A View of Darkness

light¹ [lahyt] noun, adjective, -er, -est, verb, light⋅ed or lit, light⋅ing.
–noun

1.

something that makes things visible or affords illumination.

5.

the radiance or illumination from a particular source.

18.

spiritual illumination or awareness; enlightenment.

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illumination [i-loo-muh-ney-shuhn]
–noun

1.

an act or instance of illuminating.

2.

the fact or condition of being illuminated.

5.

intellectual or spiritual enlightenment.

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Oh, the hubris of those beings trapped within the narrow sliver-window of the vast, omnipresent electromagnetic spectrum known as visible light. Though we only perceive this barest of fractions, we are captivated and dominated by it. Not only does this small window effect the way we describe physical reality, but we color our languages (pardon the pun), and ideologies with the same blinded focus.

Light and Darkness are an illusion, crafted by our own minds in their fevered, isolated interpretations. That which we fail to perceive is unknown, therefore, the darkness hides uncertainty and fear. But, while darkness is a certainty to us, it is not so to the cosmos. Within the dark ranges of our limited perception, fierce blue stars show their true, blazing glory, black holes sparkle with flares of x-ray radiation as matter falling into them is compressed into energy, and permeating the emptiness is the chatter of stellar objects, saturating the range labeled Radio-Frequency.

In this way, light and dark begin to have far more localized meanings. The intellectual and spiritual connotations becoming confused as the implication of vast information in the darkness becomes prevalent.

Is this revelation counter-intuitive? Do we look to the light because it is all we can see? Does spiritual and intellectual growth mean shielding our eyes from all but the sparse offerings of 380 to 750 nanometers? Eastern thought seems to suggest the contrary.

The dragon of Chinese lore is a symbol of celestial divinity, thought to manifest physically while retaining its divine nature. The individual scales of these beings are said to possess the essence of either Yin (negative, slow, soft, cold, tranquil) or Yang (positive, fast, hard, hot, aggressive). And the nature of each dragon is a product of this balance. Light and darkness, from the view of eastern philosophers, do not oppose each other, rather, they complete one another, providing the full circle of existance.
Do not fear the night, for there is more to learn in the darkness that we children of the light could hope to fathom.

– Aldritek Arkadius