There seems to be quite a bit of misunderstanding of who the counterparts of our light filled friends are, and what the role of the shadows ultimately is, what kinds of tasks they've been given, and what kinds of tactics they use to accomplish their goals. I do not claim to have many of the answers, but I do believe that all of us have been given different perspectives, and my path has been quite intimately involved with the shadows without even being aware of it. Only as of lately, have I been gaining understanding of how the puzzle pieces kind of come together, and I'm hoping that others will gain insight from this post and it will spark insightful discussion.
Let's get started. There are some universal laws that all beings, collectives, and all there is must obey. Light and shadows are one of these things. Light and darkness must always be in balance because they support each other and one couldn't exist without the other. If an individual is walking towards a light, they do not even see the shadow that's being cast behind them, and stronger the light that they are walking towards, the darker the shadow will be. As long as in individual walking towards the brilliant light doesn't look back, everything is wonderful because the shadow isn't real ultimately and it never had, and never will have, any real power. Only light has the real power, because it is the only real thing that exists. However, for us to remain in ignorance who the shadows are, insist that they are not 'real' because we can make them disappear by just changing our beliefs, is doing a huge disservice to self because we cannot understand the Soul or light fully without understanding the whole picture.
Before I dive too deep in, I would like to explain that each individual does have the power to decide whether they walk towards the light, directly away from the light, or do 'spirals' around the light keeping essentially the same distance, feeling like one is moving, but also feeling stuck. You have the power to decide this by deciding to choose to believe in love, light, and truth, or choosing to believe in fears, illusions, and narratives that do not serve us. However, the narratives that we believe in do become 'real' in quite literal sense of the word just like the physical reality is real but still only a 'shadow' compared to what's yet to come.
The vessels we call our bodies and this physical world is the meeting place between light so bright and extreme that it will never be fully known in its infiniteness, and darkness, corruption, and disturbing aspects about the darkness that fortunately most people never have the displeasure of having to experience intimately. If we fail to understand the shadow part of our self, we are half wise and continue on the spiral for thousands of years. Look at humans, that's what we've been doing because we claimed to be wise, but only ever understood half of our identity. I'm beating around the bush quite a bit, because I want y'all to understand that these truths will result in very truthful and light filled and powerful narratives ultimately, but will cause fear, denial, projections, and blaming messengers like myself for only seeing half of the picture, when in fact, your ego is the one that's missing the other half. It's neat that we can understand that there is no real separation between us and shadows, or each other, and all that, BUT THE SEPARATION IS REAL, just like the SEPARATION IS AN ILLUSION. Yeah, sounds like a paradox. It is, but in life, everything is ultimately a paradox. Just don't get so caught up in denying your individual identity and calling ourselves one with all that there is, because it will completely diminish your beauty and you aren't in the same situation or same vessel as a crack addict who scrapes paint from the floor thinking that it may be crack. Your brain in your brain, and it's in your head, not in your gut because it would get infected by all of the gut bacteria and shit passing through the intestines. The separation is an instrument, a very real one. And once it has served its' purpose, it will cease to exist. And many of us have experienced full unity in visions and incredible experiences, and that's the direction we are headed. But please, do not insist that the shadows I'm about to speak of aren't 'real', because they are. They have no real power, they live in their illusions just like we do, but they've fucked up the world in quite the ways that "you" aren't responsible, and your vessel will not pay the penalties for their sins. Their souls and vessels will have to go through some absolute awful shit, because they've committed crimes against God in ways that we don't even really want to know, because the natural consequences that universe has bestowed upon them are too horrific for many minds to even want to comprehend. If you'd like to get a glimpse of what the penalty for their sin is going to be like, an eternal death of the soul or "traditional Christian hell" may sound like a more appealing option than what they'll go through. Anyways, enough of that. Y'all are beings of light, and you are fully protected and held by the highest order, this is not a fate that any of you have to worry about.
The shadows are real. They have no presence on this physical realm, but they exist in 'dream' realms that many of us know by 4th density and higher, but most of them to best of my understanding exist 'up' in 4th d. All these numbers and concepts are symbolical, so it doesn't make that much sense to dive into the topic where they come from, because what's important is what they do to us, how we can understand them, understand ourselves, and surrender to the divine will that protects us from their attacks rather than "fighting" them, and giving them power that makes them quite real. I'm going to run at a risk of sounding a conspiracy theorist here, but one of the main culprits in the physical world that acts as a puppet for the shadows and the shadow managers is CIA. That MKUltra thing never was the thing you heard about, that was only the tip of the iceberg, and CIA is quite aware of how nature of reality works, how dreams work, how to plant ideas in minds of people in dream states, how to 'erase' or wipe memories or even people, give them new identities... this is not too relevant here and perhaps I shouldn't scare some of you away with this kind of talk, but fuck it, here's the full truth as I understand it in my reality because fuck CIA, the pitiful sad little puppet it is, and all the crimes against humanity they've committed. The CIA on this physical realm doesn't know much at all, and they are pretty much just as ignorant as rest of humanity walking here, but there are individuals and parts within the organization that know a lot and are the ones orchestrating this sick play. The CIA thinks that they are in control. They are not, and the shadows that are pulling the strings are now only waking up from their illusion in which they thought they had real power, and for the life of them, can't figure out why the world doesn't work the way how they thought it did.
