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These are thoughts that come and go around my own relationship with my own spirituality and what I perceive to be light and dark. I do not assume to know or understand anyone else’s relationship with their spirituality or religion. I’m basing my opinions purely on my personal experiences and understanding of the unknown. Thank you for reading!

Before you are born, you exist in and are part of the darkness. In scientific terms, this might be dark matter. While we aren’t certain, our deductive reasoning and scientific measurements suggest this could be true. It’s our best-educated guess. So, let’s assume it’s true. We are all dark matter before we become stardust. As dark matter, it might be like the stem cells of the soul—potential energy waiting to become something different. In that state, everything is one being, a collective.

In my perspective, I call the one being of darkness the Goddess. To me, she is the mother of all existence, holding potential energy in her womb. Then, there is an impetus of unimaginable energy that becomes everything in existence, which is of the light. In this respect, all matter and energy that exists and is tangible to us is of the light. Thus, in my view, the one being that exists as light is God. As human beings, our bodies are of both God and Goddess—encompassing everything and nothing (or possibilities). Each creature, even when separated by atoms and dark matter, is interconnected because we all exist as both light and dark.

Everything that we experience is of both Goddess (darkness/potential energy) and God (light/the energy that exists as well as all matter and elemental properties). Both light and dark swirl around us all the time.  The darkness holds the unknowing and infinite possibilities.  The light holds the known, the seen, the created, and the experienced. God and Goddess are not at odds with each other.  Their relationship can be seen and experienced as destructive as the light banishes the darkness and the darkness swallows the light.  It can also be that they are giving of themselves to each other to create all the colors of existence.  They engage in a cosmic dance of give and take, willingly sacrificing themselves to each other to hold a symbiotic and synergistic relationship that rings out infinitely. 

Referring to darkness or dark matter as the Goddess and all light and matter as God is my way of forming an emotional relationship with my environment. This perspective helps me understand it more deeply and interconnectedly. I believe all religions serve this function. All spiritual practices focus on emotional connection, or in scientific terms, emotional intelligence. I could write another article about how we, as humans worldwide, often dismiss emotions and value only rationality. But I’ll save that tangent for another day.

As babies growing in a mother’s womb, we exemplify the dance between light and dark. Our consciousness, as we understand it, is abstract and rooted in darkness, giving it access to infinite possibilities. In my analogy, your soul is primarily composed of darkness. By darkness, I don’t mean bad or evil, but rather the unknown, potential energy, and infinite possibilities, which, like light, have both good and bad properties.

When we are born, our consciousness emerges from this darkness, which, if it has any mindstate, is collective—like an all-accepting, nonjudgmental Borg. Our biology and senses, however, are of the light. We are born with innate instincts that help us navigate our environment and grow. For example, we have automatic responses like the suckle reflex to get nourishment from our mother.

As a baby, your consciousness remains in a “collective” mode, which developmental psychologists describe as egocentric. A collective is inherently egocentric because it is the only thing that exists as a whole. In this mode, it’s easy to forget that every cell in your body serves its own function and lives its own lifetime while being part of the whole.

Think of this as an analogy. So as an entire human body, imagine every cell has its own consciousness, and interacts with every nearby cell in much the same we interact with every human.  Just before it became its own cell, it came into existence because another cell split itself.  So just before it was born, it was also part of that collective. 

As we grow and interact with our environment (i.e. the light), our bodies and minds learn to create a relationship with everything within that environment.  We use our physiological senses (i.e. light – touch, taste, smell, sight, sound), and our abstract senses (i.e. dark – thoughts, emotions, mind states) to relate to and navigate our environments. As humans, we learn through what we so lovingly (I say that sarcastically) call failure. Maybe we should replace that word in our vernacular with learning instead. Then there doesn’t need to be unnecessary shame involved in it all the time, and we will be more likely to push through mistakes and grow instead. I will say that some shame is necessary, too much shame is debilitating.  Too much of anything is not a good thing. Not enough of some things is also not good.

I’m not sure how to end this musing of mine other than to say, Duality.

Please comment if you have any reactions or thoughts of your own. I love conversations around these things!

Thanks for reading… and entertaining my faith. 😉