Shadow and Disowned Self (Feb 25 2007) part 1

3:30 - what is the difference between transcend-and-include and dissociate-and-repress?

4:33 - agency can go pathological in two ways

4:55 - there is pathological transcendence or pathological negation; repression, driven by Phobos

6:09 - there is pathological preservation; fixation, driven by Thanatos

6:46 - agency and communion are the horizontal drives; Eros (transcendence) and agape (embrace) are the vertical drives

7:06 - pathological Eros is Phobos; pathological agape is Thanatos

7:17 - pathological transcendence is repressing a lower level

7:25 - many transpersonal critics have confused transcendence with repression

8:15 - some aspect of view is what gets repressed

9:01 - muladhara chakra / fulcrum one - physical, gross, material plane

9:25 - in essentially every classical conception of the great chain, matter has always been ranked as the bottom rung; that's not going to work

9:40 - matter more correctly belongs as the exterior correlate of the interior

10:20 - this has been one of the stickiest points in spiritual studies: it's why transcendence has always struck scientific, materialist rationalists as metaphysical wispiness

11:41 - successful vertical development includes all the aspects of all levels

12:01 - healthy transcendence is no exclusive identification with any level

12:20 - what's transcended or negated is the limited view of each level

13:44 - the "I" is a small subset of the phenomena of any given level

13:57 - the view from a level is where our identity is centered

14:19 - you can dissociate or repress that view or you can remain attached or addicted to it

14:37 - the part of your consciousness that gets dissociated or attached will be split off into a sub-personality

16:19 - meditation is not a good tool for shadow work; it lets you see what's arising, but it won't tell you if what's arising is distorted

18:16 - pathological agency is alienation; pathological communion is fusion

57:53 - is 3 - 2 - 1 too cognitive for shadow work?

58:36 - 3 - 2 - 1 is introductory only