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Absorb your shadow | Buddhism for Vampires

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Absorbing your shadow means embracing your monstrous power while cultivating your human nobility.

Image courtesy Inextremiss We can embrace our monstrosity while cultivating our human nobility. We can allow each to transform the other, so we become cheerful, kind, useful monsters who are also overpowering, unpredictable, and dangerous heroes. How? In “ Eating the shadow ,” I suggested five phases: hunting, chewing, swallowing, digesting, and burning. My previous essay explained how to hunt the shadow—how to find the tracks of aspects of being you have exiled and forgotten. Passions, for example, that you do not know you have: Listen for the slightest, momentary flickers of velleity . A “ve

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