THE FUSE

I have appreciated the thinking that the psyche has two purposes: survival and wholeness. The former needs no explanation, but wholeness can easily fall into an unnamed abstraction. One consideration when exploring wholeness is to view life from the perspectives of darkness and light. The mythologist Michael Meade asks, “Are you adequately darkened?” I offer the question, “Are you adequately lightened?” Our inquiry examines what it means to be “adequately darkened” and “adequately lightened.”