Duality

I was inspired to write this after reading the thread titled “Duality: its true meaning” by AngelBlade. I feel that this is an area that invites a lot of confusion. It has taken me many years to develop what feels to me like a good understanding. I have come to see the light and dark both as incredibly beautiful and powerful.

I think everyone here has a good concept of the light; but the dark side often still seems to be obscured, and even confused with, evil. For me the dark is raw unrefined passion, it growls and groans, rips and pounds, and ultimately provides life with incredible depth--like in a painting.

I believe that the problem began when we established the notion of good and evil. Everything dark became evil and everything light became good. I believe this was big mistake! The darkness (often associated with the feminine) is beautiful, deep, rich and wonderful---except when there is an absence of LOVE. Only when there is no LOVE does the darkness become evil.
For a long time I found the new age movement did not resonate with me because it seemed one sided (unbalanced). Rainbows, flowers, stars, fairies and dolphins abound (don’t get me wrong though…I love all these things), but where are the wonderful dark things that have so much to teach us?
In my own search within I found that I had buried certain aspects of myself, (which I was socialized to view negatively), deeply away in my self-conscious. An example of one of these dark (but certainly not evil) aspects (energy) that I came across on my quest for inner unity was the Divine Whore. This part is wild and fierce and loves to ****!! This part of me was stifled and repressed because I feared it. When I first made contact with this part it appeared to me as scary and depraved, but when I allowed myself to accept it and give love to it I found an incredible ally instead of an enemy. I eventually came to realise that so much unconscious energy was being spent repressing the aspects I perceived as ‘bad’. When I learned to embrace and love my darkness I began to feel myself approaching deep peace and inner UNITY.

Everything has its place.

We are all incredible divine beings that each contain ALL. In order to bloom we, like flowers, need to reach towards both the glorious light, and the fertile darkness.
People who decide they ‘choose’ the light are ultimately maintaining and upholding the duality. Please don’t be afraid of the dark…there are so many treasures to be found there!! And remember the antidote to evil is LOVE! Hey I just realised something when I wrote that: evil is just love written backwards with an I (representing separation) instead of an O (representing circle/unity).

True LOVE is light and dark, but cannot be evil.

LOVE C