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May 27, 2008
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Notes On Human Nature
There are four sides to the nature of people:
-The bright, laughing, joyous side, the side we have been taught in our culture to honor and seek to show the world; the side that is at peace and is not fulfilled.
-The quester; the one that seeks to change what is immediately perceived as limiting. This side of people's nature is concerned with what is on the outside. It is the side that seeks to imprint one's very existence on both other people and our environment (it seeks the relevance of immortality), and it is not fulfilled.
-The third side is all mixed up with learning and patterns, understanding, creativity, and curiosity. it is a very brave side, but is not fulfilled.
-The dark side? The hidden one? In our culture, because of Mulengro (equivilant of the Devil), we are taught this side is wrong and should be suppressed, destroyed, that it is evil and dangerous. We are taught to seek to fulfill the other three (to be nice!) and to deny the fourth, and, as a consequence, it becomes a dragon within itself! All our pain, both physical and emotional, all our dead ends, our unresolved angers and resentments, all our futilities pour down the tunnel of the psyche to the individual underworlds of each of us - and stay there! The person who has not been touched by hurt is not lucky, they are defenseless or they are lying.
- Taken from "Witchcraft Theory and Practice" by Ly De Angeles
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