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About — Working With Shadow

Working With Shadow is a quiet project.

It was created as a space for reflection rather than instruction, and for recognition rather than belief. The work explores how unseen patterns — in language, habit, memory, and perception — shape experience without announcing themselves.

Shadow here does not mean darkness or flaw. It refers to what operates outside attention. What is assumed rather than examined. What influences without force.

The project moves through elemental themes — earth, water, air, fire, and ether — not as symbolism to decode, but as lived states that people already recognise when they slow down enough to notice. The work does not aim to fix, awaken, or improve anyone. It offers structure and restraint, allowing meaning to arise without being pushed.

About the Author

Risteard O Corragain works independently.

This book was written outside institutions, programmes, and marketing frameworks. It was shaped through lived experience, long observation, and a refusal to over-explain what does not need explanation.

The language is intentionally simple. The imagery is deliberate. Nothing is included to persuade or perform. The work respects the reader’s capacity to think, reflect, and decide for themselves.

There is no system to join, no identity to adopt, and no outcome promised.

How the Work Is Shared

Working With Shadow is released primarily as a digital book, to avoid unnecessary material use and overproduction. A print-on-demand option is available for those who choose a physical copy, produced individually rather than in bulk.

The project is kept small by design.

Optional support is available via GoFundMe for those who wish to contribute beyond the book purchase, but access to the work is not conditional on additional payment.

Why It Exists

Because clarity does not need volume.
Because attention is not improved by force.
Because some work is meant to be returned to, not consumed.

Working with shadow is not about exposing everything.

It is about learning what no longer needs to hide once it is seen.