Glossary of Terms for Shadow Stalkers

Archetype

The word Archetype coined by C.G. Jung, is a compound word from the Greek - Archein (ancient, old), + Typos (pattern, model, type), and together we can think of the meaning as “old pattern”.

Best Enemy

A tormentor who is in your life in some way, a boss, co-worker, neighbor, or public figure, and through the torment helps you grow spiritually. Also known as a Petty Tyrant.

Blessing

A spell that empowers the receiver.

Consciousness

The state of being aware.

Consciousness Training

Using Somatics, Shadow Stalking and all forms of self study to develop consciousness.

Curse

A spell that is meant to disempower the receiver as in negative naming.

Dark Night of the Soul

A period of time in The Underworld that causes psychological dismemberment, iinitiation and leads to soul evolution and personal layer maturation.

Decoding Mind

Mind that receives data and organizes it rather than coming to conclusions or making predictions.

Dismemberment

Used here to describe the taking apart of old ways, old patterns and old self, often physically and psychologically excruciating but necessary for soul growth and consciousness training.

Emergence

Any issue or dynamic including and inner tension that pushes up to the surface a d can be cooped by mind and made into an “emergency” through thinking and fixing energy.

Heart Path

The committed path of love and remember our connection to everything and everyone everywhere.

Including

The movement of containing shadow or energy that had been excluded through shadow projection and distancing mind.

Initiation

Any trauma or dynamic that results in purposeful or accidental wounding which leads us to a deeper self and a passage into a more mature state.

Inner work

Attending to issues through liminal awareness, Somatics and processes that happen inside of bodymind rather than in the outer world.

Integration

The slow and conscious process of including shadow, archetypes, pain or initiation that happens over time and leads to wholeness.

Intuition

The inner knowing that comes from our omnipresent self in connection to source.

Limen

The In Between world, neither unconscious or fully conscious, where awareness of non ordinary reality and multiple states or consciousness commingle.

Liminal

Used to describe a general state of being neither conscious or unconscious.

Magic

Various non ordinary abilities attained through soul evolution.

Mission

The reason for incarnating, a special purpose each individual has that benefits the collective.

Naming

A magical tool

to either empower or disempower the named or one doing the naming.

Omnipresent

An ability to be “non-local”, or to have awareness that the self expands beyond the ordinary world or overworld to everything and everyone everywhere.

Overworld

The ordinary waking world, the matrix, either a bad simulation or a good reality, what we think of as “life”.

Pronoia

The idea that the universe is conspiring in your favor, coined by Rob Breszney.

Quantum Self

The self that is omnipresent

Re-memberment

The stitching back together of self after initiation through wounding or psychic dismemberment which results in remembering our largest identity as Witness Consciousness connected to all.

Shadow

Anything we deny or see as negative in others.

Sleeping Dream

Dreams we can decode that come from the sleeping state.

Soma

From Sanskrit - Juice, Elixir of the Soma plant, The Moon, Water, Vishnu. From Greek - Body.

Somagnosis

Intuition informed intelligence or inner knowing, gnenerated primarily through conscious connection with soma.

Somatics

Techniques and exercises that access the physical and energy body to release trauma or anything held in body. Pioneers of Somatics include all schools of Hatha yoga and more recently Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen, Ida Rolf, Peter Levine, and David Berceli.

Somatic Recapitulation

The technique of accessing body memory to reclaim soul fragments.

Soul

The mysterious, energetic self that is a part of the collective soul and source.

Soul Evolution

The results of consciousness training which develops capacity for shadow and awareness of true self.

Spell

A curse or a blessing, known or unknown that traps self or other into a god or bad reality.

Symbol

A thing that represents something else.

Trap

Any part of life, self or the world that we resist but becomes our liberator through consciousness training and collaboration with it.

Undervoice

An unloving self talking or critical inner voice.

Underworld

The place we volunterrily or accidentally go that might feel bad, like “hell” where our soul fragments are lost, or where we get lost when we go unconscious. Journeys here are required for soul evolution and consciousness training.

Waking dream

Life.

Wetiko

The predatory mind virus that uses thinking to deplete life force.

Witness Consciousness

The true self and largest possible identity while incarnated that has the ability to witness reality, self, and contain the personal self, the universal self and all layers of reality and also develops magical powers in order to benefit the collective.