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.
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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 by definition. Evil arrives when an action or thought is out of proportion or occurs at the wrong time or the wrong dosage.
The Talmud says that when the yetzer hara was “captured,” houses weren’t built and babies weren’t born. The important implication of this metaphor is that the evil urge isn’t actually evil but rather has the potential for evil. Ironically, the source of the potential for evil is the source of creativity."
All the talk about integrating the shadow as a force to accomplish something good - this came from 300 CE, long before Carl Jung.
More and more I'm asking, "Where do modern-day spiritual and self-help systems originate?" I ask this because modern-day knowledge only tells a small part of the story. For example (I may have mentioned this before), "As above, so below" and "As within, so without" come from the principle of correspondence, which is only 1 of 7 hermetic principles. Many like to say these phrases but don't know where they're from. Many probably just heard a newager say them at some point.
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