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“As a dreamer, you're inevitably called to dream yourself awake using the full resources of your imagination and heart. You may have buried or repressed your season of insight, but it happened, and now you are irrevocably changed.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“But Jung also pointed out: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Fear is excitement without the breath,”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“As we dreamers make our souls into evolved fields, our genius is nutured and our presence and everything we create becomes charged and capable of positively altering the fields of others. In this process, we become more essentially human-which is to say, paradoxically, more divine.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“The magical worldview is this: As above, so below. As within, so without.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Fear is just excitement without breath.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“The English word psyche, meaning “soul” or “mind,” comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“I'm saying: Adopt an aesthetic rather than a moral attitude to your feeling states. In doing this, you practice being the artist of your life rather than the judge of it.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine or through devolving lower into the world. This is how some people with great genius come to die of drug and alcohol addiction: they seek inspiration by intoxication and are thereby ruined.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“The thing about reaction formations is that they are reactions, and not responses to life. Genuine responsive emotions have an open, connecting, “moving” quality to them. They feel fresh and spontaneous including “dark” genuine emotions like anger and grief.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“While society sometimes carelessly refers to sociopathic, narcissistic behavior as “shameless,” people with sociopathic narcissism are so burdened by neurotic shame that they can't empathically feel their impact on other people, or even feel their own authentic desire for connection.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Before you can tame your genius spirit, you have to find her.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“Remember, “having is evidence of wanting”—if there's a situation or a feeling that's present in your life, no matter how awful it is, it's present with you not because it's “true” or “real” but because some part of the vast, strange, kinky Self that you are finds it fascinating, compelling, beautiful. And it's time to let that part of yourself and its taboo pleasures come to your conscious agreement and embrace.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Also, if you're depressed I suggest that you check out EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), which involves tapping on acupressure points while saying helpful statements. You can also easily find demonstrations of this process on YouTube.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“the unconscious divine Self that we all are wants to experience everything; it deeply wants to experience it all. Otherwise, why would the Self that we are have bothered to incarnate into duality?”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“But Jung also pointed out: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“The Parable of the Six Kinds of Beings There's a Buddhist parable that describes the generative, fictional function of awareness quite well. Here's how the 17th century Tibetan monk Ngawang Kunga Tenzin explained the parable: Ultimately there is nothing other than mind alone; nevertheless, because of delusion and karma it manifests as all kinds of things. This is similar to the different perceptions of water by the six kinds of beings. Water is indeed only one thing, but if the six kinds of beings were together at a river bank, when looking at it they would see it in different ways. A being of a hot hell would see a river of fire, while one from a cold hell would see it as snow and ice. For the hungry ghosts known as pretas it would be pus and blood. Animals who live underwater would see it as their abode, while those scattered on land would see it as drink. Humans would also see it as drink, and accordingly they would classify it into drinking or non-drinking water. The demigods called asuras would perceive it as weaponry. Gods would see it as nectar (amrita). So beings would see what we perceive as water in different ways according to their particular karmic perception and thus water becomes manifold. This is known as the karmic perception of one's mind. Ultimately things do not exist outside—they are only projections of the mind. —from The Royal Seal of Mahamudra, Volume One, A Guidebook for the Realization of Co-emergence”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Imagine that you're a kind of cosmic masochistic slut (and I mean that in the nicest possible way—yay sluts!) who just beamed down into your life and body. She feels the heart-pounding panic of impending doom too, and she loves it. She feels the pressure of having to find a way to make ends meet again this month, and it turns her on. She feels the stretch and strain of having to prove herself worthy of support in this hard, cold world, and she trembles and moans and asks for more. Plus, let's not forget—she feels the righteous resentment of the evil rich corporatists and politicians who made this world so unbalanced—and well, there are few things more luscious in this sublunar realm than a big stinging heap of righteousness.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“No one is “to blame” for anything—everything just is for some unfathomable reason . . . and we have the option of divinely enjoying it, divinely grieving it, or humanly resenting it.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Reminder: I am not a psychologist or a medical professional. That said, as another human being who has suffered trauma, I suggest plenty of regular ole' therapy, exploring bodywork and acupuncture, gathering tons of support from friends, and moving heaven and earth to get thyself to many ayahuasca ceremonies and to legal MDMA therapy sessions if you can find them. Ayahuasca is the most useful, beautiful, and rapid means I know of for addressing deep trauma (it has helped me immensely), and studies have shown that MDMA in a therapeutic context is also quite powerful for resolving trauma. I am proposing that you consider using these kinds of intense entheogenic substances only in well-held spaces with experienced healers, not just because I'm a giant hippie, but because they work.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“A common-place book is a technology of resistance against getting lost on the urgent surface of life.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius: A Seven-Step Path to Freeing Your Creativity and Manifesting Your Dreams

“When you're in total, turned-on approval of your state, you're deciding to see that state as a way that you are “good for yourself” rather than as a way that you are “bad for yourself.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“2) We have a choice as to whether we experience sensation as pleasure or as pain”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Two of the most popular TV series in the world at the time of me writing this book, for example, are Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. Both shows feature big piles of violence, grief, pain, and horror. There are also heroines and heroes striving epically against all odds to survive and help others to survive as well. These shows are terrifying and people love them.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“6) Get on the side of your shadow (your previously unconscious sense of desire/curiosity/enjoyment) and deliberately, consciously, humbly allow yourself to receive, feel big gratitude for, and get off on the situation your unconscious so brilliantly created.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“The paradox is that once you fully commit to being who you already are, having what you already have, and hugely celebrating it, you become a masterful practical magician, a force of nature capable of shifting circumstances very easily.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Because as long as the hungry ghost believes that only the deprivation he already perceives is real, he will continue to perceive only deprivation. That's the vicious circle.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power