Facing The Deep State And Psy-Op Within Yourself – The Essence Of Shadow Work
(with resources on how to do shadow work)
By Bernhard Guenther, July 19, 2024
Donald Trump is an excellent archetypal shadow projection case study for our times. He carries an immense weight of psychic pressure from people’s positive and negative projections, which speaks for the strength of his whole being.
This statement does not imply that I see him as a “good” or “bad” person (or any other label). It’s not a judgment of his character. I’m speaking about unseen psychic energies and cosmic forces in the context of thought projections and the psyche.
Most people would have already crumbled, died of a disease, become drug addicts, or committed suicide under the load of these intense psychic projections.
As I’ve written in a previous article, he’s the target of the projections from the left, conservatives, and the truther community alike – billions of people on a global level.
One side sees him as Hitler and dictator, or controlled op, shill, Lucefarian, or false savior. The other side sees him as the savior/messiah who can’t do wrong.
Most people are caught in these oversimplified good/bad either/or projections.
If you know how to do shadow work, hold the tension of opposites within [key concept!], and withdraw your projections, you will start to see him as he IS [the arising “third force” beyond the black-and-white duality], not as you think he is or want him to be beyond any label.
“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”
– Marie-Louise von Franz
This is an extremely difficult internal process. It’s not an intellectual exercise of “neutrality” or “balance.” It’s not a moral question and cannot be reached via logic and the mind. It’s not a thought process.
I’m certainly not free from all projections, let alone having an integrated shadow. I have my triggers. They serve me to do the internal work [if I catch them]. It’s a continuing “trial and error” process that becomes more nuanced over time.
Anyone who claims they don’t project, don’t get triggered, don’t have a shadow, or are “done with shadow work” [huge red flag!] doesn’t grasp what shadow work is and is lying to themselves. It would literally imply that you are “enlightened” without any unconsciousness.
Most people, normies, and self-proclaimed “awake” truthers alike indulge in their projections (sometimes truthers even more than normies, ironically).
The mind and reality (by extension through the process of projective identification) will always give them a “reason” and “justification” to indulge in their projections—augmented with thought injections by occult forces that trigger their unconscious shadow to feed off the emotionally charged projections of the suppressed shadow.
As Paul Levy explained in his work, this is also the modus operandi of wetiko tagging into the shadow – it feeds you what you want to see to feed off you even more.
That’s why trying to expose all the lies, psy-ops, and conspiracies “out there” in the world is an endless feedback loop because “you” and the collective psyche will “dream up” more of the same, living under the illusion that the outside world is separate from “you.”
Until you stop externalizing, withdraw your projections, focus the vision within, and start living from within—grounded and embodied in Self.
I can see it in my mind, too, and it requires internal willpower not to give in to the “justified” projections but to use them to ignite the alchemical fire within as fuel for the Great Work to bring forth Essence/Self.
Hence, the real battle and psy-op is within and working THROUGH you.
The less aware you are of your shadow, projections, and triggers, the easier it is to be controlled by unseen [occult] forces tagging into your psyche.
The more you are a slave to occult forces outside your awareness, regardless of whether you call yourself a “truther” who thinks he is awake and has figured it all out or the average person who may not be aware of any conspiracies.
Starting the process of withdrawing your projections (by becoming aware of them) is the most critical part and foundation of inner work before deeper spiritual/esoteric self-work can begin (or you’ll fall into the trap of spiritual bypassing).
It is about entering the “House of Gathering” as Carl Jung described:
“We are still certain we know what other people think or what their true character is. We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts.
He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against. He lives in the “House of the Gathering.”
Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
The conditioned ego-personality stuck in pride and victim/blame consciousness will deny and resist this process.
It will vehemently protest the idea that “whatever is wrong in the world is in himself” with various reasons and justifications to mentally shield itself from disillusionment – a crucial threshold to break through in the Great Work.
Withdrawing your projections not only helps you see clearly beyond your mechanical, programmed, and reactive likes and dislikes, attractions, and repulsions, but you do more for the betterment of humanity than trying to figure out any conspiracy or psy-op intellectually.
