My new documentary film, "Melissa Mari: Musical Alchemist of Stage and Psyche is completed. Here's the trailer: youtu.be/_t90C5gooaI And all info is on the website at: melissamarimovie.com You can also watch the full movie ahead of time. Just send me a message.

Destructive ideologies are not the source of social evil, they are the cover stories that humans use to project and displace the Jungian shadow. Once you see this, you'll be looking right at the source. You'll be looking the dragon right in the eye.

How our collective denial of our psychological shadows is creating a civilizational "swamp" of disease and social evil, and how Jungian individuation is the alchemical soul-cure for our time.

This is my latest paper and it's a big one. It's the final one of the three I had been working on over the last several months. I first modeled the shadow of the psyche through Integral Theory's "four quadrant" lens in my last book Transforming Darkness (2024). This paper elaborates on that and provides much greater detail in describing shadow manifestations and shadow work practices across all domains of reality. Integral Shadow PDF is the first link on the list: shadowtechalchemy.com/papers

Cracking the codes of the viral and parasitic side of consciousness using Jungian and Integral theory. This is a recapitulation of the ideas Melissa Mari and I wrote about in Shadow Tech in 2015. I read the paper in the video which is about 35 min long and the PDF white paper is linked in the video description. Youtube audio-video: youtu.be/nB-_rSx6xTw From the forward: "In our current moment, as the postmodern world gives way to ubiquitous corruption and disease of every form, humanity cannot yet see the viral and parasitic dimension of human consciousness that inspires it all. It covertly influences us at every level of organization, from the individual psyche and body, to intimate relationships and families, on up to large-scale social institutions. It acts with apparent agency and pushes continually on every area of weakness to proliferate and grow. This parasitic profile in human consciousness presents itself through autonomous complexes of the psyche that possess us like demons. It riddles our bodies and minds with diseases and syndromes, addictions, pathological personality disorders, ideological possession, and deep state institutional capture among many other expressions. All are evidence of the same underlying parasitic phenomenon. Although this situation falls under the general category of the Jungian shadow, this is not just the result of ego related shadow material being projected onto enemies and scapegoats, but an active viral and parasitic dimension that is taking advantage of our inability to see and mitigate its influence. The human psyche is a living ecosystem in which mutualism is the healthy default. When that mutualism breaks down due to trauma or fails by any cause, orphaned subsystems become autonomous entities (holons), pursuing their own subjective good at the expense of the larger whole - which is the structural definition of parasitism. The active destructive principle that animates this dynamic is archetypal in nature. Melissa Mari and I called it “the Archetype of the Virus”, and it expresses itself through whatever substrate gives way to it, at every scale, from the individual to the civilizational. This paper proposes that bringing this domain into clear awareness is one of the central tasks of our present moment. Carl Jung and Erich Neumann’s proposed remedy was a New Ethic of shadow-aware life and conscious inner development called Individuation, which is itself a robust anti-viral protocol available to us. It is also a path by which the sacred dimension of human existence can be recovered in our fracturing postmodern environment. Humans who consciously individuate, making shadow work and shadow aware life their sacred duty, develop immunity to this destructive parasitic property in human consciousness."

An individual, or a society, possessed by the Warrior archetype is destined for chaos, misery and death. Like fire, the Warrior must be handled very carefully and implemented with wisdom. The same can be said of the Lover, as Eros and Agape, but which expresses its shadow side differently. But the Lover is the water that cools or puts out the fire of the Warrior when it gets out of control. When the Warrior and the Lover can be brought together, in balance you have the best of both worlds and you have a psyche, a relationship, a society that can reach its potential. Some of us come into this world with a genetic and familial propensity that enables the balance of these two inner energies. Most of us dont. We have to work at it. The most important time to do this is in midlife. Men and women who fall to one side or the other in early life are challenged with the task in later life of bringing the opposite energy into themselves and learning to burn a new kind of fuel. We are not taught this. We are in a very immature and self destructive era. Those who will seek out and implement the practices of inner maturation are at the cutting edge of human evolution. Those who dont are just feeding the fire that is burning it all down. 🔥👹

My advice to the "red pilled" asking what they should do.