Projection

• Projection comes from the energy body. You have an incredible radiance in that energy body already so it is just a matter of extending it out. I remember how a dancer, Isadora Duncan, described it. She said that she would begin to connect with the audience and imagine that energy would emanate out from her onto them through her finger tips, she said that their energy would come into her crown and So the projection is most powerful when there is both connection internally with the place of power in oneself, ones own depth and dimension, and with those that one is connecting.
• Projection….on the other hand….is casting ones own self, anger, sadness, joy, or love onto someone else who becomes the object of the ownership. It is usually material, emotions, or patterns that are disowned parts of the self.
• I love projection! When I finally understood how it worked, it became such an important Life tool. Here is another person acting as my movie screen or mirror. Before, I would go about my life and find myself criticizing someone. “Gee, I can’t believe she is wearing that dress. She looks so fat. I would never go out in public like that!” Then a wise teacher explained projection to a group I was in. He stated it as the “pointing finger.” If you make that hand gesture, the pointing finger, you will find that there is one pointing finger towards the person you are criticizing and three pointing back at you!  Meaning, you saw a part of yourself that was unconscious on the other person. You are actually criticizing yourself! I would need to be looking at self-esteem issues, weight issues and societal issues within myself! Once taking time and effort to investigate and search out how these feelings and thoughts effect me and heal those aspects of myself, I became comfortable with myself. The pointing finger disappeared and there was no need for the movie screen or mirror any longer. Projection is such a gift!
• Projection is the act of attributing your own traits on to another person – this can be conscious or unconscious on the part of the individual using projection. If we blame someone for something we have done, we are consciously projecting. No matter whether projection is conscious or unconscious it can cause a lot of confusion, distress and fear for all concerned.
• Projection is seeing, blaming and/or holding others accountable for aspects of your own psyche, which remain hidden in the unconscious by repression and/or suppression.
• Projection: we only ever meet ourselves. What we admire in the other is but us. What we despise is but us. We cannot recognize something truly alien. The truly alien does not register. It is like the story of the Native American Indians who could not see the ship sailing into shore because they had never seen one before. It was unrecognizable. Likewise, whatever we recognize in the other, be it something we value or something we disown, it is but ourselves.
• Projection may be based in the brains capacity of pattern recognition. It is as if there is this constant scanning and categorizing for sameness. I wonder how much of the deepest reptilian brain operates on pattern recognition? As we have evolved I think we are still basically pattern recognition and the newest rendition, a sense of self. Me, not me.Then we add an amazing capacity to feel and process emotion, attachment, pride, better than/less then and a complex smokey mirror arrives on the scene and the self/not self gets a little blurred. I know that the first level of shadow work is that what we see in others is what we can not see in ourselves. In time we learn to own it and take it back, no matter if it is positive or negative projection. This allow others to carry it until we can carry it ourselves consciously. Then there is this curious piece of a strong projection both viewed in an enhancing way or in a pejorative way … and it may be the very element held outside of ourselves, that we sorely need and don’t have access to. When we see it in others there is a new possibility and a door opens.