Influence

I disagree. But these notions sell lots of books and keep people needing more info.


We live not as individuals but as a collective all influencing each other. It is an integration. We don;t live in a vacuum. Those with more awareness are influenced less and influence more. Our cells even have consciousness but each cell is also influenced by the rest of the body. See how long the other cells last if the liver malfunctions. ;-)

Even Carolyn Myss, who was one of several who had propagated the idea of the Youniverse has backed away from her previous notion. In fact, she has said she was very wrong and admitted that her work never healed anyone but sold lots of books. She now is taking a more connected and holistic view and getting results with that paradigm.

I heard a great interview by O Donnel (sp)who has spent years doing inner work and he says most people are influenced and basically automatons leveraged to live out scripts handed to them and have no real power over their own lives. The rest are details bantied about to justify this lack of power. The new age community is brimming with these justifications.

I recall Gandhi didn't look at the injustices and see them as shadows. He stood up to them. Your immune system doesn't sit down to a love and light pow wow with malaria. It deals with it. Influence for balance. Filters see that as judgment.

Accepting things in your reality is about changing them. Taking action. Influencing change. Speaking out about something or working to change something isn't about a shadow weakness. it is a symptom that needs healing/balancing through action. The new age version is more of a way to ensure non change through scripted inactivity.

If your children were threatened would you see that as a shadow element to you self and enter a bliss state while they were being harmed and say to yourself that it must be something wrong with you which is why this is occurring?

Collective...influence...balance.


I find it interesting that some of the people who are jumping on this as an issue are seen all over the site condemning other things. I think the animal slaughter for meat has stimulated a hot button and all kinds of justifications are coming to the surface.

Change out the idea of meat instead for your children in the role of meat. Imagine now if some other predator was systematically killing children to eat and yours were in line for that "shadow." Tweet