I’m noticing a heaviness and a fear that both lives inside of me and seems to saturate the atmosphere. It feels like deep fatigue. Grief and rage surface without warning. Headlines are proof that the world is dangerous. Connection feels fragile, as if trust could collapse in an instant.
Darkness has two faces:
Spiritual / Cosmic — this face is the spaciousness, the void, the silence in which light becomes visible and the womb out of which all form arises.
Human / Collective — this face is weighty and historical. It’s the accumulation of what we refuse to face. Systemic violence, silenced histories, suppressed desires — all pushed into the shadows and growing heavier in the dark. This is the darkness of projection and scapegoating, of “othering,” of what society cannot or will not hold in the light.
I quell my fear by choosing to believe that humanity is ready to face these shadows. One path is to feed the fear and sink deeper into polarity. The other is to enter polarity as a crucible, where light and dark can be integrated as a path to wholeness.
The loop of fear, darkness, and harm often plays out in these ways:
The Programming Loop — Fear rushes in, conditioning takes over, and darkness hijacks our energy. What begins as a real need for safety can quickly snap outward as harm.
Fear as the Conduit — Fear contracts the body and narrows choice, disguising attack or exclusion as protection.
Violence as the Exit Strategy — Violence discharges the unbearable weight of fear and creates a momentary sense of control — even as it generates more of the very harm it seeks to stop.
The path forward is not drawing a boundary against what we call darkness, but entering it as a crucible. Fear will always tempt us toward the loop of attack, exclusion, or escape. But if we can stay present in the charge, letting both light and dark speak without collapsing into either, the polarity begins to dissolve. Darkness no longer has to erupt as harm; it can become the ground where we forge wholeness, presence, and new ways of being together.
This is what we practice inside Dragon Academy — and it’s the focus of our upcoming 4-week online course, Awaken the Dragon. This series is an initiation into four foundations of this work: the Box of Self, Power Dynamics, Owning Desire, and Meeting Your Predator. Through embodied practice, relational play, and shadow work, you’ll train to recognize fear before it takes over, to meet darkness without feeding it, and to integrate polarity as a path to wholeness.
If you’ve been feeling the darkness too — in yourself, in your relationships, in the world — I invite you to join us.
