach than the typical talk therapy stuff. We all are living our own stories, We all spend much of our entertainment time reading and watching stories. And we become the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
It's really cool that you do this, and I suspect, you help far more people than will ever comment here.
Thank you so much for this beautiful comment.
And I absolutely agree: story is at the heart of everything. I think the mental health industry simply has to keep moving in that direction 🤍
To me: Another eye-opener from Hazel. We started by thinking about perpetually critical people and ended up with a engrossing plea for creativity as the way to fight evil. I feel like my tectonics are shifting. This is like an ancient voice call for the true self to rise.
Omg, I _love_ that last sentence! An ancient voice call for the true self to rise. Honestly, I feel like this may be the most inspiring thing I’ve read in some time. I want to plug into that voice and never disconnect.
@@Betwixt_App Yes. (And thank you. :) And then: I am plugged in, I feel it setting up a tent at the bottom of me, somewhere. The next day, or the next moment, I am straining again to please or to control others or myself beyond my abilities, my liking and my desire. Until I become present again and let the words sink in, let the calling take space. I have squandered to much time. I forgive myself and learn to let go of what drowns out said unimposing, delicate yet ceaseless call for my true self to rise. And then, I lovingly do the dishes, on a good day.
I had a friend who I tried to help through a personal problem. I listened for hours, gave advice that came from a place of kindness and support. This person in turn attacked me and became manipulative and attempted to damage my relationships with others. I knew I could not help this person. They were heading towards a train wreck. I wasn't going to be a part of the train wreck, or try to help someone who didn't want to be helped. So I walked away. It was one of the best things I ever did. Walking away protected me, prevented my energy from being sucked out of me, and prevented further damage to my relationships. I don't know what ultimately happened to the person but I hope they're all right. Sometimes, cutting ties is what you have to do.
Yes, absolutely. It’s almost always hard but sometimes best for everyone involved. I’m sorry you went through that 🤍
I Love this part: "Jung taught that one of the most wicked, destructive forces, psychologically speaking, comes from unused creative power or energy. If someone has a creative gift, a creative urge, or just your run of the mill desire to make something, but they don't because they're too afraid of judgment or they don't feel like they're allowed nice stuff, or because they feel pressured to take a different path in life, then it's the demon of the archetype that will take hold.
Jealous, frustrated and devastatingly adept at understanding the world around it. The demon side of the shadow artist, if you like, will try to destroy all other people's creativity through criticism, derision and the pretense of superiority.
The only way for that to stop is for this person to take all of that energy and channel it into the thing they actually want to be doing. "
That's going in my Journal.
I’m super glad it landed! This has always made so much sense to me, too 🤍
This is extremely appreciated. Over life I have evolved from a quiet person that rarely speaks out to a (still mostly quiet) person that might speak up a little too much. This really helps me examine my own behavior and how it might affect others. Thank you!
Also - I just got some overalls today and it is cool to see you rockin' 'em too!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🤍
And you’ve gotta love a good pair of overalls! 🤩
This is great. I find that another reason for criticism is people who are trying to "prove" their intelligence. For some, the definition of intelligence is the ability to find fault in something, and they try to prove their worth by how much they can tear something down, how may faults they can find. The lower the self esteem, the more they criticize. It's understandable, pitiable, and toxic as all hell.
Yes, absolutely. I’d say these things go hand in hand. And it can become a very sticky situation 🩶
These videos are brilliant. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! 😍
Wow, never has a video been more resonant and timely. Im so fucking stuck by my own doing and have become that demon you describe ! 🥺
Thank you, your channel is incredibly insightful.
I’m so glad this came at the right time! 🤍
Oh the humanity! You had me chuckling one second and damned near crying the next. Quality work once again. Very accessible. Brave too. Touching on and defusing what some may be 'triggered' by professionally. Definitely have to re visit this video, so bloody densely profound ill need a break to process. 😂
Thankyou again 👏🙏
I have to admit I was a little nervous to put this out! It’s likely too long and involved to get loads of views, so I’m probably safe, but I’ve had shocking comments on other videos that admit to less-than-perfect moments in my life 😬
@Betwixt_App yes the triggered trolls. Chin up as they say. Nothing beats honesty, nothing 👍🙏
@@fatherburning358 Ah, yes. I see. And yup. I’ll never allow myself to feel ashamed of anything real.
Blessings to you, I went through a similar relationships. Though it lasted 15 years. I’m glad you broke out of early. It was a hard lesson. Thank you coach for validating my experience.
I’m so, so sorry to hear you went through 15 years of that kind of relationship. It’s such a shame that “hurt people hurt people”. I have forgiven ex now, but it took a while to get there 🖤
Fascinating and deeply helpful. Thank you! This was exactly what I needed to hear today.
I’m so glad! 🤍
🤯 HOLY SH** this is profound. I feel like I understand my father and his abuse in a profoundly new way.
I love IFS, and parts work kind of feels like this - being blended with a part - but archetypes resonate much more with me, especially the unused creative energy of the shadow artist
Yes, that’s exactly it (blending), but archetypes make it less idiosyncratic and therefore potentially easier to grasp.
The anima/animus thing is contentious in the modern world, though! Jung’s theory was based on old school ideas around sex and gender. I want to look into it more deeply as I’m sure some modern theorists have some interesting things to say.
