Shadow Light: Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness - Softcover

Witt, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495187721 ISBN 13: 9781495187728

Publisher: Integral Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Shadow is everything in us we can't see--everything we are not conscious of. Our Shadow self monitors hundreds of thousands of inputs from the world and our body/mind systems, processes the information, and constantly sends constructive and destructive messages into our conscious awareness in the forms of sensations, feelings, impulses, stories, and thoughts. This Shadow material is generated in less than a tenth of a second, and our conscious selves become more or less aware of it after one or two seconds, leaving our conscious awareness always one step behind the non-conscious flood of Shadow material. Personal development is largely growth of our Shadow selves--our adaptive unconscious in which resides our deepest senses of self, morality, intimacy, vulnerability, and spirituality. Shadow Light offers a wealth of research, ideas, and practices to help us grow our Shadow selves and accelerate personal evolution.

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Review:

Much has been written on the topic of shadow and the unconscious, but no one has yet taken an Integral view of it. Here Keith Witt offers this comprehensive perspective and does so with his usual blend of joy, practicality, and wide-ranging experience as a psychotherapist. Read this book with care, and it will serve to propel your conscious self-awareness in all areas of your life. - Mark Forman, PhD, author-A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy "Shadow Light, Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness: An Integral Journey into Shadow is a marvelous book, thoroughly covering this fascinating topic of the human Shadow, and, unlike many approaches to our unconscious potential, pointing out-and explaining-both its constructive capacities as well as its destructive ones. And further, it offers straightforward exercises and practices for converting those destructive aspects into constructive talents-and does so across a broad range of human activities, from work to relationships to parenting. Highly recommended for professional and lay persons alike-absolutely superb offering!" Ken Wilber, author-Integral Meditation

About this edition

• Publisher: Integral Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1495187721
• ISBN 13: 9781495187728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448