I sometimes feel I am on a lone one woman crusade to wrestle the concepts of "light" and "dark" from their synonyms of "good" and "bad"... the new age movement in particular is notorious for invoking "love and light"to assist in any difficult situation.
It really had to stop, seriously.
If you are not familiar with Jung's theory of Shadow then it's time to give it a google and educate yourself. If you know it already then you have to admit it makes a lot of sense; especially if you are of the worldview that we are all One (don't get me started on that, I'll probably cover that in depth at a later date)...
The Dark is delicious! The Dark is sacred! If we pray to be elevated from the darkness then we are in deep denial of all that makes us human.
In fact it's worse than that - worse than denying our humanity I hear you ask? Yes it is. Because when we worship the light and deny the darkness then the darkness rises to be heard and met. All that is "dark" as in not right with the world (as opposed to what is glorious and velvety and powerful and transformative about the darkness) - it is fuelled by the worship of the light, not overcome.
It's totally time to relinquish our addiction to the Light and be a bit more "yin and yang"... balanced.
And I am starting this blog as a homage to the sacred darkness that is grief and all that she has to teach us. I hope it will be challenging... and ultimately helpful and healing (as I have found grief to be, personally).
And I swear my passionate allegiance to all that is sacred - both light and dark - and I will pursue with all the enthusiasm at my disposal (lots) to bring conscious grieving back into common practice - personally, in community and in society at large.
There is far to much going ungrieved in this world.
Let us keen together!
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