#intergration

Letter from James Meredith to the Registrar at the University of Mississippi, 15 May 1961

Collection JFK-161: Burke Marshall Personal PapersSeries: Assistant Attorney General FilesFile Unit: Ole Miss integration: James Meredith, 25 July 1959-25 January 1961 and undated 

recovery can be so beautiful and important. If another system expresses this joy and you feel threatened and uncomfortable with just hearing the words to the point of wanting to silence others' stories and recovery, you are only protecting yourself from addressing your own insecurities about those things, and even taking away newly discovered system's ability to understand and talk about these subjects in the community.

These are natural and important parts of systemhood. While you may not be completely prepared to talk about these topics in your own system, having these topics blacklisted and some sort of taboo is a failure on your own end to close the chatroom that is talking about it, or excuse yourself away. You have no right to force your discomfort onto other people.

A healthy system can talk about these topics and how the options can be good for the system, or not what the system needs. THATS good inner system communication. Which will lead to being confident and comfortable with these topics.

Self Hatred.

‎"The hero's journey always begins with the call to adventure, the refusal of which only deepens the shadow. In slaying the dragon, the hero is not merely conquering an external foe but is entering into a sacred combat with the darkest parts of the self. The cave you fear to enter is not just a place of danger, but of initiation. What you find there is not a monster to be destroyed, but a piece of your soul to be reclaimed."

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‎— Joseph Campbell_-The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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