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IS THIS AN ANOMALY OR DESTINY? — SHADOW CONFRONTATION REQUIRED

Rip Parker
3 min readNov 7, 2024

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Why did I never consider we would arrive at this point? I was blinded by my own bias and naiveté.

Answer: this is destiny. We have brought about this circumstance of having elected our future would be dictator to power.

Our social construct requires that we encounter our dark side now. We have closed our eyes to who we are, filling our shadow with the denied truth. We are now required to face our truth. This is important. It will be painful. We will be enlightened thereby.

This season comes to us all. It is required for our growth. It is always painful. Many of our most important learnings come draped in pain. Pain is like a nightmare. It demands our attention, and reveals an important learning.

Donald Trump is not an accident. He is thrust upon us with great intent to open the infected wound residing in our deepest selves before it destroys us.

We have denied our truth. Only with pain can we be forced to face that truth residing in our shadows.

These circumstances have been building since the beginning of this nation. We have inherited and contributed to our current condition. It cannot go on. Only we can heal ourselves by facing our illness.

Trump has torn open the wound, exposed the infection, and poured more toxicity into it. He has precipitated our crisis. Crisis must come before healing.

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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