The usual first reaction upon seeing one’s personal evil is to feel tremendous guilt and shame, and to identify with the shadow, feeling as though one had just been exposed as evil incarnate. This is a false idea, as useless as medieval beliefs about demons causing disease. Personal darkness is a type of illness or injury, caused primarily by accidentally cruel programming during childhood, and it should be treated as such. Everyone has a dark nature; it’s a condition of life in our world, not a “sin.” The goal of the practitioner must be to heal the illness and bring the injured area back
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