I know Debbie Ford. As a matter of fact, I know almost everyone in her movie, The Shadow Effect.
I interviewed them on my TV show on Wisdom Television so I studied their books and spent much time speaking with them.
Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Mark Victor Hansen, James Van Praagh. I love these people.
I can vouch for everyone above that they are sincere and are dedicated to helping. With all their hearts. They are good people.
But I have to admit The Shadow Effect was a surprise to me. It goes much deeper than I thought it would.
Especially, Debbie, who is the star of the show. She has developed from an accomplished writer who was even a little shy when I met her to – just as I said – a STAR!
If you are going to invest in this movie, either as a download or in a group or as a purchase of the DVD, I thought I should prepare you.
This is not a goody two shoes, woo woo consciousness, make-you-feel- good-self- help movie.
The only word I can conjure up at this moment is that this is a -
EXORCISM
It will shake your being. The being you have hidden from others – and – most important – the secrets you have held that you share with no one. Not even yourself.
The “shadow” is the self that you hide. That you cover up, very carefully. You have substituted a whole different self you show to the world. You have started to believe it yourself. You have a public life and a private life. Don’t go there into the shadow because it is terrifying.
Except it is there. It could be shame you have carried since you were a child. Deep within you and it comes out like an erupting volcano when you least expect it.
This DVD set is in parts. The first a documentary. The second an interactive experience where you are asked questions which are designed to bring your secrets out into the open. Privately, in your living room perhaps.
One of the important questions you will be asked is a nice one. “What do you like best about yourself?” Then, think of all the people you know who reflect those qualities. They are all you.
Then, the zinger. “What do you dislike most about yourself?” Think of the people you don’t like and then come back to yourself. Could this be a projection? Are these things MY shadow? Am I transferring my own darkness onto others? Is this why I avoid these people?
Is it possible that these projections are holding you back from happiness and contentment? What if – as is stated in this movie –
WHAT WE CAN’T BE WITH WON’T LET US BE.
This movie is not a condemnation. It is an exercise in awareness. Of bringing our worst selves into the cold bright day of the sunshine. Taking a good look and deciding if we need to hide those secrets anymore even from ourselves.
I have known about the “shadow” for a long time. I just did not know what to call it.
My opinion is that it never really leaves us. It is an imprint.
The benefit of this movie is that you will suddenly know who it is. It will have a first and last name and you can call it out when it inspires us to act destructively. You will become aware it is there.
So, when something comes up, we can say to it –
Damn! There you are again. Get lost.
As Deepak Chopra says –
“The sinner and the saint are only exchanging notes.”
I would say – be brave enough to see this movie. You might be surprised at what you uncover. I was.
To purchase the DVD
The Shadow Effect Movie DVD
To buy the online version:
Watch The Shadow Effect Online
Twitter: http://twitter.com/debbie_ford
Featuring as guests in The Shadow Effect
Deepak Chopra
Website: http://deepakchopra.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/deepakchopra
Marianne Williamson
Website: http://www.marianne.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/marwilliamson
James Van Praagh
Website: http://www.vanpraagh.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JamesVanPraagh
Website: http://www.markvictorhansen.com
Please note that this blog does not benefit if you buy the movie.
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Corinne, I’ve been screening this movie in living rooms on the west coast since it came out June 26. You have given words to an experience that is observed by me as ’silence.’ The self-reflection that magically occurs while watching this movie facilitates the internal paradigm shift that frees people from their internal bondage.
After EVERY screening the room has been totally silent, and every person has had a shift in consciousness. (They’ve told me afterwards.)
One person asked me, “Where can I buy this movie, so I can watch it and cry?”
This is a movie for anyone wanting more freedom in their choices and interaction with their environment.
Thanks for reviewing The Shadow Effect movie, Corinne.
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It is truly a powerful message for all of us. To not confront and manage our shadows only condemns us to a life of mediocrity. Thanks for enlightening us.
I’m sick and tired of spending time with my Shadow side (I have been at this work since 1980) and need to spend more time with my Sunny side. I had a wonderful shrink years ago and he said “I’m not worried about you with pain, I’m wondering if you can handle pleasure.”
That’s my road these days kids, but I do suggest Debbie’s info. She has a lot to say.
OK my dear, dear, Lily Rose -
What an inspiring thought.
