Intend to Transcend the Old Paradigm of Darkness

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We are in the age of awakening.  Living at this time in history, we as a collective are realizing that what has gone on for thousands of years is no longer acceptable to our awake hearts.  Most of us are longing and striving to be treated better.  In dominant languages, there is often a re-occurring theme that darkness is "bad", down to our unintentional words.  Many theorize this is based in a primal fear of being eaten in the woods at night by a wolf,  for example, or similar intuitional urge.  Some people fear the dark, whether or not they realize it, and whether or not they can admit it.  While maintaining and refining intuition is important for our protection, there are ways in which the historical application of the word "dark" has ceased to be supportive of our courage and our collective acceptance of each other. In exercising Unified Light, we intend to avoid using the word "dark" as a negative.  So, "corrupt forces" has replaced "darkness" and phrases like "black-balling" and "black listing" have become archaic.  Dark comedy's meaning has remained the same, as it represents transformation.  Someone is going into the painful, less seemingly lovely parts of life or the mind, and bringing in laughter, or transforming grief.  This is just one example of the healing power of transmutation.

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In Unified Light, the word dark is spoken mostly when it means rich, full, nurturing, transformational, or having depth. The negative use of the word, regardless of the thousands of years when it's been interpreted like this, effects the way we see each other, and even the way animals are adopted.  Black cats weren't adopted with the same frequency before the success of the movie, Black Panther. Challenge yourself to transcend the old paradigm...try to avoid saying someone has darkness in them as a negative, or phrases such as having dark or black clouds...and instead go into darkness- not into scary, sun hidden corruption and evil...but into the deep, rich, nurturing womb of beautiful blackness. This is about the natural progression of Light. Yang at its extreme, turns into Yin. Yin at its extreme, transforms into Yang. There is Yin within Yang, and Yang within Yin, and there is a seam between them. This is not a stagnant dualistic paradigm. It is a moving, transitional, ever co-existing model. Equally important and equally needed for balance, Yin and Yang are inseparable. They are one.​