That 'meet their shadow people' meme

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AIBU to want to punch the five people I've seen posting that meme on facebook today? And is it worse that they're all normally perfectly sensible people?

For context if you haven't seen it, it's a meme that basically says the planet will self-correct after we do a bit of meditation. Some of us will ' meet our shadow people', ie die, but that's all ticketty boo because then we'll dance and heal.

I have an old father, a mother with COPD and a brother who is immunosupressed after cancer treatment. My entire maternal family could be wiped out by this virus, and it's going to take a bit more than dancing to the earth's music to get me over that.

Sounds wanky, and and and and and

Meeting your shadow is in reference to shadow work surely?

Shadow Work ishow you integrate the aspects of your unconscious psyche into your conscious experience and allow the positive aspects of theshadowto express themselves. When properly used and channeled, theshadow-selfhas traits that you can use to further your own personal development. (copied from google)

Yes, YABU for telling people how to grieve for their way of life and for having hope. You're on here, telling us about your struggles and presumably you're getting some comfort from venting. Why can't they have the same courtesy? Unfriend them rather than punch though. These are uncertain times and you need to develop a bit more tolerance.

I thought as you did too OP when I first read it - I was so surprised about people being so flippant about some people dying. But when I re-read it I do think it means meeting the darker parts of yourself, or accepting your history.

It’s still bloody annoying though but I am marginally less outraged by it

People are terrified so if this gives them comfort leave them to it.

Yeah sorry guys, it isn’t about dying. It’s about confronting the dark parts of yourself that you tend to ignore or overshadow with ‘busy’ life.

It’s a literal reference to a film, Us.

The idea of a 'shadow self' comes from Jung psychology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_%28psychology%29

All the dark parts of our personality we suppress and keep unconscious. The parts of people that tend to emerge when there is a crisis (violence, selfishness, etc).

With this context, I imagine talk of "meeting their shadow" means seeing the parts of themselves they are less comfortable with, and confronting them.