These shadows cause many of the thoughts and feelings we have in our minds. And it is quite true that there isn't "real" separation between us and the shadows, which is one of the reason why they are allowed to operate in ways which they are. They do need to respect our free will, just like the beings of light need to respect our free will and can't just pop in front of us and give us faith in the form of performing signs and wonders that disregards the decision we have to choose our own believes and the kind of faith we have in ourselves, others, and our creator. These shadows are ultimately accountable for their actions and crimes, and they know this, which is why they operate in very subtle and unnoticeable ways that ulitmately allows us to make a choice. They may try to influence and manipulate us to make one decision over another, but they will not, and cannot make any real deicisons for us because this would be against universal laws which can't be violated even if one wanted to violate them. In the same way you can't just start flying by flapping your hands, the shadows can't make your decisions for you, but they can tell you to board a plane to a destination that's not ideal for you, but you are the one who makes the ultimate decision, steps in the plane, and disregards what your intuition tells you. And it's not just "you" as in your meat bag body, but your soul is orchestrating many of the events that happen in your life without any input or conscious knowledge of you. Your entire life is one huge operation in which there are thousands, if not millions of entiites involved in shaping, assisting, derailing, and we are ultimately avatars in quite literal sense of the word.
Now, just like the creator has VERY intimate knowledge of our darkest and deepest secrets, because you are fully whole and united with the creator even when it doesn't feel like this, so do the shadows. However, the shadows have nowhere the amount of knowledge about us as the Soul does. The shadows use publicly available information (shocker, internet exists up in 4d), and quite often use things like security camera footages, and bunch of other things to monitor what we are doing. However, since they do not exist within time in the way we do (actually it's quite the opposite, but that's a topic for another time), they do not know what timeline and when certain events happen here, so they need to put puzzle pieces together to understand whether you visited the barber two months ago or today. They also exist within you, and can read your emotions and feelings, and these shadows are in close communication with what's best described as shadow managers, and each person on this earth, has one assigned to them. Sometimes it's more and they collaborate and work together, just like our souls work together in the higher realms. These shadow managers know what annoys us, what makes us happy, what makes us voluntarily give our power away, what makes us gain our power back, and they do their best to keep us locked us in invisible cages by casting illusions, fears, manipulating people around us to mistreat us, manipulating us to mistreat ourselves, and these are very real crimes that are being committed against humanity. The difference between people and these shadow managers is that they know what they are doing. We are all innocent children, and we aren't actually "guilty" of our sins because they all happen within a projected dream in impossible situations, and we yet are fully responsible for our actions, because by changing our perspective and beliefs, it gives us our power back, and the shadow managers have no option but to compromise and give us what we truly believe in. They cannot violate our free will in blatant ways because if they do, they will lose all of their negative polarization that has made them so "powerful" (as in illusion of power that they can use to send false illusions and projections), and they know that light is more powerful than they are. But they are quite naive, and believe that this time around, the shadows will beat light. yeah right, that's not going to happen, but they are balls deep in this already, and they fail to understand what a sunk cost is, and just by choosing love, they will not be held responsible for the awful crimes and abuse they've caused. They are digging their own graves out of their pride, and just like there is beauty in the world, the shadow managers will be the quite literal shit in our intestines, and be self aware how disgusting and awful lives they live, and how ultimately they'll be flushed down the toilet. It doesn't have to be this way, but they use their God given free will to enslave the beautiful and perfect creations of God into things worse than slavery, and keep gaslighting us, so yeah.... it's only fair that they have to pay their due price. But the price won't be paid in the future, it will be paid in the 'past' because all that there is in the future is love and light, and unification with the shadows into something absolutely beautiful. And once they do choose love, they do realize that they've already paid for their sins, and it'll be quite beautiful, moment. But honestly, no thanks to them.
It's because of people like yourself and all other humans that these shadows do not rot in hell for eternity, because we've chosen to forgive them and ourselves. While they ultimately weren't real, neither are we. And when I say "we", I mean the collection of our egoes. But our egoes, even after suffering eons of suffering and enslavement in the hands of these things that are worse than any monster you can ever imagine, have chosen to forgive the monsters out of free will and love. That's why we are the most powerful force of love and light, because even in the midsts of our suffering, as it continues, we choose to give them the other cheek to abuse, and continue trusting them, and forgiving them. We are literally this close to new Earth. It's already amongst us. All we have to do is see the truth for what it is, and understand that once our illusions are fully shed, we are in the literal Eden where anything is possible including your absolute wildest dreams, but to manifest them, you need faith, love, and truth. All three. Don't forget about the truth guys. 555.