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Today's episode reveals Jung’s prophecy of the necessary withdrawal—that as you individuate and integrate your shadow, the collective’s projections, performances, and unconscious demands become intolerable, pulling you into solitude not as escape but as evolution, where disappearance becomes the doorway to authentic return.
TRANSCRIPT
There's a mass exodus happening that
nobody's talking about. The most
conscious, awake, and psychologically
developed people are quietly withdrawing
from society.
Not angrily, not dramatically. They're
just disappearing, going off-rid,
leaving social media, abandoning
careers, ending relationships, choosing
solitude over society. Carl Jung
predicted this. He called it the
necessary withdrawal. When someone
becomes so psychologically conscious
that participating in collective
unconsciousness becomes physically
painful, not metaphorically painful,
actually
somatically
psychologically painful.
I'm about to explain why Jung believed
this disappearance isn't just inevitable
for awakening people. It's essential.
Why? The more conscious you become, the
less you can tolerate normal society.
And why this isn't spiritual bypassing
or escapism. It's the psyches survival
mechanism when surrounded by mass
unconsciousness.
If you've been feeling the pull to
withdraw, to disappear, to leave it all
behind, Jung would say you're not
antisocial. You're becoming too
conscious for the collective container.
Here's what Jung understood that
explains everything. Society runs on
collective unconsciousness.
Shared delusions, mass projections,
agreed upon shadows. These aren't bugs
in the system. They are the system. And
it only works if everyone participates
unconsciously. The moment someone wakes
up, really wakes up, not just
intellectually but psychologically,
they become a glitch in the matrix. They
can see the projections everyone else is
living. They recognize the shadows
everyone's avoiding. They understand the
games everyone's playing unconsciously.
And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Jung experienced this personally. As his
consciousness expanded, he found normal
social interaction increasingly
unbearable. Not because he was arrogant,
but because he was awake in a room full
of people talking in their sleep. Every
conversation required him to pretend he
didn't see what he saw, didn't know what
he knew, didn't understand what was
really happening beneath the surface.
This is the curse of consciousness.
You become psychologically alone even
when physically surrounded. You're
speaking a different language, seeing
different dimensions,
operating from a different reality.
And the effort required to bridge that
gap to constantly translate between your
consciousness and collective
unconsciousness
becomes exhausting. So the awakened
start disappearing not because they hate
society but because staying in it
requires them to betray their
consciousness. Every day demands they
pretend to be asleep. Every interaction
requires they dim their light. Every
relationship asks them to be less than
they've become. And eventually the
psyche says enough. Withdraw. Preserve
your consciousness.
Stop letting the collective unconscious
drain what you've worked so hard to
develop. Jung discovered that as you
integrate your personal shadow, the
collective shadow becomes unbearable to
witness. You're watching an entire
society projecting its darkness while
denying it exists. When you've faced
your own capacity for evil, watching
others project theirs onto scapegoats
becomes agonizing. When you've
integrated your own darkness, seeing
society's shadow projections, the other
political party is evil. That group is
the problem. Those people are what's
wrong. Feels like watching a mass
psychosis
because that's exactly what it is. Jung
called this the burden of seeing. The
awakened person sees that most social
conflicts are just shadow projections.
Wars are collective shadows clashing.
Political divisions are mass
projections.
Social media's outrage is collective
shadow material seeking targets. Once
you see this, participating becomes
impossible. You can't join the mob when
you see it's hunting its own shadow. You
can't pick sides when you understand
both sides are projecting. You can't
engage in collective blame when you
recognize it as collective
unconsciousness.
So you withdraw not from superiority but
from psychological necessity. One of
Jung's students described it perfectly.
I used to have strong political
opinions. Then I integrated my shadow
and saw that my opinions were just
projections.
Now when I see political debates, I see
two groups of people violently
projecting their unconscious material at
each other while calling it justice or
truth. I can't participate anymore. It
would be like joining a mass delusion.
But here's what's really happening. The
awakened aren't just seeing the
collective shadow, they're feeling it.
When you become conscious, you become
energetically sensitive. Being around
unconscious shadow projection feels like
psychological violence. It's not
judgment. It's genuine energetic
incompatibility.
Jung noticed this in his own life. After
his individuation, being in crowds
became almost unbearable.
Not because he disliked people, but
because he could feel the unconscious
material swirling, the projections,
repressions, shadows, all creating a
psychological storm that only he seemed
aware of. This is why awakened people
disappear from social media first. It's
a 24/7 shadow projection machine. Every
scroll is an assault of unconscious
material. Every comment section is a
shadow boxing ring. For someone who's
integrated their shadow, it's like being
forced to watch people punch themselves
while blaming others for the bruises.
Young's second insight. Once you've
individuated toward your authentic self,
performing your persona becomes
impossible, and society demands nothing
but persona performance. Before
awakening, you could play the social
games unconsciously.
