Return to PARADISE, or Apocalypse – 2012

What is the purpose of the prediction of the notorious end of the world, of the second coming, of the apocalypse – what is it about, the collapse of what? The end of what? Some say the MAYAN calendar will end in 2012! And what does that mean? What is the meaning of this message? Maybe the JUNE calendar will begin? 🙂

Some secretly, and some openly, without embarrassment, hope for THE END OF THE WORLD and therefore count on THE BEGINNING OF DARKNESS! Perhaps it could amuse them, as the Hollywood industry does. Some designers of the human being (social psychologists, for instance) suppose that it will simply be the last human being, out of date in his configuration, who dies in this 2012, and that’s all. Evolution will then begin to pick up speed and move towards mass enlightenment. Because he is out of date – imperfect, like a black sheep who spoils the whole flock and doesn’t let it develop – a sort of Koschei.

So what, in fact, were people waiting for in 2012?
What kind of APOCALYPSE had been ordered from the historical menu of humanity? Where are we heading, comrades, and by which road!?

There is a great deal of personal power in the theme of the Shadow – one, if not the only, abundantly resourceful path in the self-development of the personality and the emotions, of the human spirit. It is not for nothing that those in power have, by various historical laws, held back this dormant resource of the Shadow. The shadow sides of the personality, the polarity to the façade, the polarity to the Ego – its SHADOW, the Anti-ego. I like playing with polarities and extremes – I choose to take apart this version:

THE END OF THE WORLD – as THE BEGINNING OF DARKNESS!

The time has ripened, and the mass media themselves now obviously sing the drama of the negative heroes. And the “negative” ones in our 21st century are no longer negative at all, but just charmers, sad ones, wounded inside. And such sympathy for them, and understanding for the executioners. And the sweeties and the little victims fall from their pedestals – well-brought-up darlings, polite, smiling, and yet the autopsy here shows – on inspection, toadies and hypocrites, cowards and the greedy – such is the shadow inside.

The inside of a human being is polar, which means that the point of push-off will always be polar to the vector of movement – how could it be otherwise. Push off and jump, and look – while you stand and think, it’s unclear. You don’t even need to be a physicist here, just attentive. The law that Newton discovered with an apple on the head, and Archimedes with his bath: he climbed in to bathe and displaced the water – so housewives, it means, have known about this law since the beginning of time. And here again is the polarity of intellect and wisdom. The cleverest pushes off from ignorance, and the fool-jester from the hackneyed learning that sets the teeth on edge.

The vector of movement is always opposite to the support, and with development the break from the support will be so great (you need to jump high here) that the support will cease to be one. And the person will become their own opposite, and then push off from that too. So there is no going back to how it was, luckily we don’t live on a plane, but, happily, in a three-dimensional world (though not all of us, of course, I’m “flattering” the public in advance). This is even, if you like, a criterion of development – if there is no change of qualities and views to the polar ones, then there is no development, and don’t flatter yourselves, you people of principle!

So into the SHADOW we go, folks, into the shadow, the whole crowd of self-developing individuals in the trendy year of 2012.

An autopsy – an autopsy of souls turned inside out, a striptease is the metaphor of our time. And if anyone here feels ashamed – to therapy, folks – it’s like going into a clinic: enemas and slimming, the release of toxins – and then you won’t feel ashamed, but it will be very beautiful and interesting, both to yourself and to the other lucky ones.

And here come the polarities: for indecencies are about the intimate details of the body: what is “ugh” and filth from one angle is called “charms” from another. And it is sweet, and a delight, and a pleasure. Here there is holiness, and courage, and self-denial. By the way, these details don’t age with the years, and here again is polarity – the body ages, but they don’t. Wow, how mirror-reversed everything is in this world! In that lie its wholeness and its volume. So what should the psyche strive for in its development? For wholeness, so that if there is still something inside about “ugh” (in psychologists’ circles they like to call it cockroaches, and poo as well), it is worth working on transforming it – this “ugh”, repressed and denied – into “wow”, into butterflies and treasures.

Science and Religion used not to like each other, and now they have made friends. Ancient traditions and advanced psychology are merging irrepressibly into a single wisdom of life. Previously conflicting views and directions are now uniting and becoming facets of one – the single knowledge about the human being. And this worldwide tendency is a wonderful healing wave for finding inner peace.

It is good to live in a synchronous flow with the world’s and nature’s cycles. Now our inner repressed shadow sides can find their due place and respect in the structure of our personality, and we shall become whole! As the WORLD is whole and contains within itself Life and its shadow – Death. It is good to allow ourselves to die and to be born as many times as necessary in order to brightly and fully take part in the manifestation of life on earth! And there is no place for fear here. And if the unwanted vanishes, where would fear come from?

The expulsion from Paradise was the division into good and evil, and from it was born the need to strive for one pole and avoid the other. And fear, the fear that the other pole will catch up with you and swallow you, if you so much as gape, no time to relax, and control, so as to remember all the time what to run from, and memory as unfreedom, of dangers and undesirables, and the heaviness in this, the heaviness…

Now it can be different. Just imagine, there is no one to run from, imagine, and nothing to be afraid of! Everything that happens is useful. Is there still something you don’t like? “You don’t like cats? You simply don’t know how to cook them” 🙂 Death is the most terrible thing that can happen to you, and it, Death, is beautiful. Whoever has explored it closely knows, but that is the subject of a separate article. And now about the territory of Life.

The end of the world in 2012 is the end of inner conflicts! It is about developing in yourself the complementary qualities of the polarities. The shadow ones, of course, it is “the beginning of darkness” after all. For example: lazybones – hard worker, polite – boor, controlling – spontaneous, responsible – free, sensitive – don’t-give-a-damn, smart aleck – fool and so on, exploring yourself individually and, instead of fighting with what you have in excess and what has already fed you up, to give up the fight and develop the opposite skill.

The Apocalypse of 2012 is the time to return from the “war”. To return to Paradise, prodigal sons and daughters. To return in order to celebrate. To celebrate yourself in life and life in yourself. What else is there to do, anyway?

“THE TIME OF TRANSITION” is a mystery of transformation – the theme of the summer transition – finding your own POWER. Success in life as its, power’s, side effect!

Shall we explore this theme together?
Tell us what you think about your Shadow – what is yours like?

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