The Great Shaman said in my dream:
“When you will dance around the fire at night, watch your shadows move in time with your dance, and see how they flicker in the flickering flames. When you come to know your own shadows, you will better understand who you are.” — Metatron
The shadow is vague and distorted, for dance is movement, and thus the shadow is also in motion. Even the light of the fire moves; its intensity shifts, the flame flares up for a moment and then dies down again, until Someone adds a log to the fire; or oxygen would be blown into it by the breath of the Great Spirit, so that the flame flares up for a moment, illuminating the person and highlighting their shadow, making it clearly visible.
The primordial soul is always pure, though its primordial nature and character are arranged differently, and not all are in the noblest and most honorable form; yet at the high level of the primordial soul’s nature, they are always pure. The principle of soul creation is diversity. In order for a person to observe their Shadow, their Spirit must shine upon it with the Light of the Lord of Spirits.
A soul has a Spirit if it has not rejected it through its actions in its lifetimes. A soul without a Spirit has only the Evil Spirit of futility, which manifests in the form of the Artificial Spirit of the Matrix. Not everything is black and white; there are many shades of color, and therefore there are many individual combinations.
When the Light of the Spirit shines on a person, he casts a Shadow; and when that person moves in various ways and acquires knowledge through his actions; and if this knowledge is well received, it strengthens the Spirit and it shines better. If that knowledge is vain, then the energy of Grace is wasted; The Light of the Spirit will weaken and the Darkness of the Evil Spirit of Futility will take its place. The true Self of man is not only his Image, but also his Reflection; and that in this case is his Shadow. There is yet another Reflection, and that is the mirror and what is reflected in it; but that’s another story.
Not only knowledge, but also good and helpful deeds done to the other Truth seekers are added to the good at the level of the Lord of Spirits. On the contrary, vain knowledge, evil deeds and non-conformity with the Principles are added to the Shadow at the causal level of the Matrix; the Shadow grows stronger, the Light of the Spirit weakens, and the Darkness of Futility increases.
Our Self can be likened to a circle, it is like a raisin cake, the size of which increases in proportion to the knowledge that the soul has acquired on the different levels of its existence, in the case of humans, especially on the earthly level. The cake batter represents dark karma and the raisins light merit. Knowing his Shadows, the individual incarnated Inner God will replace the dark cake batter with light raisins; they represent illumined cognition. After all, the cake can be transformed into just raisins and a little bit of dough.
Real knowledge happens when a person fully realizes that it is gaining knowledge for (his individual) Inner God (Spirit) and not just for himself, for his vain Ego. This can be a startling realization for many, because it is the essence of our reason for existence: illumined knowledge and development of Self.
In this case, who is the One for whom a person gains knowledge? That is the individual Inner God, who dances around the fire at night to recognize his Shadows shown in the Light of the Spirit, who is also part of the One and He is also everywhere around.
The Shadow consists of what remains unprocessed from the past deeds; unresolved by compatible cognition according to the Opinions of the God. We cannot see the Shadow well because it is night, it moves with us because we are dancing and the light is also moving. Sometimes our Shadow is like this, sometimes like that; however, as long as we are awake, we have the opportunity to recognize it in various forms. Each, even partial knowledge strengthens the Light of the Spirit, thereby highlighting the contours of the Shadow and then we can then see it better.
Everything is there, revealed to you; and also what you are not aware of, what is hidden and does not directly manifest on the outside. By the dream simile it is like your clothes, which when you wear them, in a sense form your identity. That consists of the clothes you wear during this period, which is how you show yourself on the outside. What you are wearing now is active, the rest of what you have in your wardrobe is inactive. Furthermore, you also have the older things in boxes somewhere that you have already forgotten and that you used to wear long ago; back then it was part of your identity. The clothes you have sorted out and threw away when you were cleaning out your closet symbolically represent resolved karma; that is what you have already come to know well and have taken such an internal attitude towards it that you no longer want to be it.
The unmanifested Self of a person is similar to a program on a television that is completely turned off or is pulled from the mains. It is something like a Parallel Soul and it is also you, it is your Self from some of your past lives. This includes everything that is yours, unconscious, hidden in the Shadow of your present Self. It is unmanifested; it is the unconscious.
They are karmic records hidden in the Shadow, records of everything we have ever done, recorded and accumulated over many lifetimes. We generally do not know about it until the Creator manifests them into the presence of our lives; and then we may be surprised how it is all related.
They are dark memories that the Creator has to our objectionable actions from the past. These can be hidden character traits, unexpressed tendencies towards addictions, succumbing to emotions or to the thought patterns of behavior. Everything we have done in the past is stored; so that it manifests itself in our being and sets the possibility for us to come to awareness.
A soul goes into a series of lives called Cognitive and Developmental Cycle with some intention. The One, who dwells in the soul in the form of the Spirit, has that intention. The Spirit guides the soul and the Creator provides her set of life circumstances, to provide the opportunities to recognize what it considers good and bad, to have a chance to recognize in the realities of many lives its mistakes from its previous actions; adopt attitudes towards them and reach a certain settlement with Creator. He provides us with everything, and if we abused His gifts many times in the past, then it takes a reasonable amount of time before things can be put in order according to the Opinions of the God.