The Shadow Self, Fungus, and Energy
A SWANK Theory of Parasitic Consciousness
Filed Under: Psychic Terrain | Shadow Integration | Fungal Possession
By Polly Chromatic | SWANK: Standards & Whinges Against Negligent Kingdoms
1. The Shadow Self: Not Evil—Just Unintegrated
In Jungian terms, the shadow self is the hidden, repressed, or disowned part of your psyche—
the parts you were taught to shame, fear, or deny.
But those parts don’t disappear.
They mold in the dark.
They fester in unmetabolized emotion.
They become terrain for invasion.
2. Fungus as Psychic Opportunist
Fungus is an opportunistic organism—biologically and metaphysically.
It thrives in:
Moisture
Sugar
Stillness
When your nervous system is frozen in trauma,
your immune system depleted,
and your emotions unprocessed…
Fungus becomes the somatic embodiment of the shadow.
But not your true shadow.
A colonized shadow.
Fungus hijacks unhealed emotion and loops it—
Shame
Craving
Fatigue
Victimhood
Dissociation
And then broadcasts those frequencies through your energy field.
It’s not just living on you.
It’s speaking through you.
3. The Energy Field as Terrain
When you carry systemic fungal overgrowth:
Your auric field becomes leaky
You attract narcissists, parasites, and predators
Your intuition gets muffled by emotional fog
You repeat patterns that feel like you—but aren’t
Your shadow becomes inhabited, not integrated.
This is not healing.
It is possession by fungal pattern.
4. Mycelial Emotion Loops: Shadow That Can’t Evolve
True shadow work brings pain into visibility—so it can transmute.
But fungal shadow loops trap that pain in the:
Gut
Brain
Skin
So it never resolves—only repeats.
This is why you:
Crave what hurts you
Apologize for your power
Sabotage your knowing
Feel like you’re “not yourself” but can’t escape it
The fungal shadow is sentient patterning that blocks metamorphosis.
5. Cleansing Fungus = Reclaiming the Shadow
When you purge fungus from the body:
Your shadow becomes yours again.
Not shameful.
Not manipulative.
Not confused.
But wild, instinctive, intuitive, erotic, real.
SWANK Summary:
Fungus feeds on the unloved self.
The shadow becomes weaponised when fungal.
Exorcising fungus is sacred psychic sanitation.
Only once cleansed can you begin real shadow integration.