Darkness: Emergence: Book Zero

by Richard Abbot

Though many people, understandably, wish to focus their attention on Love, Light and Happiness the truth is that Darkness is an ever-present part of life, characterised by the lack of Light, the lack of Truth and the inability to see. When we first encounter Darkness – individually or in society - we may react in one of four 1. We can dislike it, close our eyes, turn away and tell ourselves a happy story of redemption and protection. This is the most common reaction. But it is a prison. 2. We can dislike it and place our faith in a man-made rescue – faith, religion, politics, economics or technology. Of course all these man-made solutions eventually come crashing down. 3. We can look hard at the Darkness and connect into the blame game. Fuelled, at first by outrage but then by hate, we can loudly assert our own goodness and decry the others, those not like us, as Evil. 4. Or we can reflect on the failings of these three approaches and can try instead to look deeply and truthfully into the Darkness, to accept what we see and begin to tackle it. This is the purpose of the book.

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Published June 12, 2016