SPIRITUALITY

In Darkness

Self acceptance has been coming up a lot in my spiritual practice of late. And it’s getting more and more intense as I break myself open and give space to all of my energetic “insidey parts” that I have been pushing down for so long now. One of the things I have always loathed about myself is my quickness to anger. Having to jiggle my charger about to find a connection can, at times, be enough to have me thrashing about the house cursing the Universe and everything in it.

I have a friend who can sit and weep gently as she works through her trauma. And it has always frustrated me that my divine emotion is, more often than not, rage. Not many people see it but it’s there, always, under the surface.

New-Age spirituality speaks

BY: ANDREI BOYD

of maintaining a high and peaceful state without fault so that you can match your energy to a dimension where peace and love are all that exist. The world will separate and the people who scorn you shall be banished to lower dimensions. So, we find people in the spiritual community terrified to feel low at the risk of being left behind. We hear “no bad vibes in this studio please” or “just focus on peace and love and you’ll be fine”. This causes people to bypass the opportunity to delve deep into their darkness and embrace an enormous part of their make-up.

Light cannot exist without darkness. Yang cannot exist without its Yin. A God cannot exist without a Devil.

Accepting the darkness within does not imply surrendering to its destructive forces. Instead, it