Propelled by the feeling of Craving, Insatiability

We contain when we hold difficult experiences internally, either to suppress unwanted feelings or to turn against the self

"I can swallow this". Containment offers a way to pause the expression of affect and impulses; as simple as a babe closing their fist or holding their breath to resist screaming. The act of containing creates a temporary homeostasis without fully cutting off from others. This helpful primitive mechanism can evolve into the use of substances (from thumb sucking to cocktails) to serve the same regulatory function. When not joined with mechanisms of self expression, the contained person can force the redirection of negative emotions against the self.

As adults we Contain as a means to experience ourselves as Obedient, Generous

There is a consensus reality - where we perceive that which is agreed upon as reliable. In this shared reality, we generally see four “acceptable” combinations of defense mechanisms operating. Developed in early childhood, they continue to operate as a basic temperamental style throughout adulthood. Here we see Containing as it combines with its four common partners.
When Containing is combined with Detaching =
I behave as a Hedonist - containing my feelings while seeking to be Enthralling
When Containing is combined with Absorbing =
I behave as a Sycophant- containing my feelings while seeking to be Exalting
When Containing is combined with Discharging =
I behave as a Snob - containing my feelings while seeking to be Flawless
When Containing is combined with Recoiling =
I behave as a Recluse - containing my feelings while seeking to be Galvanized

Enthralling Hedonist

Containing my feelings while seeking to appear Awake

Exalting Sycophant

Containing my feelings while seeking to appear Loved

Flawless Snob

Containing my feelings while seeking to appear Hopeful

Galvanized Recluse

Containing my feelings while seeking to appear Confident

Dark wave energies are experienced outside the accepted norms of reality, usually occurring in the form of a persistent Doppelganger, a nemesis to our accepted sense of selfhood.
As our attachment to the rotating Defense Structures within us dissolves, attention turns to disembodied dark waves that we find alive in our environment. There are 18 available to the witnessing eye. As we gain a more direct relationship to these Dark Wave entities, we place ourselves at the Gates of Dawn.

Meet the Junkie within

Do you find yourself disturbed by the appearance of addicts in your world? Might you recognize in their appearance, a doppelgänger to your own unresolved actualization of Divine Sobriety?

A state of Suppression to one’s own Anxieties blinds one from any capacity for Composure and creates the Dark Wave entity witnessed in

Wendigo

(the Algonquian spirit of insatiable, primitive greed)

Open to the sensations of this self punishing instinct corrupted from within by greed.

This state of reality-blockade can best be soothed by giving attention to Divine Sobriety.

Meet the Anankastic within.

Do you find yourself disturbed by the appearance of OCD in your world? Might you recognize in its appearance, a doppelgänger to your own unresolved actualization of Divine Serenity?

A state of Suppression to one’s own Indignity blinds one from any capacity for Passion and creates the Dark Wave entity witnessed in

Humbaba

(the Sumerian guardian who embodies rigid defense)

Open to the sensations of this self hating part of you suffering to invert or undo your feelings.

This state of reality-blockade can best be soothed by giving attention to Divine Serenity

Both the Wendigo (Junkie) and Humbaba (Anankastic) suffer the unmet need for

Sober Serenity

First and foremost, set aside the impulse to deny your feelings of Anxiety and Indignity.

In the pause of that quiet moment,

turn there to the presence of these two Pipers at the Gates of Dawn

designed by True Self to usher forth Divine Sobriety and Divine Serenity.

Actualizing the Great Beaver of Divine Sobriety
and the Great Dolphin of Divine Serenity
offers Sober Serenity
to the dark wave energies of the Wendigo and the Humbaba.
Focus on the call of these Pipers in you.
They point you toward non-dominant aspects of your True Self.
What would you be willing to learn and actualize from your own Divine Sobriety and Serenity?