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RG’s rant around false shadow work and what not, is reasonable.. and I share the rants.. but the rigidity around it, I’m sensing and feeling out as part of his shadow. Pitching to people that shadow work is supposed to be uncomfortable, it’s horrible, and it sucks.. Did he really consciously think out this selling point? Or is it some sort of personal injunction of trying to force himself to endure more pain??
I think I’ve got a bit more of a theory on this.. but don’t want to put it in the public grannon tracker…
I sense it’s really around this summoning the self course, and also the new twists with the 30 day challenge.. he really wants it to work for people… but the stumbling block, which he’s openly shared but hasn’t linked it… is that he’s very good at prescriptive and descriptive teaching…
But… I’d argue that he’s now diving into territory of initiation… and that’s more a process beyond the ego’s control or prescriptive injunctions or directive maps.. It’s also more a process of ego death or falling apart… so it’s really hard to almost impossible to give directives to ego and intellect, and NOT have the it get in the way of the process while it thinks it’s helping the process…
Non-dual spiritual awakening teachers like Adyashanti and tons of others now… also are hacking this exact same territory.. but more with spiritual meditative states and self-inquiry koans that interrupt & confuse the ego.. to sorta offer people a glimpse of non-dual state or pure-awareness, void, etc..
Back to initiation… if trauma is a pre-mature initiation… then that door is already opened for many C-PTSD survivors… the next steps is encounter with your inner dragons/demons out in the wild (emotional flashbacks)… then a community to witness and welcome you back as a new person.. as an adult in society… the old immature self.. needs to die.. and then new part gets resurrected…
The Jesus crucifixion story is parallels the initiation journey… maybe almost to a T.. though that’s more of a intuitive guess, I haven’t done hard comparison for a super strong stance there…
Anyway…. I still need to review the summoning the self course.. and also the new part 2.. and maybe there’s a part 3 coming?? My skeptical radar is already on.. but I’m happy to entertain it’s potential success. And if it does seem to work for people.. I’m happy to integrate it or promote it… cuz the initiation path is fucking hard …
But I suspect.. he’s not gonna be able to re-invent the wheel… there’s no new ideas out there… we’re just recycling old stuff over and over again… genuine creativity that’s never been done… that’s super human super rare…