Smile when expected. Say the right
things. Perform your role. But once
you've touched your authentic self, that
deeper truth beyond all masks. Going
back to persona performance feels like
psychological death. Every social
situation demands performance. the
workplace persona, the family role, the
social media identity, the acceptable
opinions, the appropriate emotions. For
someone still identified with their
persona, this feels normal. For someone
who's found their self, it feels like
suffocation. Jung discovered this
through personal experience. After his
confrontation with the unconscious, he
couldn't perform the proper Swiss
psychiatrist anymore. He couldn't
pretend to agree with collective
opinions he saw through. He couldn't
maintain relationships that required him
to be false. So, he withdrew to
Bowlingen, his tower by the lake, where
he could be authentically himself. This
isn't antisocial. It's pro-authentic.
The awakened person isn't rejecting
society from anger, but from
incompatibility.
They've become too real for environments
that require fakeness, too authentic for
spaces that demand performance,
too whole for containers that only
accept fragments.
One of Jung's patients, a successful
executive who'd undergone individuation,
described the impossibility.
I sit in board meetings and everyone's
performing their executive roles, saying
what executives should say, thinking
what executives should think. I can't do
it anymore. It's like being asked to
pretend I'm someone I've never been. My
authentic self has no voice in that
room. Only my persona did, and it's
dead. She didn't dramatically quit. She
quietly disappeared, transitioning out
over months, moving to a small town
where she could be real rather than
successful. Not from failure, but from
the success of finding herself. This is
happening everywhere. The awakened are
leaving careers that require persona
performance. Ending relationships based
on false selves, abandoning social
circles that demand masks. They're not
failing at society. They're succeeding
at authenticity.
And that success makes societal
participation impossible. Here's what
Jung understood energetically.
Maintaining consciousness in an
unconscious environment requires
tremendous psychological energy and
awakened people are realizing it's not
sustainable.
Think about what the conscious person
has to do in normal society. Constantly
filter out unconscious projections.
Maintain boundaries against energy
vampires.
Translate between depth and surface.
hold their frequency while surrounded by
static process not just their own
material but the unconscious material
everyone else is leaking. Jung called
this psychological labor. The invisible
work conscious people do just to exist
in unconscious spaces. It's exhausting.
Every interaction requires you to not
react to projections, not absorb others
unconscious material, not get pulled
into collective dramas, not match the
unconscious frequency around you, not
betray your truth to maintain harmony.
For unconscious people, this isn't work.
They're flowing with the collective
current. For conscious people, it's like
swimming upstream in a tsunami of
unconsciousness.
Eventually, you have to get out of the
water or drown. Jung noticed that his
most conscious patients would develop
chronic fatigue, mysterious illnesses,
depression, not from personal pathology,
but from the exhaustion of maintaining
consciousness in unconscious
environments.
The cure wasn't therapy. It was
withdrawal from the environments
draining them. One woman, a teacher
who'd awakened through years of inner
work, developed severe chronic fatigue.
Medical tests showed nothing wrong.
Through analysis with Jung, she realized
she was expending massive energy
maintaining her consciousness while
surrounded by unconscious colleagues and
students all day. She wasn't sick. She
was energetically depleted when she left
teaching and moved to a cabin in nature.
Her energy returned within weeks, not
from rest, but from no longer having to
maintain consciousness against the
constant pressure of collective
unconsciousness.
This is why awakened people disappear to
nature, to solitude, to small conscious
communities, not to escape
responsibility, but to preserve the
consciousness they have worked so hard
to develop. They understand that
consciousness is precious and finite,
and spending it on unconscious
interactions is like pouring water into
sand. The Jung identified this
withdrawal as archetypal, the hermit
phase that every individuating person
must enter, not permanently, but
necessarily. The psyche requires
solitude to integrate what society would
fragment. The hermit archetype isn't
about misanthropy.
It's about psychological necessity.
When you're transforming at a
fundamental level, you need space from
influences that would pull you back to
old patterns. You need silence to hear
your inner voice. You need solitude to
integrate without interference.
Jung himself went through profound
hermit phases. His years at Bowlingan
weren't vacation. They were
psychological necessity. He needed
distance from collective consciousness
to develop individual consciousness.
He needed separation from others
projections to understand his own
depths. This is what's happening to
awakening people now. They're not
disappearing because they're weak or
antisocial.
They're following an archetypal pattern
that individuation requires. The hermit
phase is when the shadow integrates
without social pressure to repress it.
The self emerges without persona
demands. Inner wisdom develops without
outer noise. Psychological
transformation completes without
interruption. But here's what Jung
emphasized. The hermit phase isn't
escape. It's preparation. The awakened
person withdraws not to abandon society,
but to develop something society needs.
They're gestating wisdom, integrating
truth, becoming what Jung called
aquarium fish. Beings who've adapted to
depths others can't reach. One of Jung's
Analyands, a philosopher, disappeared
from academic life for 3 years. Everyone
thought he'd had a breakdown. He'd had a
breakthrough. In solitude, he integrated
insights that would have been impossible
while maintaining his academic persona.
When he returned, he brought
revolutionary ideas, but they could only
emerge in withdrawal from the very
system they would eventually transform.