Integrating your shadow will also give you more access to Self-energy, your essence as a vessel for the Divine, and, by extension, more access to creativity, life force, and true FREE WILL with CONSCIOUS action and not mechanical re-action.
Your whole being becomes lighter and a more efficient transducer for Divine Will, which will express itself uniquely through you. It will connect you more to your soul purpose and creative spirit.
In other words, you raise your frequency and vibration to higher levels of Being; hence, as Jung said, “One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”
He’s referring to your internal darkness, your shadow, what you are not aware of yourself within but project externally on others.
But it’s not easy because once you engage in embodied shadow work (and don’t just intellectualize it), you will encounter all kinds of complexes, traumas, beliefs, urges, desires, mother/father wounds, and feelings you didn’t know you had [many of them are not “yours”].
Yet, the only way out is in and through. All need to be revealed from darkness to Light. There is also only so much shadow work you can do by yourself. Find others with whom you can engage in the same inner work. We need each other.
I’m not implying that we shouldn’t look at the world, speak out, and expose the lies. It is not about inaction or being passive.
But if you are more focused externally without embodied psychological self-awareness [and a higher spiritual vision beyond the 3D manifestations in the context of the evolutions of consciousness], you can easily get lost in the conspiracy wormhole and see conspiracies, psy-ops, and controlled ops where there are none.
You won’t be able to accurately separate truth from lies in the world because you haven’t faced the lies within yourself.
“To speak the truth, one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all, in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”
– Gurdjieff
The wetiko-infused psyche and suppressed shadow will also pull more of the same out of the “magician’s hat” for you to justify your projections, and you become like Don Quixote, fighting illusory windmills or shadows in Plato’s allegory of the cave.
In other words, you will see precisely what you want to see. It’s an endless loop.
Living in that externalized state – especially constantly glued to the internet in a disembodied state – you are actually more vulnerable to manipulation and control while you believe [lie to yourself] that you are “awake”, “free”, and “sovereign.”
As within so without. What we see playing out in the external world disguised as conspiracies, psy-ops, or the deep state is also related to our personal and collective shadow.
That which we don’t face within ourselves is also manifested in the outside world as “fate” on a personal and collective level, hence all there is are lessons.
It’s a constant revelation and unveiling (apocalypse), and it is accelerating.
It’s an amazing opportunity to utilize all the manifestations of the psychic material for the Great Work, bringing about a true shift and transformation in consciousness.
In fact, it is necessary so we don’t plunge again into another dark night of civilization [Atalntis 2.0] and the Divine “pressing the reset button.”
“People often ask Dr. Jung, “Will we make it?” This refers to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their inner work.” This soul work is the one thing that will pull us through any emergency.”
– Robert A. Johnson
In other words, instead of only trying to expose the controlled ops, psy-ops, NWO, and Deep State out there, also face the controlled ops and deep state within in your own mind, psyche, and being – where you lie to yourself, deceive yourself, betray yourself, sell your soul, put on a mask, suppress all kinds of unconscious drives only to project them externally.
In short, it’s both inner and outer work, but if the inner work is small or non-existent, the outer work is even smaller and less effective and potent, for you mostly fight shadows while creating more psychic pollution and “chaos” in the world out of your own unrecognized shadow.
“The outer work can never be small if the inner work is great. And the outer work can never be great if the inner work is small.
The outer work can never be minor, when the inner work is a major one, and the outer work can never be major or good when the inner work is a minor one and without value.
The inner work always determines in itself all the dimensions of the outer work, its whole breadth and extent. The inner work receives and draws the whole of its being from nowhere but the heart and in the heart of God.
If your works are to be living works, then God must spur you to action from within, from your innermost part, if they are really to be alive. For that is where your own life is, and that is the sole place where you are truly alive.”
– Meister Eckhart
Resources for Shadow Work:
Podcasts:
- How Can We Heal This Polarized World? (Holding the Tension of Opposites)
- Shadow Work, Triggers, And Projections
- Facing The Collective Shadow With An Open Heart
- Learn How To Do Shadow Work On Social Media
- Becoming Who You Are Meant To Be
Masterclass:
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