Some musings on the political right’s reaction to recent American political events and what it really means to be right wing

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When you polarise like this, you end up overdoing the “good” quality to the point that it becomes a hindrance while also being unable to draw anything useful from its opposite. (This can be the result of shame around certain qualities.)

One way to deal with this is to flip the script or try a reframe.

Suppose you think being aggressive is “bad” and as a result end up being so passive that everyone takes advantage of you and you let people violate your boundaries because you’re so invested in being chill.

But even though you’re not expressing aggression outright, you would probably still have anger swirling around inside you where you can’t see it as a result of allowing to be mistreated. You just can’t access the tools that would allow you to stand up for yourself because you’ve decided that is “not me”.

But what if instead of thinking of standing up for yourself as “aggressive” and therefore “bad”, what if you thought of it as assertiveness and came to a more balanced position? Ask yourself, what good things could this quality bring?

Being polarised is never a healthy position to be in, so if you want to know what might be in your shadow, ask someone close to you to describe your worst qualities. The ones that elicit a defensive reaction from you would be good places to start. If someone you trust says, “sometimes you’re X”, and your immediate reaction is “No, I’m not!”, you may have just found something in your shadow.

One of the biggest barriers to shadow integration is the over-identification with an idealised image of ourselves.

The shadow is a Jungian concept and this is a place in our unconscious mind where we tuck away all the parts of ourselves that we reject. We impose a “blind spot” on parts of ourselves so that we can label certain qualities as “not me.”

As a result, we are then no longer aware of those qualities within ourselves, but they are still there stuffed away in the shadow. Without any conscious awareness of that part of ourselves, they become autonomous from our conscious personality and control or manipulate us invisibly. (Invisibly to us, anyway— other people around us can often spot their presence easily!)

Shadow work is about making these parts of ourselves conscious again and reintegrating them back into the whole.

But the barrier is the idealised image we have of ourselves, the egoic clinging to the parts of ourselves we’ve labelled as “good”, while pushing away the parts of ourselves we’ve labelled “bad”, and worse, denying they are a part of us.

Of course we all want to be the more idealised version of ourselves, but there are no inherently good or bad parts of ourselves. They are fundamentally neutral and can be expressed in positive or negative ways. However, when pushed into the shadow, they are more likely to express negatively and cause us to behave in unhealthy ways.

Two things happen when we push parts of ourselves into the shadow:
1) it creates a split within us that produces shame around that part of ourselves
2) it disconnects us from anything positive that trait could have offered us

This is why over-identifying with the “good parts” becomes a barrier to integration.

It’s important to hold space for all aspects of ourselves honestly. When we push those parts away, we just become blind to how they are showing up in our lives. We haven’t actually achieved a state of goodness, but just built a facade for our ego.

Splitting yourself into good and bad parts takes us you of alignment with wholeness.

You’re only taking what your human mind considers to be the good and the human mind has a very limited understanding of what is good or perfect. What is already ideal and perfect is exactly how God made you, warts and all.

When you over-identify with goodness, you trade in the perfect wholeness of yourself for a very shallow and flawed understanding of what is perfect or good or ideal. Our idea of what’s ideal is usually just what serves us the best, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into wholeness.

The idea that you should be something other than what you are is where you run into problems.

Shadow integration isn’t about “fixing” those things, but just becoming more whole, more consciously aware of the objective reality of yourself. It’s like a form of radical self-acceptance, of just meeting yourself where you are at, not where you wish you were.

That doesn’t mean we need to express our shadow qualities in detrimental ways, it’s not permission to act like a jerk. But it is a taking stock of where you’re at and then dealing with it honestly.

To give some examples, let’s say you find selfishness in your shadow. Look at where that comes from, without labelling it as good or bad. Maybe it comes from feeling like no one else will look out for your needs so you go to an extreme in trying to look out for yourself and end up trampling on others. Now that you’re aware that, you can find more constructive ways of managing it.

Often there will be some kind of splitting of opposites where we label one quality as good and its opposite as bad. Maybe we decide that masculinity is good and project an idealisation onto it, while labelling femininity as bad and demonising it. But someone could just as equally hold the opposite view, idealising the feminine and demonising the masculine. These splits are always very subjective, since you could project goodness or badness onto any quality.

Later today I’ll make my appearance on Lambda’s game show, where he challenges guests to discuss a hodgepodge of impromptu topics.

We don’t know what the topics will be before going on and just have to riff on the spot about whichever wild card topic we get and then get points for how well we did.

So hit the notification bell on his channel, it premieres at pm Eastern.

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NEW ARTICLE on matriarchies and "longhouses", the phallic man vs the heroic man, and the necessary conditions for patriarchy

https://philosophicat.substack.com/p/the-lure-of-the-longhouseand-the

By now you will have heard that my husband Sam Melia was sentenced today to two years in prison for his intentions behind publishing stickers that the prosecution said were both lawful and truthful.

The sentencing guidelines gave the judge the option of choosing anywhere between 2 years and 6 years, and the minimum was given due to the lack of seriousness regarding the offence. The judge could’ve suspended the sentence (and sent Sam home) at two years, however he chose not to and said the reason why was because he wanted the sentencing to act as a deterrent to other people with the same beliefs.

Before today, Sam met with his Probation Officer who said that Sam was no risk to the public and there was no chance of reoffending, and recommended a community order. The judge chose to ignore this.

The worst case scenario is that Sam will serve 12 months in prison. Potentially, he could serve 6 - 8 months. He is considered low risk and could therefore be on day release from as early as in a few months.

If you take anything from this, let it remind you why we do what we do. We live in a country where our people are attacked by the anti-White state for advocating for their own safety and interests.

I don’t want cuddles and condolences. I don’t want thoughts and prayers. I want you to join me in filling the void that Sam leaves for the next few months. There are no excuses. Not everybody has to be on the front line. There is plenty you can do behind the scenes.

Sam should hold his head up high knowing that he put his head above the parapet when many others dare not. He didn’t back down at any point over the last three years, nor did he take any offer they offered him. He remained defiant for us, and now it’s our turn to repay his sacrifice by carrying his flame until he is back.

Knightly Virtues for the Modern Man - new Substack article

Branching off from one of the topics we’ll be looking at in the next Revolt episode, here we consider what the knightly virtues of prowess, loyalty, and honour have to offer us as an antidote to the poison of modernity

https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophicat/p/knightly-virtues-for-the-modern-man?r=1bepqq&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post