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What the Catholic Church Got Wrong
The path to enlightenment is challenging. It’s not embodying the light that’s hard — it’s getting to know all the shadow parts of ourselves that’s challenging.
“Enlightenment doesn’t come from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.” ~Carl Jung
If you’re anything like me — you’re on the spiritual and ascension path. You’re working to raise your vibration, heal your traumas and undo ancestral patterns. Yet as you try to raise your vibration you find yourself faced with lower vibration emotions, like fear, jealousy, anger, guilt, grief and shame. Feelings that society tells us make us “bad” people and make many people uncomfortable.
One of the biggest hurdles I’ve had to overcome on my healing journey was learning to not only face these these darker emotions but also understand and love them.
When I was growing up, I was rewarded when I was a “good girl” and didn’t cry or get angry so it was tempting for me to spiritually bypass facing those feelings as part of my healing.
Map of Consciousness
Emotions run through a large spectrum of vibrations. In The Map of Consciousness, developed by author David R. Hawkins, you can see how the vibrations of each feeling…
