Cory Muscara
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
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It's a great framework for seeing how you could do years and decades of shadow work and make great progress in terms of your ability to be with your inner child and take full custody of it and do those parts works and all of it and still live so much heavily identified in your mind and story and trying to improve it. And that can be a never-ending journey.
It's a great framework for seeing how you could do years and decades of shadow work and make great progress in terms of your ability to be with your inner child and take full custody of it and do those parts works and all of it and still live so much heavily identified in your mind and story and trying to improve it. And that can be a never-ending journey.
On the flip side, you can go deep into the contemplative practices and waking up beyond the story and still be an asshole. You can have a lot of those character things that are not resolved because no matter how much you become aware and separate yourself from a story, you still have a personality structure in there that you'll go back to, especially if you have a family and you live in society.
On the flip side, you can go deep into the contemplative practices and waking up beyond the story and still be an asshole. You can have a lot of those character things that are not resolved because no matter how much you become aware and separate yourself from a story, you still have a personality structure in there that you'll go back to, especially if you have a family and you live in society.
On the flip side, you can go deep into the contemplative practices and waking up beyond the story and still be an asshole. You can have a lot of those character things that are not resolved because no matter how much you become aware and separate yourself from a story, you still have a personality structure in there that you'll go back to, especially if you have a family and you live in society.
And so they're both needed. And like you spoke to earlier, We've seen so many examples of both, of the spiritual teacher who dies of alcoholism, of the enlightened guru that sexually abuses, right? What is that? Why does that happen? It's because there's all this other characterological stuff that's not addressed and can't be addressed from just the waking up perspective.
And so they're both needed. And like you spoke to earlier, We've seen so many examples of both, of the spiritual teacher who dies of alcoholism, of the enlightened guru that sexually abuses, right? What is that? Why does that happen? It's because there's all this other characterological stuff that's not addressed and can't be addressed from just the waking up perspective.
And so they're both needed. And like you spoke to earlier, We've seen so many examples of both, of the spiritual teacher who dies of alcoholism, of the enlightened guru that sexually abuses, right? What is that? Why does that happen? It's because there's all this other characterological stuff that's not addressed and can't be addressed from just the waking up perspective.
and we've we know obviously and you can experience a lot of of individuals who continue to do shadow work and continue to do the inner excavation uh which is amazing it's noble and um and it's a never-ending path unless you start to wake up beyond the the illusion of any story right um and so This, I think, ties nicely in also with your face model.
and we've we know obviously and you can experience a lot of of individuals who continue to do shadow work and continue to do the inner excavation uh which is amazing it's noble and um and it's a never-ending path unless you start to wake up beyond the the illusion of any story right um and so This, I think, ties nicely in also with your face model.
and we've we know obviously and you can experience a lot of of individuals who continue to do shadow work and continue to do the inner excavation uh which is amazing it's noble and um and it's a never-ending path unless you start to wake up beyond the the illusion of any story right um and so This, I think, ties nicely in also with your face model.
And so if you'd like to share kind of your process of how you orient yourself towards this, because what's really been useful and not just sharing your story, because that's amazing as well, but all these
And so if you'd like to share kind of your process of how you orient yourself towards this, because what's really been useful and not just sharing your story, because that's amazing as well, but all these
And so if you'd like to share kind of your process of how you orient yourself towards this, because what's really been useful and not just sharing your story, because that's amazing as well, but all these
practical examples you've given of how whoever's listening to this right now can engage in their next challenging moment that happens in their life or when they go home and something happens, pleasant or unpleasant, they have more tools, like an internal capacity and capability to be with anything. Like that's a truly powerful individual. And I think some frameworks like that would support.
practical examples you've given of how whoever's listening to this right now can engage in their next challenging moment that happens in their life or when they go home and something happens, pleasant or unpleasant, they have more tools, like an internal capacity and capability to be with anything. Like that's a truly powerful individual. And I think some frameworks like that would support.
practical examples you've given of how whoever's listening to this right now can engage in their next challenging moment that happens in their life or when they go home and something happens, pleasant or unpleasant, they have more tools, like an internal capacity and capability to be with anything. Like that's a truly powerful individual. And I think some frameworks like that would support.
So yeah, yeah.
So yeah, yeah.
So yeah, yeah.