Shadow work- the practice of acknowledging, facing, engaging, and integrating what we have turned away from, disowned, or otherwise rejected in ourselves—is not significantly taken into account in religion and most spiritual paths, especially those that marginalize or insufficiently address the psychological and emotional dimensions of experience. None of this is to say that religion and spirituality should be doing the job of psychology, but that they need to be more in touch with and supportive of practices like shadow work.
P. 43 Spiritual Bypassing by Robert Augustus Masters, Phd 2010 North Atlantic Books, Berkley, California

This book is saying things I have observed in my own sociological experiments by immersing myself
in the new age electronica subculture and closely working with hundreds of indivuduals, one on one, young to old. It is important to note that I am not discounting spirituality, or the practices involved with spirituality, it is a area that is wide open, although at the same time I can’t help but notice how fast it is growing, which begs the question, are we collectively fast tracking to a place of ‘feel good’ and simply forgetting or ‘not dealing with’ the very things we are moving forward from? Ever wonder why the ‘dark side’ is commonly seen or depicted with such disdain and negativity? The search continues…
Fotomahaloness -when you look at these images whatdo you see?
Painting of a woman who grieves th loss of her child to war
And a analog to digital abstract #556, the dark side of purple