Dear Living Dark reader,

My focus here has always been double, encompassing both creativity and the daemon muse on the one hand and nonduality and self-realization on the other, with a theme of cosmic dread or horror winding its way through. Today’s post is, on the surface, located wholly within the spiritual wing. But I think it also includes the others, even if only implicitly. I say this simply to set the tone.

I was reading a recent essay by the spiritual/nondual writer and teacher in her won...