“Me and the SHADOW”, 22 February – 02 March. THE CARPATHIANS

Who would have thought that the mystery “Me and My Shadow” would turn my brain round by 180 degrees and shake my insides so hard, that I would be putting myself together again out of some spare parts, like a wizard-surgeon from an Eastern fairy tale. And what I have put together, I like as never before: not in childhood, not in youth. This is a truly cool Me!

The Extreme Laboratory – a training quest in THE CARPATHIANS. A mystery of one more life within fate.

In the East they say: “Sow an action, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a fate.”

Over the course of his conscious life a modern person forms a character, that is, he gives value and significance to certain socially conditioned qualities, events, actions. From a set of such conditionings, which secure the position “I’m fine”, “Everything’s great with me”, the personality builds, as from coloured puzzle pieces, an image of itself. Today this self-identification of the personality with a socially approved position is usually called by the word “Ego”. The Ego creates fate. Is it the fate you wanted-expected?

****The Egobegins to take shape already in childhood, and its aim is to satisfy the child’s basic needs for love, parental attention, bodily comfort and safety. The artificial superstructure of the Ego makes the child adjust his behaviour to the formal reactions and social expectations of his parents and other adults, in order to match their ideas of the world and to survive. The Ego is a false personality, mimicking its environment. It is created to ensure survival and the conditions for the development of individuality. And no more than that! In adulthood, when the personality becomes strong and can survive without parents and other adults, there is no need for the false Ego. However, the habit of adjusting to the principles of those around has already become a character!

” …The state I am constantly striving for is the state “on the edge”, on the edge of tears of grief and joy, on the edge I am unable to do anything, and I can do everything. And when nothing is happening, when I do not feel the sharpness, I am dying… I am bored, the time I live is empty. The meanings of my existence slip away. I need sharpness. And what frightens me most is the monotony and the measured pace of life, the thing I hear about all around me and think that I need it too… After all, it is so normal – to want peace and stability!.. These contradictions give me no peace. I think that people who want a life like mine are not as many as those who strive for stability, and I am afraid to show them my craziness. Why? I don’t know, fear… Of losing. What?” The Ego is not individuality. The Ego strives for stability. Individuality lives in the flow and thirsts for evolution. The functions of the Ego:

• to conform, in order to be accepted and to receive love
• to defend – to close up, to justify oneself, to attack, to criticise, to argue.
• to control safety, the actions of others, one’s image

  

The Ego dictates certain strategies of behaviour – always the same! It produces situations – always the same! “Favourite rakes” are unable to talk the Ego round. A set of conditioned reflexes, a matrix of behavioural automatisms, or character – is the Ego’s stable resistance to a change of strategy. “… Who would have thought that the mystery “Me and My Shadow” in the Carpathians would turn my brain round by 180 degrees and shake my insides so hard that I would be putting myself together again out of some spare parts, like a wizard-surgeon from an Eastern fairy tale. And what I have put together, I like as never before: not in childhood, not in youth. This is a truly cool Me!

“ However, the qualities of the personality that are valuable (from the Ego’s point of view) wear out, burn out, and no longer bring the former effect. And the ones that are “not unpacked”, stored in the subconscious, and adequate to the moment – atrophy. In this way a person cuts himself off from his resources, shortens the time and quality of his life and obstructs his own evolution. And instead of living, he fences off the entrance to new realities. In time these repressed realities will make up the Anti-ego, or Shadow. The Anti-ego is the direct opposite of what the person displays. Specialists in people easily read the essence from a vivid, exaggerated self-positioning: for example, the excessively clever person is afraid of seeming stupid (and is so!), the rich one of seeming poor, the brave one of seeming cowardly, the beautiful one of seeming ugly. And so it turns out that the true nature cannot be hidden: the secret becomes manifest one way or another, the false image bursts at the seams and from under the “glammed-up princess” crawls out a “vile demon“.

What is your shadow’s name? What you hide from the “light”? What you are afraid to give your social circle access to? Perhaps it is “Posh Stinker”? Or “Pompous Wretch?” Or “Bitch-Mother?” Or maybe “Sex Bomb”, or “Dim-witted Tyrant”? And what will happen if the shadow is revealed? Surely the same thing that happens with an ordinary shadow – brought into the light, it disappears?

It turns out that the Anti-ego holds an enormous resource – both encapsulated energy, and the forces that are spent on guarding the Shadow, and the brilliant strategies of our success. You only have to allow yourself to unite the Ego with its Shadow – and you are convinced: the might of the whole is incredibly more effective than the struggle of disconnected halves!

“Go to where your light casts a shadow. There you will find…” (Ezra Tngoo)

Everyone who wants to go beyond slavery must meet their shadow. This Mystery is for those who have ripened to the decision to move to meet Life and to allow themselves a victory over the power of the Ego and its Shadow. Here, in Pruschee, in a place specially created for holding fairy-tale mysteries and development laboratories of human enlightenment – alternating the extreme of nights in caves, ascents, and the drive of a jump into the abyss with the cosiness of an adobe house – an adventure and learning await you, a challenge and a delight – You can safely and boldly plunge into the energy-bearing world of your Shadow. To become whole again! ” … There I understood that all my life I had been only a part of myself. And the people in my life were also somehow half-formed and unfinished, and on the whole they did not suit me, just as indeed I did not suit myself. Meeting my shadow – that was not easy at all… Now my world has doubled. And now I no longer need my halves – I am whole! Of course I will go on growing and developing and building relationships – living, only now as a whole – healthy being (without the idea of my own painful inadequacy). I feel that I am ready to meet a whole person!”

• Climbs in the winter mountains – as the foundation of great achievements.
• Exploring the Ego and revealing your Shadow
• The chance to live for a week the self I do not yet know
• Deep relaxation of the personality – the chance to rest from your Ego, and to let the Ego rest from You.
• Meditations: dynamic and static
• Holotropic processes and other breathing practices
• The battle with the shadow and the victory of the conscious “I” over the lying entity of the “Ego”
• Spontaneity, the unexpected and other surprises

The mystery is based on the author’s own technologies and the practices of Eastern monasteries:

• Vipassanas from the world of Gurdjieff
• A retreat of local silence
• Blind days and nights

Bonuses:

• A personal retreat: individual stalking practices inspired by Castaneda’s world
• The space of sound: Tuvan-Altai traditions
• Protection from psychic viruses (such as “I must…”, “They are to blame…”, “I can’t…”)
• The freedom to choose your path and move towards your very self
• The power to be accepted, loved, in demand
• The will to manage life situations

“…For all nine days of the training I was scared. Scarily interested: when would I break down and go back – into the “Matrix”? They didn’t let me, the rascals!:)))

The seminar is led by: Natalia Valitskaya.

I want to share – I carried this seminar for 4 years, and for 5 years now it has been held in places far from the city, and every time with new force. Either People are coming more and more advanced, or the theme is gathering momentum, or the time has come for the integration of the SHADOW. Every time nature and the place give us synchronicities of unseen marvel! In October the 5th annual seminar “Me and the Shadow” took place. On the last day of the mystery, during the jumps into the abyss – this gift on the clouds that you can see on the poster – became a certificate – confirming the quality of the participants’ results. A natural miracle! – what is inside is outside too. The Earth is rejoicing:) and we want to continue this tradition.

Details of participation here: +38095209 76 92 Yulia