Seeing the Shadow between the dark and the light

Like the other rituals, this one depends upon the Meditation of the Flame as its base. I won't re-describe that here.

Inside that, however, is the seeing of the shadow. I use the mirror here because I think it's important to see ourselves when we do this. A mirror-self is much like a shadow-self in how we feel .. it is ourselves, but different. When we see ourselves half-lit in the mirror, it is like seeing a familiar stranger. Ourselves, but not.

There is a line down the face that flickers and moves that is the line between the Bright Flame and Dark. This meditation draws specifically on the idea of moving that line, of bringing things into the light to examine then, but then letting them fade back into the darkness.

This meditation draws upon the illusion that these things can be looked at out of context. That I can look at my anger, and not the things that anger me, or not the reasons why, or what lies beneath that. In the dark, all these things are bound together. In the light, we can see them individually but incompletely.

This balance, dark to light and back, gives us the ability to see deeper into ourselves. And the more we know ourselves, the more we improve the Universe.