Who's Who and the Importance of Origins
Kim Gougen's material is fun to read, but then there's this: The "Story" of Kim Goguen - and Ben Fullford, Too? - American State Assembly Shucks I don't know, lol! It's good to try to figure out who's who though, because they can't all be right. ------- I've discovered that modern-day talk about shadow work has its origins from long ago. In the 3rd century CE, the two forces were written about in rabbinic texts. Here's a summary of this from Kabbalah for Dummies by Arthur Kurzweil: "The Kabbalistic view of life includes the belief that the human soul contains two urges in eternal conflict: The yetzer hatov (yay-tzer hah-toev), which is the inclination for good, and the yetzer hara (yay-tzer hah-rah), which is the inclination for evil. The good urges of humankind are the pure emotions, the holy impulses to do good. Evil urges have a different nature in that they can always be transformed into good. For the Kabbalist, nothing is evil b...