DECRYPTION Hidden within Buster Bunny rests the Jungian shadow of conditioned behavior. The cartoons we grew up with taught us how to laugh, what to want and who to be, and many of those lessons were never chosen. We repeat them and call it personality. This egregore feeds on unexamined imitation, the belief that our tastes, opinions and reactions are entirely our own. Shadow work asks us to trace our habits back to their source. Some of what we find will be ours to keep. Much of it was fed to us, one bite at a time.
INVITATION Which of your opinions, cravings or reactions did you actually choose, and which were handed to you? If you stopped doing what you were taught to do, what would you do instead?