“I’m not worried about you with pain, I’m wondering in you can handle pleasure.”
I am going to think about that all day!
Dear CK -
I can see why people would want to cry after seeing this movie. Although it is a superb production, there are some very sad stories.
I would really advise them to buy the DVD and watch it privately. Many people would prefer not to share their deepest fears and secrets with others.
As a very wise, dear friend of mine once said – no wait a minute it was me -
‘Walk in the light – but sleep in the shade’.
Thanks for this Corinne.
I am an extremely effective spiritual healer and psychic who over the years has been constantly bombarded with this notion of “THE LIGHT”, by teachers and late comers to the spiritual scene, because I do not have the Polly-Anna attitude that New Agers demand. How can I? For one thing I am way passt the honeymoon period of the Path, and it anyone with experience knows that it flips over into the Dark Night of the Soul. Having done some extremely deep and painful shadow work, I find these Light Bunnies re not only immature, nut lack compassion and depth. If you don’t own the dark side, if you don’t experience it, you can be smug, self righteous and blind to the pain you cause others.
This isn’t to say I give negative, scary readings. I couldn’t do that as my life has demanded I learn to problem solve. But there are times I have had to say to people “There is no big hand in the sky that will grant your every wish.” or “God helps those that help themselves.” because many people think if they are ‘positive’ the things they want will be handed to them on a platter. It is of course good to stay positive, but it doesn’t mean that man is going to love you, and you can make a right fool of yourself believing an illusion.
I have come out of poverty and sink back into at times not because it is how I believe my self to have to be, and certainly not because I enjoy being poor, ie: “poverty consciousness’ (what does that mean anyway except to be conscious that there is poverty) but because for generations my family has not known the first thing about money. how to be supportive, ambitious, middle class, and has no connections or the social skills that are needed to break through to the places where the money is– for a spiritual /artist type like me, it is a recipe for struggle. Its that simple. The use of these terms to judge others while patting your self on the back is such glaring projection of fear that if it weren’t so painful it would be funny. The condemnation that comes at you for not having ‘abundance’ is just mean spirited one-up-man-ship. Never mind the projections of so-called Christians. or worse, pseudo Buddhists who tell you ‘chose’ your circumstances and your parents — of course they chose well before they were born so they don’t have these problems, therefore if you do you only got what you asked for!!!!!
Am I the only person who sees how outrageously arrogant that is?
The shadow has to be faced. But when the shadow is always present, as it is in some people’s lives, it is important to understand its meaning so you can take those lemons and make lemonade. You have, at least , the ability to gain wisdom from this nigredo; you understand a side of life that, especially in America, is somehow not supposed to exist. Some of us, unfortunately, are stuck having to carry the shadow of the culture at large — which is why I prefer living in Europe where history has proven that people can live at many levels of society, and some of the most brilliant, sensitive, and talented have had to struggle. Plus they support artists.
Hope that’s not too long. I don’t often rant.
Hi Arlene -
Rant away on this blog.
We value your opinion.
I am sure some will agree with you!
Thanks for taking the time.
Arlene
Sorry I got a bit carried away, but this perspective has been so long in coming that I was just too moved. The reason I started my Winterspells blog was to initially address this very thing.
It looks like a great quality film.
So thanks again, Corinne.
I do know how to paragraph, by the way…
Arlene — When I gave up hope, my life got better.
I was into this kind of thing for many years but when I had a spontaneous awaking experience in 2005 I saw through it and gave it up.
In essence we are not what we think we are. One view is that we are separate beings existing in space and time; we have sides, stories, karma, home mortgages and so on. All this is just an appearance generated from and refreshed from instant to instant by the mind which hides what we are creating the separation, the story, the light, dark, the gods and whatever else we apparently perceive.
When separation is seen as an illusion all that falls away. The search for answers is over as the questions are illusionary as well, all based on the incorrect perception that we are an object coming from somewhere and going to someplace else. It’s all total perfection just as it is. Nothing needs to change or stay the same. “THIS” is all there is.
Jerry
Dear Jerry -
Sounds like the text in A Course in Miracles. Are you a student of ACIM?
No, I don’t know anything about A Course in Miracles. My expereince
is realted to Advaita-Vendata or Non-Duality. Names in that tradition include Ramana Maharshi, Tony Parsons, John Sherman, Issac Shapario, Adyashanti and others.
