The Importance of Descent in Our Ascension Journey

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Our culture has a problem with going into the depths, with shadow work, with going to the pit of misery, of hell. When was the last time you let yourself go to the depth of your own pain, to the depth of your own grief? We're on this journey of wanting to heal, of wanting to ascend, of wanting to feel better, better, better, bigger, happier. And there isn't anything wrong with that inherently, but what's troublesome is this desire to bypass the journey to the other side.

We can't get to the attainment without having lost, without having going to the depth. There is no ascension without the descent, and it's only through the descent that we learn and begin to trust ourselves to come back up. The descent is one of the most crucial parts of ascension, of spiritual work. And we live in a society that is illiterate to the aspect of grief, of death, of the shadow, of the going inward. We see it as something to hide, something to avoid.

And by doing that, what we ultimately do is try, and the key word is try, to bypass that emotion. And you have lived long enough to know that anything you try to avoid, it just will keep coming up bigger and stronger and longer. So by you, by us, trying to avoid feeling the depths of the descent, we just delay the process of integration. ^rwhi888024085