teaching #4 Evil is different from Shadow and Beautiful Mystery - 7 Realms
🌑 Teaching 4 — Evil is Different from Shadow and Beautiful Mystery
As we explored in the last teachings, shame and scarcity distort our relationships and sever us from authenticity.
Much of this distortion lives in what we call the shadow — the parts of ourselves, our cultures, and our world that we deny, repress, or disown.
Shadow work is not about erasing these parts; it’s about reclaiming and integrating their wisdom.
🌒 Darkness, Blackness & the Birth of All
Darkness — Blackness — is primordial, the birthplace of everything.
I’ve learned from teachers and friends like Cliff Berrien, Barbara Holmes, Resmaa Menakem, Karine Bell and Rooted Global Village, and Bayo Akomolafe about the Afrocene and the importance of Blackness in cosmic history.
We can reclaim the enveloping, loving darkness of the cosmos — remembering that we belong not only to the light, but also to the dark, unseen, and mysterious.
🌌 Shadow, darkness, and mystery are not synonymous with evil.
🔬 Understanding Evil
It’s curious that humans have avoided exploring the nature of evil from a more scientific or quantum perspective — one that acknowledges the existence of other forms of life and intelligence.
Taken out of religion, perhaps evil is more like Stranger Things:
there are many dimensions, filled with beings our eyes cannot see.
Our human eyes evolved for this specific planetary system — perceiving only a tiny spectrum of existence.
There are countless beings — spirits, ancestors, extraterrestrials — already in relationship with us, though we remain largely disconnected because of our immaturity as a species. There are also other dimensions interacting with us. Many ancestral sciences affirmed a quantum reality long before Western science “discovered” it.
⚡ The Nature of Evil
No one truly knows what evil is or where it came from.
My mom says humans are inherently evil — I disagree.
It’s easier to say that than to face that we have made some enormous mistakes.
I am a scientist who has met an evil entity — one that attached to me (like in Ghost Brothers 🙏🏼❤️ or Ghost Adventures: House Calls — love you people!).
These beings can’t be seen with human eyes because they were invited from another dimension, and they feed on unprocessed shame and fear.
This vibration has grown within certain psyches — as seen in figures like Trump and other global power-holders. It’s more than the unconscious; it’s poisonous to life itself.
Evil has been confused with shame in religion, and confused with darkness.
But evil is not the dark.
Darkness is a huge part of the Universe.
Dark matter makes up about 27% of existence — an invisible mass that holds galaxies together.
Dark energy expands creation itself.
We live in a dark, living cosmos — not evil, but fertile, magnetic, creative, potent.
What if we stopped fighting against evil and started healing the wounds within us that give evil life?
🌑 Shadow & Collective Projection
Mystery is the vast terrain of the unexplainable — the yet-unseen within us and the collective. Mystery keeps us humble, curious, and alive.
But colonization severed us from darkness, mystery, the unknown, and death — cutting us off from evolution itself.
Internalized shame keeps us from acknowledging shadow — the natural parts of us deemed:
too intense
too sensitive
too ugly
too strange
too wild
too horrific
too soft
too sexy
too much
Shadow can be frightening because we’ve been out of planetary alignment for centuries.
But as teacher Kai Cheng Thom writes, the unconscious is like deep water — teeming with sharks, yes, but also hidden treasures!
Shadow includes both the grotesque and the dazzling, the wounded and the wise.
It doesn’t only hold rage or jealousy — it also holds:
unmet needs
forgotten gifts
intuition
sensuality and sexuality
joy
immense creative power
wisdom
Shadow is contextual — shaped by ancestry, culture, nervous system, and lived experience. It is also collective.
Colonization, disguised as “civilization,” is one vast shadow play: a denial of grief, rest, and wildness, replaced with control and “light.”
This manifests in binaries like:
first world vs. third world
civilized vs. savage
Modern systems present as “order” while perpetuating violence, extraction, and emotional suppression.
Trump represents our collective shadow — the parts of ourselves that seek dominance, deny emotion, and neglect care.
The invitation is not to blame, but to integrate: to see where we replicate harm and turn toward compassion and integrity.
Here is a 7-minute artistic video FSSL created on shadow work:
Boxed and Labeled
💀 Death: The Great Shadow
Death is our most profound and universal shadow.
It carries fear, loss, and transformation — yet also mystery and renewal.
As a death doula, I sat in ceremony with Bill Flanery and his family as he transitioned. Letting go of his physical form was painful, yet sacred — an energetic transformation within our attachment systems.
After his passing, I felt his presence everywhere — his quantum form. Bill revealed the integrity within death and the ongoing presence of spirit.
Death is not an end. It’s a threshold.
White supremacy and colonization have stripped death of its sacred science — the rituals, practices, and humility needed to accompany souls across.
Generational trauma layered our systems with fear and shame, disconnecting us from its wisdom.
Like autumn leaves, all things must fall, allowing what has completed its cycle to be composted into new life.
What if space travel is already happening here — consciousness itself moving through wormholes at death?
Perhaps we’ll understand this only when Western science humbles itself to learn from Eastern, African, and Indigenous cosmologies.
There will always be mystery, friends.
Here is a 2.5-minute artistic video FSSL created on death:
Here We Go Bill
🌑 Story: Evil, Mystery & the Turning
I have told and retold this story.
Here is a link to a video I made with the beloved Pandemic Players — storytelling that helped me process the unconscious trauma that occurred when I had my first and only encounter with an evil entity:
Sweet Piggies Jump
Up until that point, I had participated in dozens of medicine ceremonies all over South America. I practiced Ashtanga yoga, sat in sweat lodges, taken mushrooms, seen ghosts, walked Peruvian burial grounds — and nothing I had ever seen prepared me for this.
My whole life I’ve been a loving, openhearted person — deeply empathic.
So when my wifey and I brought a new roommate into our house — someone who seemed super cool — I didn’t think much of it.
But slowly, as our energies intertwined, something shifted.
They literally began to feed off my soul.
And I let it happen. I didn’t have good boundaries at the time.
(Boy have I learned them, lol.)
Slowly, my wifey and I allowed this person to take over our home.
At the time, I was wondering how we were going to make it to the Free System.
And then the universe showed me — through my own body — what evil is, and how it interacts with the human psyche.
This was not trauma.
This was something else — a being from another dimension that feeds on shame, fear, and empathy.
It attached to my roommate’s pain, and through that, to my empathy.
Eventually, Madeline Finley — my wifey and beloved midwife — and I realized that our lives were in danger.
We tried resisting and protesting until we realized our lives were in danger.
Then we saw what was truly needed: accountability.
We were in a power struggle with something that does not care about life.
Entities that feed on disconnection.
And yet, we can trust the universe to compost what needs composting.
That’s how life renews itself — again and again.
Now, as humanity, we need to do the scariest and most courageous thing we’ve ever done:
To acknowledge that we have made a mistake in collaborating with intoxicating, addictive forces — through greed, fear, shame, and denial.
To admit this with vulnerability, not shame.
And to turn away — with consciousness and love — and toward the work of building new systems rooted in care, equity, abundance, and belonging!