Forbidden Pattern

The Shadow and The Rising Sun

by Robert Anue
One of the forbidden patterns.. Theme builds on the darker side of a person
and a sneaky "swish" to get you in there(shadow !ssentially it seems this
pattern is best suited to en"ouraging one to get in tou"h with their hidden
desires (thus "onne"ting emotionally with them and then eli"iting their
appearan"e in an e#tro$erted way.
The Shadow and the Rising Sun
You know, I was thinking about something the other day...about
polarities... about the whole concept of the Yin and Yang...about hot and
cold...black and white...light and darkness. And how opposites are really the same
thing...just arying degrees on the same spectrum...of possibilities...and how one is
defined in relation to the other...and how there are no
absolutes.
And then I remembered something that a !sychologist friend of mine said
once...She said, "I hae to go feed my shadow"...and I wasn#t $uite
sure what she meant at the time until I read something by %ung.
&e are born completely whole and it isn#t until we learn what our
current culture tells us what is good and what is bad that we start to both
repress and e'press these parts of ourseles.
(e said that eeryone has a Shadow...a hidden side...a place of
forbidden desire. This is that part of you that you hide from the rest of the
world... maybe een from yourself... where you can e'perience and imagine these
thoughts... these thoughts that you don#t tell anyone about ...where
you really want to e'perience all the e'citement of this moment... to let
go of all the things that had been holding you back before... to just let
go...e'perience all that life offers you now. The Shadow is a good
thing he belieed, because it brings a sense of balance.
)ow, this sense of balance is ery important because the concept that
whateer you repress grows and begins to spill oer into other parts of
your life. If your shadow is repressed it grows and grows...until it just
takes you oer completely. %ung said it was like the Rising Sun... because in
the morning, as the Sun rises in the sky...... it gets higher and higher...
closer and closer to the highest point in its path *midlife+ ...until
at mid,day it changes polarity completely... and eerything that was once
true has now changed...and now the opposite is true... and the sun goes
down.
This was the concept behind mid,life crisis.
So balance then is a good thing, and %ung belieed that the first part
of our lies is about separation from the shadow, while the latter part of
our lies is about integration with the shadow and about being whole.
)ow what if you were to see your shadow right in front of you, and talk
to it, what would it say-
)ow what if you were to step into your shadow right now, and see the
world through the eyes of your shadow.. &hat would that say about the person
that you were before and what does this say about who you are now-