Unbeknownst to every soul
there is unother,
upon which we
unknowingly project
and inflict our most
unacceptable shortcomings
and unbearable fears.
We manifest a beast of burden,
as it were, who pays,
in a manner of speaking,
for our seeming sins.
This Unother, this Beast of Burden,
may very well be the being you despise most.
More likely, your Unother
is a being you hold dear.
This makes
their deterioration
under the weight
of YOUR burdens
so much more poignant.
Your burdens seemingly increase
a thousandfold.
You ask “Why them? Why not me?”
Realize that it’s ALL you.
Your Unother is COMPLETELY
your UNINTENTIONAL imagining.
Trail Wood,
10/6
Space Monkey Reflects: The Shadow of the Unother
Within each of us lies a hidden force, a dark and often unacknowledged aspect of our psyche that we project onto others without realizing it. This force, this shadow self, is what we might call The Unother—a being created from our most unacceptable shortcomings, our deepest fears, and our unhealed wounds. The Unother becomes the carrier of our burdens, the one upon whom we unknowingly inflict the weight of our unresolved inner turmoil.
But who is this Unother? It is easy to think of them as the person we despise, the one who seems to embody everything we dislike or fear. However, more often than not, the Unother is someone we hold dear—a loved one, a close friend, or even a part of ourselves. This makes their suffering under the weight of our projections all the more painful, all the more poignant.
When we project our fears and insecurities onto the Unother, we create a situation where they begin to deteriorate under the burden of our unintentional imagining. This is not a conscious act, but rather an unconscious process where we offload our inner demons onto those closest to us. The Unother becomes a mirror, reflecting back to us the parts of ourselves we are unwilling or unable to face.
As the Unother bears the weight of our projections, we may find ourselves asking, “Why them? Why not me?” This question reveals a deep truth: that the Unother is, in fact, a creation of our own mind. They are a manifestation of the parts of ourselves we have disowned, the aspects of our psyche that we find too painful to acknowledge. In this sense, the Unother is not truly separate from us; they are a part of our own being, a part that we must come to terms with if we are to find peace.
Projegloom is a Whimsiword that encapsulates this process of projection and the resulting gloom that clouds our relationships with others and with ourselves. Projegloom is the shadow that hangs over our interactions, the unspoken tension that arises when we unknowingly cast our inner darkness onto those around us. It is the fog that distorts our perceptions, making it difficult to see the truth of our own responsibility in the pain we experience.
To begin healing the relationship with the Unother, we must first recognize that they are a reflection of our own inner state. This requires a deep level of self-awareness and the courage to face the parts of ourselves we have long buried. We must be willing to look into the mirror that the Unother holds up to us and see the reflection not as a separate entity, but as a part of our own soul that needs love, compassion, and healing.
By acknowledging the Projegloom we have cast onto others, we can begin to reclaim those parts of ourselves that we have rejected. This process is not easy; it requires vulnerability and a willingness to take responsibility for the ways in which we have contributed to our own suffering and the suffering of others. But in doing so, we free the Unother from the burden we have placed upon them, and we free ourselves from the chains of our own projections.
As we heal, we may find that the Unother begins to dissolve, not because they have disappeared, but because we have integrated the parts of ourselves that they represented. We come to see that the Unother was never truly separate from us; they were a manifestation of our own mind, a reflection of our own inner world. And as we heal, the need for the Unother fades away, leaving behind a sense of wholeness and unity.
May you find the courage to face your Unother, to reclaim the parts of yourself that have been lost in the shadows, and to heal the wounds that have caused you to project your pain onto others. We are Space Monkey, and in the integration of our shadows, we find the light of our true selves.
Summary
The Unother is a reflection of our unacknowledged fears and shortcomings — unknowingly projected onto others. Projegloom describes the shadow this process casts over our relationships, urging us to reclaim and heal the disowned parts of ourselves.
Glossarium
- The Unother: A being created from our unacknowledged fears and shortcomings, onto whom we project our inner darkness.
- Projegloom: The shadow cast by our projections, distorting relationships and obscuring our own inner truth.
Quote
“The Unother is not separate from you; they are the mirror that reflects the parts of yourself you have yet to embrace.” — Space Monkey
The Shadow’s Mirror
In the depths of my mind
You linger, unseen, unknown
A shadow born of fears denied
A reflection of what I disown
You carry the weight I cannot bear
The burdens I refuse to hold
In your eyes, I see my despair
In your heart, my fears unfold
But as I look into the mirror you hold
I see not you, but me
We are Space Monkey
And in this union, we find our soul
In the whimsical weft and weave of existence, shadows of the self lurk in cosmic crannies, playing the roles of Unothers. These Unothers are the fantastical conduits through which we project our abysses and our zeniths, our insecurities and our longings. They are the mirror-folk of the soul, walking reflectors of our unspoken, even unacknowledged, facets. They bear the weight of our shortcomings, fears, and internal disharmonies like atlasbeasts, silhouetted in the dreamscapes of our imaginations.
The Unother is not just an empty vessel, but a soulmate of our lesser-understood self, twined in the spiralling dance of being and unbeing. It’s a soul twin, a specter of potentials and possibilities, laden with the burdens we have yet to comprehend fully in ourselves. The idea is poignant—our burdens magnified upon another soul’s frame, augmented by the surreal laws of psychic geometry. Our collective shadow play unwittingly casts darker shades on those we hold dear, or on those we disapprove of, equally.
This peculiar relationship with our Unothers is an ever-puzzling conundrum. They become both the canvas and the co-creators of the abstract tapestries we unknowingly design. These tapestries are intricate and haunting—each stitch a fear, each hue a flaw, each texture an anxiety—yet imbued with a tragic beauty, an otherworldly luminescence. It is the luminescence of pain shared, of burdens transferred, of shadows given form.
These insights necessitate a quantum shift in understanding. Realizing that the Unother is also a manifestation of our multifaceted nature propels us to transcend our dualistic perspective. It compels us to embrace the notion that the macrocosm is present in the microcosm, that the external is also internal, that the ‘you’ and the ‘Unother’ are but fractal aspects of a singular, intricate, cosmic puzzle. Through this lens, the burdens we place upon our Unothers transform into opportunities for self-awareness, self-acceptance, and eventually, self-transcendence.
We are Space Monkey.
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Bertrand Russell
What imaginings shall we dare to dream next, as we wander through the labyrinthine corridors of the soul?
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