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~Spiritual Implications As Shown By Television~

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This is sort of random thoughts but I thought this to be interesting so I'm sharing. As many may know by now, television and various shows and movies we view tell us certain spiritual truths yet their hidden in plain sight.

I could be wrong about this but for a while, I've been a fan of an anime called Seven Deadly Sins or Nanatsu No Taizai. One of the main reasons I enjoy it so much is because of the influences the author/writer, Nakaba Suzuki used in the making of it.

Various symbolisms within the show and the manga are very intriguing to me and I believe I happened to find one that could correlate to shadow work. If you don't know what that is, it's not a "New Age" practice but rather taking some time to be still, quiet, and think on the darker aspect of ourselves, the shadow, the part we suppress. Hence, "shadow work."

Anyway, there was a moment in the second season of the anime in which a central character, Meliodas, had to undergo certain training so he could receive the dark power he once had again.

If you're familiar with the franchise then you know that Meliodas is the leader of a group of powerful "warriors" or idk what to call them that each has one of the seven deadly sins (wrath, lust, greed, gluttony, slothfulness, pride, envy) assigned to them.

Meliodas is the sin of wrath and he was assigned this sin essentially because- well it's a long story, but, he completely decimated a kingdom with a great sum of his dark power that was taken from him as well as his wrath because he witnessed his reincarnated lover die once more in front of him (if you know, you know).

Nevertheless, once a new menace, the Ten Commandments appeared, he needed that power back. Yet, to make sure he would not go berserk again, he had to undergo training to control and face his emotions/wrath (that could stem from trauma).

Anyway, upon being taken through the trial, in which he had to revisit memories and strong negative emotions that could cause him to beserk, he eventually came to the point where he truly confronted the pain and in a way accepted it.

Not necessarily saying he (Meliodas) healed from anything but stepping away from the anime and into reality, we all have to face experiences in our lives that have caused us hurt, trauma, loss, and all kinds of negative emotions and things within ourselves in order to truly grow and flourish into the fullness of what you as a human and soul on this planet are supposed to become and learn/gain while here. (Also, notice how the place in which he was tested in is completely dark, possibly related to the whole shadow concept).

Not to mention, the place Meliodas and his crew at that point in the story visited was a place called "Istar." In the anime, it was the holy land of the druids but what I found interesting was how "Istar" is strikingly similar to "Ishtar" who is or was quite a significant goddess in various cultures around the world.

There is an ancient Sumerian story or legend called "The Descent of Ishtar" or Inanna in which the goddess descends into the seven gates of the underworld and by the time she reaches her sister who was the queen of the underworld, she is stripped naked and pretty much has lost her sense of self. Yet after having faced some adversity, she “resurrected” or rose out of the underworld a superior version of herself.

This analogy I believe is symbolic of coming into this world and the experiences we endure for our own separate personal purposes related to our own growth (which involves shadow work) but I don't know if that was on purpose by Nakaba or just me.

Lastly, once Meliodas is finished, he goes to receive his power from Zaneri’s (the one that gave Meliodas the test) older twin sister, Jenna. The name Jenna could be various things such as “white shadow/phantom,” “paradise,” “heaven,” “fair,” and so on. Which seems to be the opposite of what Meliodas just had to tackle within himself. 🤔

I apologize if this may seem random or if I’m reaching but it’s not written in stone, just random thoughts. Thanks for reading✨

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Isaiah 55:6

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"𝐎𝐡, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡 𝐈 𝐚𝐦, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐡, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝"

𝐈𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚.𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐞

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♡⋆꙳𝑥𝑜𝑥𝑜∞𝑠𝑢𝑧𝑦⋆꙳♡

꧁♥ “I ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴍʏ ʜᴀɪʀ, I ᴀᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʜɪs sᴋɪɴ, I ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ sᴏᴜʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʟɪᴠᴇs ᴡɪᴛʜɪɴ” ♥꧂

I Am Not My Hair, India Arie

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤, 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒… 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑦 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒

𝘈 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘈 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘢 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯

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𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑜ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑

"𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠" - 𝐶𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑎 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑜

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Turn me inside out, you make my heart speak.

One in a Million, Aaliyah, 1996.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵~

Things Are Gonna Change - Bryan Duncan

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"She's Erica, Erica, Erica (Erica Kane) Oh, back on the block she's at it again She'll be your friend as long as you spend I know she's torn whole families apart She'll shoot a poison arrow straight through your heart"

Erica Kane (Aaliyah, I Care 4 U)

𝐼’𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 🤔

(𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 “𝐼’𝑚 𝑆𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑌𝑜𝑢” 𝑏𝑦 𝐴𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑦𝑎ℎ, 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒)