Carl Jung once said, “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.” In today’s fractured masculine identity, that darkness has turned inward — breeding conflict, loneliness, and the desperate need for balance between mind, spirit, and matter.
Introduction: The Shadow Beneath Strength
The modern man stands tall — chemically potent, technologically skilled, yet spiritually fractured. Carl Gustav Jung’s insight into the “shadow self” feels more urgent than ever. Behind stoic expressions and testosterone-fueled pride hides a generation of men unable to express pain or inadequacy. Instead, anger becomes armor, and dominance a disguise.
This unhealed masculine energy — detached from empathy and soul — becomes the quiet source of war, conflict, and relational disharmony.
The Closet of Shadows
Men who cannot voice their emotional incompetence retreat inward. In the dark corridors of suppressed memory, their shadow brews — often erupting as rage, addiction, or control. The incubus of denial festers in the psyche, hallucinating conquest through domination. Yet what he truly seeks is connection — the feminine principle he both fears and desires.
The tragedy of modern man is his inability to meet his own shadow with compassion. He externalizes his demons — projecting betrayal, mistrust, and blame — while his heart aches for self-acceptance.
The Feminine Man and Healing Through Art
But there is another path. The feminine man — one attuned to his anima — learns to dissolve fake masculine programming. Through music, dance, and art, he awakens the blocked Kundalini energy within, transmuting trauma into creative flow. When the light of awareness meets the darkness of suppression, a holistic healing experience unfolds.
Empaths and narcissists may still find each other — light and shadow in magnetic pull — but awareness can rewrite the pattern. Breaking generational trauma means healing the somatic memory stored in the body, the cells, the DNA.
The 7 Laws of Awakening
A healed man learns to live by the ancient Hermetic principles — the laws of inner alchemy that lead toward equipoise:
- Mentalism – All is mind; thought is creation.
- Correspondence – As above, so below; as within, so without.
- Vibration – Everything is in motion.
- Polarity – Every truth has its opposite.
- Rhythm – All things rise and fall.
- Cause and Effect – Every action creates emotional resonance.
- Gender – Both masculine and feminine energies reside in all beings.
To embody these is to return to the solar pure mind codex — a state where perception, intuition, and knowing form a radiant circuit of consciousness.
Two Archetypes of Men
There are two kinds of men walking the earth:
- The Dispersed: They misuse their primal energy, seeking validation through fleeting pleasures. They indulge instinct without purpose — dissipating power, losing inner sovereignty.
2. The Reserved: They conserve energy, let patience guide them, and wait for a union that catalyzes ascension — body aligned with light, heart with truth.
Awakening occurs when solar consciousness meets heart intelligence — the Pure Mind Codex activates perception, intuition, and spiritual rebirth.
The Embodied Path
True enlightenment is not escape — it is embodiment. It is not ascent alone, but the radiant circulation of spirit through matter. Transformation and awakening are not separate; they accompany each other in divine rhythm.
The yogic lore calls this Azoth, the alchemical field where Shiva holds poison in his throat — the blue of Neelkanth. The azure spot on the sternum becomes the generator of an electromagnetic heart field — magnifying love as the highest vibration.
When man and woman unite through heart coherence, their combined field becomes a living temple — love that pours without condition.
Conclusion: The Radiant Man
The healed man is not superior, nor subdued. He is balanced. He carries his shadow in one hand and light in the other. He understands that divinity lies not in perfection, but in integration — in the dance between heaven and earth, spirit and body, reason and feeling.
Only then does masculinity transcend domination and become devotion.
Dr Gouri Kumra,
Clinical Gynecologist;
Spiritual / Creative Healer & Columnist
@ News365 Times