The hermit phase looks like
disappearance, but it's actually
deepening. The awakened person isn't
running away. They're going deeper than
society allows. They're doing the work
that can only be done in solitude,
developing the consciousness that might
eventually help the collective, but only
after it's fully formed. Yung's final
insight offers hope. The disappeared
don't stay gone forever. But when they
return, they return differently. Not to
participate in unconsciousness, but to
offer consciousness to those ready to
receive it. The awakened who disappear
following the hero's journey,
withdrawal, transformation, return with
gifts. But the return isn't to normal
society. It's to the margins, the edges,
the spaces where consciousness can exist
without compromise.
They become what Jung called border
dwellers, present but not participating,
available but not absorbed.
They might return as artists creating
from authentic depths. Healers working
with individuals ready to awaken.
teachers sharing with small groups of
seekers, writers offering maps for other
disappearing souls, guides for those
beginning their withdrawal.
But they never return to the mainstream.
They can't. Once you've individuated,
you can't de-individuate.
Once you become conscious, you can't
pretend unconsciousness.
Once you found yourself, you can't live
from persona. Jung observed this pattern
repeatedly. His patients who fully
individuated rarely returned to their
previous lives. They created new ones,
simpler, quieter, more authentic. They
found ways to contribute without
sacrificing consciousness. They learned
to give without being consumed. One
patient, a therapist who disappeared for
2 years, returned not to traditional
practice, but to working with a small
group of individuals going through
spiritual emergency. She couldn't do
general therapy anymore, only work with
those experiencing what she'd
experienced. Her practice was tiny but
profound. She was invisible to
mainstream society, but a lifeline to
those awakening. This is the model.
Awakened people disappearing from mass
society but reappearing in conscious
pockets.
Creating parallel structures, building
alternatives,
offering depth to those seeking it while
remaining invisible to those who aren't.
Jung believed this was evolution in
action. Not everyone awakens
simultaneously.
The pioneers disappear first, create new
spaces, then become beacons for the next
wave. What looks like abandonment is
actually architecture. Building the
structures that will support collective
awakening when it's ready. Let me
synthesize Yung's complete picture of
why spiritually awake people are
disappearing.
They can no longer tolerate the
collective shadow that unconscious
society projects. Their authentic self
can't perform the persona that society
demands. The energy required to maintain
consciousness in unconscious spaces
becomes unsustainable. They enter the
necessary hermit phase that
individuation requires. They eventually
return, but only to conscious edges, not
unconscious centers. This disappearance
isn't failure. It's evolution. Not
weakness, but wisdom. Not abandonment,
but archetypal necessity.
The awakened are following a pattern as
old as consciousness itself. Withdraw,
transform, return, transformed. Society
experiences this as loss, abandonment,
even betrayal. Where did all the
conscious people go? Why are the wisest
voices getting quieter? Why are the
awakened abandoning the collective when
it needs the most? But Jung would say
they're not abandoning the collective.
They're preparing something for it. In
their withdrawal, they're developing
what collective consciousness isn't
ready for yet. In their disappearance,
they're creating spaces for others to
disappear to. In their silence, they're
gestating words the collective can't yet
hear. If you're feeling the pull to
disappear, Jung would want you to know
this isn't spiritual bypassing or
escapism. It's psychological necessity.
Your consciousness has developed to a
point where participating in collective
unconsciousness is no longer possible
without betraying yourself. The
withdrawal you're feeling isn't
antisocial. It's archetypal. You're not
abandoning society. You're following the
hermit's path that every individuating
person must walk. You're not weak for
being unable to tolerate
unconsciousness.
You're conscious and consciousness
requires different conditions than
sleep. Let yourself disappear, not
forever, but for now. Find your bowling
inan whether it's physical solitude or
psychological distance. Stop expending
your consciousness on unconscious
interactions.
Stop performing for audiences that can't
see you. Stop translating your depth
into surface terms.
Your disappearance isn't selfish. It's
necessary.
The collective needs people who've fully
individuated more than it needs people
who partially participate. It needs
depth more than surface, authenticity
more than performance, consciousness
more than conformity. And when you
return, if you return, you'll return
with gifts that could only be developed
in disappearance. You'll offer what
couldn't be offered while maintaining
false belonging. You'll speak truths
that couldn't be spoken while performing
acceptance. The spiritually awake are
disappearing because that's what
awakening requires. Not permanently, but
necessarily.
Not from hatred, but from love. Love of
truth, consciousness, authenticity.
Love that says, "I must become whole,
even if that means being alone." Jung
would say, "Disappear consciously.
Withdraw with purpose. Use your hermit
phase for integration, not isolation.
And remember, your disappearance is
preparing something. You're not leaving
the collective. You're pioneering where
it will eventually need to go. If you're
disappearing or feeling the pull to
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Watch the video on your screen now about
the hermit archetype and how to use
withdrawal for transformation, not
escape. Remember, your disappearance
isn't abandonment. It's evolution and
the collective needs evolved individuals
more than it needs conforming
participants.
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