So poignant and useful, thank you for your work 🙏
Thank you so much! 🤍
THAT WAS LOVELY. THANK YOU!
Thank you! 🤩
Thank you.
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"all too common..."
Sadly true. Took me nearly 3 decades to figure that out... Maybe I was naive or oblivious to the nature of things but I was always happy go lucky until recently. Some characters just turned my world upside down... Sure, I can take maximum responsible but that doesnt replace the fact that I fried alot of my nervous system and health just to thread calm waters again as I struggled to stay afloat... Some would say spiritual psychosis but what do you do when you can't tell the secular from the spiritual? What I craved came to me in a bittersweet solution: just do it for yourself and tell no one about it. The information is here and everywhere, anyways... No need for a spotlight.
I’m so sorry you had this experience 🩶🩶🩶
i love this channel! amazing 🤩
Thanks so much! 🤍
Your videos are deeply moving and enlightening. I'm so grateful for you!!
Thank you so much! I'm really happy you're enjoying the content 🖤
Love this! My favorite video of yours s far. I remember learning of Jungian and how it immediately felt true and opened my mind to a new reality.
Yes, I had a similar reaction! 🤍
This is definitely what I needed to hear today. Going to share with my spouse!
So glad you enjoyed it! 🤍
Ooooh.... Might have to rewatch this one and pause here and there.
Please do! 🤍
excellent video!
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Inspired by this video (thanks for the wisdom), I decided to make something that scared my shadow a lot. Full exposure of its ramblings. I made a video yesterday, where I show my shadow (identity dissociation included) as a way to, somehow ask for help, but also as a way to to collective therapy work. As I say in my video This is My Shadow, the shadow or the archetypical demon wants to be hidden, does not like exposure, or relies on flattery and ego praising. I have the theory that dictators are not born, but made, made by third parties and people who abuse their minds since childhood. I have been through that. Right now I am homeless, stacking some sats to possibly buy a house when I retire at 65, I have supernatural abilities, and I want to just be alone. I have been yelling on the streets non stop for months, even a couple of years. People seem to laugh at it, and at worst, fascist think that I'm going to be their puppet or something. To stop them from vulnerating my mind and to stop my shadow to overtaking my cognition, I decide to show my shadow openly to everyone, since I am tired an exhausted of so much research. Neurodivergent people, specially people on the autistic spectruc, people with personality disorders, people who have different cognitive processes seem to be target for political manipulation and constant behavioral conditioning, and I am sick of that. The only reason I am safe here is because I use technology to record (expose) their behaviours, and because I know I am talented enough to eventually get what I need to have a proserous life (meaning that prosperity for me is eating good, sleeping good and being able to travel or be at home learning and creating). I am doing my own therapy, it takes work, but I hope by me exposing my shadow, and by showing that our shadows are evolutionary traits to protects us from danger, and that the shadow can be tampered with by external actors, then I hope I am doing a service to humanity as a whole, or at least that it helps me keep my balance while I learn about who I am. Thanks for reading. Also, feel free to use the material for research and study if you want. I say that I am a neo shaman, or basically someone who aspires to be a neuro regenerator and life regenerator, someone with therapeutical experience. I think the best thesis I can do on therapeutic wisdom is helping myself as much as I do. Being homeless right now is not "lack of love", is protecting my time from the scams of the exploitative work market and the scam of real state speculation, nonetheless.
Bravo
Thank you! 🤍
I recently made a first attempt at something, just to “prove a concept” with no hope of result. As it turned out, the result - while less than perfect - was quite good. But the person with whom I shared that result, even though that person KNEW this was merely a proof of concept, has not stopped nit-picking the result ever since. It’s a good thing I’m secure within myself, else the relentless negativism might dissuade me from forging ahead.
I won’t call it ‘evil’ though. I understand it completely. It is the ‘tapes’. The conditions in which that person was raised, the constant criticism endured (and continues to endure) at the hands of that person’s family, and it becomes inbuilt. Doesn’t make it OK, but I am fortunately clear of mind so it doesn’t bring me down. It does put a damper on that relationship though.
Yes, I can imagine.
And I wouldn't call it evil, really, either. But I do think the question of what "evil" actually means is interesting. If we assume such a thing exists (which I'm not certain about but let's start from there), then I think "evil" would need to be defines as something like "bad intent" - any action taken with the express (although often unconscious) intention to cause someone or something else harm or pain. If we go wit that definition, then I think we all have the potential for evil with a lover case "e". I sometimes wonder if accepting this evil of this kind in ourselves and other may be the route to happiness.
Ha. Ramble over! Thanks for your comment :-)
Wowee 😢
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I love you
Haha. Thanks! I love you, too!
Loved your thoughts But what if someone steals all your creative work and uses it under their own name and some other parts to suggest nasty gossip about you? so you stop creating so they can no longer misuse your private output/ body of work / lifetime achievement/ legacy? I realise this persons real talent was agent but the only way they can sort themselves out is to give back what was mine. And my true-loves. They even took our letters and poems, photos, mementos of various happy homes… I can’t do it for them, I’m too tired from constant home invasions, hate states from strangers and other weird reactions
I’m so sorry this happened to you! It sounds like a very complicated situation (possibly even illegal?). I can’t know the answer, of course, but I wish you all the best and do hope you find a way to create again 🤍