Becoming a high value man,

through shadow integration.

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If you often find yourself acting out in a way that makes you regret it later,

it means you have a limited understanding of what the driving forces are behind your behaviour.

To stop acting out in weak, uncharacteristic manner, you must integrate your shadow.

Conceptualise yourself as having multiple personalities. Because if there's a side to you that regrets your own actions,

its possible that you're not entirely in control of who you are.

Its possible that those other personalities are desires that work against you.

In your conceptualisation, you want to give these personalities an identity so you can hone in on their character.

To do this, select the cardinal vices of humans, taught in christianity, to label your other 'selves' -

pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony & sloth.

Your regrets, or actions that are uncharacteristic of you, are largely driven by these vices.

The magnitude of each vice acting out is different in every person. And a persons ability to suppress each one from acting out also varies greatly.

Your aim is to exercise suppression.

The part of you that finds these random acts of behaviour uncharacteristic is the conscious you,

the central core of your personality - the 8th identity.

Like a nation, the 8th is the governing body that legislates everything for the nations growth to prevent anarchy.

The stronger the 8th, the weaker the 7 personalities, the more integrated & grounded you are,

like a proper functioning nation.

The weaker the 8th, the more powerful the 7 personalities.

Your shadow, is effectively these repressed 7 personalities.

Most people repress their shadow - forcefully denying their existence from awareness.

This only makes the 7 personalities come back with a vengeance to undermine the central self.

Shadow integration is the act of consciously SUPPRESSING the desires AT WILL.

Repressing means to deny its existence.

Supressing means to embrace its existence only if it plays by your rules.

Given that the human condition stretches down to hell as well as it reaches up to heaven,

we are left with no choice but to emrace our shadow.

You have the opportunity to integrate your shadow, every time it manifests itself.

If you felt greedy, and unjustly took something from someone, & regretted it later,

that was your shadow manifesting.

Next time you suppress it, you learn to integrate it.

The more you learn to suppress the uncharacteristic parts of you, the closer you get in integrating your shadow.

This is essentially what integrity MEANS - the latin meaning to 'complete' -

the ability to do, but choosing not to - the stable paradox - a man of character.

Only upon shadow integration, where you have fully self-legislated your 7 personalities with the central you (the 8th),

can you then yield your dark desires towards benevolent ends.

The manifestation of your shadow will no longer be random, but controlled.

ONLY then, can you harness wrath to destroy evil,

envy to become a worthy contestant,

greed for growth to provide.

You will select AT WILL, to manifest parts of your shadow when you deem rightfully necessary,

& keep the other parts dormant that yield to no noble end.

A stable paradox is the man that can do both good & evil to deliver good FROM evil.

A man cannot do this, unless he has the ability to suppress his dark personalities at will.

Suppression leads to shadow integration - A stable paradox.

Alternatively, an unstable paradox is a man enslaved by his 7 personalities.

He is in constant regret of his actions, constantly promising himself he will 'change',

but he continuously succumbs to his 7 desires.

Weak, lacks integrity & central self.

Unworthy.

Then you have religious conventions teaching us to become morally obedient,

stripping away our capacity to occupy the paradox.

It has taught us to repress our shadow, so when it manifests, it undermines us.

It has taught us to cowardly seek the divine through subordination.

If we want to win the spiritual war, we need to fight off the spirits within us.

We cannot do this by adhering to religious, traditional means.

We cannot integrate our shadow through moral obedience.

And if we cannot integrate our shadow, we cannot win the spiritual war.

Identify your personalities (shadow). Watch like a hawk when they act out.

Embrace them into consciousness by suppressing them next time they emerge.

Then yield them to noble ends.

Become a force to contend with.

Self-legislate the 8th or dance with the 7 devils.