Didn't know you were in Thailand, Ashley. Not sure if you are living in country, but I am. This point you make about confronting what Carl Jung called "the shadow" is of increasing pertinence as the world continues descending further and deeper into materialism and separation from truth. People, as individuals and collectives, are suppressing so much STUFF, and the result is that reality becomes increasingly warped/perverted as all of those suppressed emotions literally distort the fabric of reality. This is why the world, overall, is looking increasingly "absurd". Absurdity has become the NEW NORM, which is a real head-screw for the select number of us who strive to live our lives "one nervous breakdown at a time", and who FIGHT to take this MONSTROUS "absurd" reality and turn it into our BITCH. We thumb our noses at it, we give it the trans-dimensional FINGER, and we refuse to allow it to CONSUME and POSSESS us, as it does the great "masses of asses" who are mere VECTORS of its CONJECTURE.

You give some FINE "mental head", which really gets my GLANDS pumping ... Keep it up...