Fear of the dark

There are a great many things in life that do not make sense to me. Most of them have to do with a thing that I see in others that I do not see in myself. Fear due to being surrounded by a lack of light is one of those things.

I do not understand this. Nearly half of the world is covered with it at any one point in time. It's mentioned or shown just about everywhere in books, movies,television shows, and songs. Why are so many people afraid of the dark?

For most people, it seems that fear of the dark is really a fear of not knowing what is out there. Or in other words, when we can not see what is happening we invent or imagine things to fill in the gaps. We superimpose our thoughts onto reality, literally taking something that is inside our head and planting it firmly within the darkness. People that do this are using their imagination in an unhealthy deconstructive way.

It seems to me that positive rational thinking people, that deal honestly and logically with the world would not have any reason to imagine monsters of any sort in either the light or the dark. Maybe I am wrong, perhaps there is no connection.
But I am not afraid of the dark. Or of the things that go bump in the night. I prefer darkness. Here in Florida, due to the heat, nighttime is often the only time where being outside is even remotely bearable, especially in summer.

I enjoy sitting alone outside, after sunset, feeling the air around me begin to cool, surrounded in a cloak of darkness, silently listening to the cries of birds, the buzzing of insects and other animal sounds, watching people scurry along, hurrying to be indoors. The darkness is a welcome home and a familiar friend. For me, it is comforting, relaxing and peaceful in a way that day time can never be.

I have been alone in the dark, in enough different places throughout my life that if there were monsters hiding there, somewhere, I think I would have seen them. Darkness is the natural condition just about everywhere that the light of the sun is not currently shining. Yet we treat the darkness as unnatural. It is true that there are dangerous things in the darkness, but no more so than there are in the full light of day. If we do not fear the light we should not fear the dark, for one is simply a lack of the other.

My son who just turned three is not afraid of the dark either. In fact, late in the evening he will often turn the lights out so that we can play with his toys in the dark. Studies show that between two and six is often when this fear begins due to a drastic increase in the use of the imagination that occurs in this time frame. I will observe carefully to see if this happens with him, though I have a suspicion that it will not. It is not in my nature to be afraid in general and from what I have seen so far, I think it may not be in his either.

You ARE God pt1

Welcome Welcome. Come. Sit around the camp fire and be warmed by it's presence. What I want to talk about today may shock or offend you, especially if you are strongly attached to a Judeo-Christian religion. By the standards of their beliefs it could certainly be considered blasphemy. It is not my intent to cause unrest of any sort, but to open your eyes to a different possibility.

I am not a religious person. But, I am deeply spiritual. I do believe in good and evil and I believe that it is for each of us to decide what is good and what is not and to do our best to do good wherever possible. I do believe in a greater power than man. There are supernatural beings out there that outclass us by orders of magnitude. It just does not make any sense that they would care whether or not we worship them.

I mean think about it. Do you care when you wipe down a counter that had a bit of spilled liquid on it? No? Why not? You just wiped out  what was or could have become a tiny microcosm full of potentially many different kinds of micro-bacteria, single celled organisms and eventually maybe some mold. Perhaps there are things on an even smaller level that are so small that we  can not even perceive them, even with the enhancements that technology brings us. The thing is that such things are so far beneath our everyday notice that they never really even occur to us. We do not even think about them. I believe that is how these greater beings are in regard to us.

Does the sun care whether or not your plumbing works in your apartment, in New York? Does the Milky Way Galaxy care whether or not our sun exists? No, I don't think so. They are not living thinking beings you say? How do you know? Perhaps we are just so small and insignificant and different from what they are that there is no way of interfacing with them for communication purposes.

I do believe that there is a finite amount of energy in the universe, that energy can not be gained nor lost and is simply converted from one form to another, just as modern science tells us. But when I talk about energy, I am not talking about the physical forms of matter and energy or solids liquids and gases.  What I am referring to is love and not love. Confused? No worries I will explain.

There are two forms of energy that every living thinking being possesses.  You have an energy in you that keeps you alive and healthy, some call it chi or spirit. Others such as myself call it love. Love is a creative healing force. We use it to forge new bonds, to empower ourselves into getting what we want out of life and for all of the positive and "good" things that you can think of. Everything else is not love. It is destructive, dark and poisonous. It is anger, fear, jealousy, hate and prejudice. But what about neutrality? It is neither good nor evil right? Wrong. Neutrality generally means doing or deciding nothing, which simply leads to entropy, which leads to decay, a form of destruction. Hence even neutrality is an agent of darkness.

So there you have it, love and not love. Or white magick and black magick. Or as most people call it positive and negative energy. How do you know, other than by looking at your actions and choices, which form of energy there is more of in your body in general? When you are full of love your body will reap the benefits of your positive energy. You will generally feel as if you have more energy. You will be more open to new thoughts and ideas. You will be happier. What about when you are full of black magick? There will be more overall aches and pains, often chronic things that don't go away. Your body will be more prone to sickness and disease. You will often feel fatigued and you will be plagued by dark thoughts.

We are made of love. At birth it is all of what we are and all that we know. Unfortunately over time that changes. When we convert our love into darkness it begins to destroy us from within. We can easily see the signs of it within our minds and bodies. But how does it happen. And what can be done about it?

From an early age the seeds of mistrust and hate are placed.
And that's all the time I have for now. Join me later for part two.