In Contrast

Is There no Truth in Darkness

Opposing but complementary forces swirl around us. If there’s merit in the belief ‘as above so below,’ can there be a heaven without a hell?

To have a body without a shadow seems ludicrous. To have a waking life without dreams seems equally unfathomable. Almost every concept we hold has a dualistic, oppositional and foundationally necessary twin. When we don’t’ consider it, we get played by the truth of it in symbols. In our face, obscure, but clearly subliminally activated we are spun. Is base reality binary? Can there be unbounded freedom of the soul?

Both heroes and villains rise and fall. People are born and die. Night and day are spun together like taffy around a small ball known as Earth. Non-dualistic frameworks do exist, suggesting there is no distinction between self and the world. Maybe there is a big, unified consciousness, and there is one entity, God, or someone, who is considered a part of them, and in that moment science of reductionism was born.

Binary code written into the very nature we call physics suggests even reality is an illusion. Particle or wave. Yes or no. On or off.

I really don’t even know how to process it. Maybe processing it is the conundrum that…