Jerry
I wasted $23 (DVD, S+H) for a shallow infomercial with almost no information, this was just a commercial for Debbie Ford’s classes. It is not exactly a revelation that we have a “dark side.” Plenty of other new-agy cliches await on the DVD – like you project onto others what you don’t like about yourself – WOW – never thought of that! ! And the production was so cheesy; stupid re-enactments and truly overbearing corny music blasting through the entire thing. The music is what made the whole DVD seem somewhat humorous, since every sad story was accompanied by truly corny music, every triumph accompanied be corny triumphant music. The filmmakers knew they had nothing and so they thought they would fool people into thinking they were actually seeing something by putting in really loud self important music. The music attempts to “project” what we are supposed to feel, talk about “projecting! There was nothing to this movie – what a waste, don’t waste your money!
Michael,
I haven’t seen it but I’m not surprised by your experience. New Age/Personal Transformation promoters abound, with a very few being of some value and most just used car sales people without the garish checkered sport coats and mis-matched slacks. In fact the really bad New Age types will dress in robes, usually white, or have a glow from sloppy Photo Shop editing.
They mostly have a run of a couple of years where they are IN, then slowly fade like a washed up musician playing ever seedier clubs and bars. Remember Gary Zukov? Once a high flyer, now playing 75 seat auditoriums if he can get that. Caroline Myss? Where did she go to? Wayne Dyer is still spouting the same inane drivel he has done for the last decade…no change there.
My advice: save your money or spend it on chocolate or beer. NOBODY is going to sell you the answer to anything of any value for $29.95.
Jerry
Corinne, thanks for this article and the one where you shared the above comments of Jerry and Michael. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I have read 2 of Debbie Ford’s books and learned from both of them. I have been aware of my shadow side for some time. Debbie’s information may not be new to some but it very useful to those who are just beginning on their spiritual journey and to those of us who are just beginning to look at what our own responsibility might be in our lives.
I liked what Arlene called her rant.
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Choose Your New Age Guru With Care
James Authur Ray, the author of “The Secret”, might be conducting few $10,000 week long seminars in the new future as he is a potential suspect in an investigation of the death of three people during one of his “sweat lodge” ceremonies.
See below for part of the story from the AP.
I’ve attended over 40 sweat lodge ceremonies myself, all conducted by people who where real Native Americans (in contract to New Age Gurus) and there were never any injuries, yet less deaths. So my question is if you are smart enough to make a fortune selling self help books, why aren’t you smart enough to hire somebody who knows how to run a sweat lodge and thus avoid killing your customers. This kind of things is bad for business. The answers is likely that this guy is so lost in his own ego that common sense, yet less spiritual wisdom is absent.
Let the buyer of this kind of thing beware…you risk your life in addition to wasting your money.
Jerry
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An Arizona homicide investigation now includes three deaths after a woman died more than a week after participating in a sweat lodge ceremony that hospitalized nearly two dozen people.
Liz Neuman of Minnesota died Saturday at a Flagstaff hospital, Yavapai County sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said.
The 49-year-old suffered multiple organ damage during the Oct. 8 ceremony at a resort near Sedona, a resort town 115 miles north of Phoenix that draws many in the New Age spiritual movement.
Authorities were treating all three deaths as homicides, but no charges have been filed.
D’Evelyn did not provide a city of residence for Neuman, but public records showed an address in Prior Lake, about 25 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
Neuman was among more than 50 people crowded inside the sweat lodge run by self-help guru James Arthur Ray.
Hi Jerry -
As a news junkie, I have followed this terrible story closely.
But I never knew that people would pay that kind of money to anyone – even Jesus Christ himself – for a seminar.
Personally, I would have bought a nice segment of the World Cruise on the QueenMary2.
I know people who have done sweat lodges and it always has scared me. Besides, I hate heat. We had a real Finnish sauna in our house and after 10 mnutes, I could hardly walk up the stairs.
But they are people who try anything woo-woo new age.
Like my cousin. I even wrote a poem about her. And a lot of her friends.
Thought it might amuse you.
http://www.personal-growth-with-corinne-edwards.com/consciousness-circuit-the-way-it-was-back-then/
Your point about choosing your guru with care is an important warning.
Thank you.