The Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year, is the perfect time to look at light and darkness, quintessential pair of opposites. Jung’s statement: ‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious’ is extremely illuminating. The concept of the ‘body of light’, or augoeides, has been with us since antiquity, but how do we make ‘the darkness conscious’? And can the heart of darkness ever be fully revealed? These are deep questions to be pondered.
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