do you know how many times you live in dark
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We are truly living in dark times. More accurately, we are living in times where the darkness is emerging from hiding in the shadows and is becoming visible. It is easy and very seductive to become overwhelmed with pessimism, despair and depression during these times of darkness, which would sadly be to unwittingly feed and collude with the darkness. And yet, to quote a popular saying on the French left, “the hour calls for optimism; we’ll save pessimism for better times.”
Since the recent election, there has been a powerful awakening—politically, spiritually and creatively—in so many people that might not have happened if the results had been different. It is a primordial idea—expressed in Alchemy, Gnosticism and Kabbalah—that hidden in darkness is a light that, to speak in anthropomorphic terms, is waiting to be redeemed. In other words, encoded in one of the opposites is the seed of the other.
Jung writes, “The great problem of our time