For me it begins and ends with the shadow, all the brilliant and displaced aspects of our nature. For a long time I had no idea what that word meant. Like many others I associated the shadow with the dark. I latched onto ideas of violence, suffering, death and in a very narrow way I associated the shadow with biblical notions of archetypal evil. The restrictive notions of Abrahamic religiosity forced me into a world of high contrast where everything I experienced was caste in black and white, but the world is a much more complicated place.