The previous chapters, to me, were valuable and I liken them to taking a trip to an isolated island. Those chapters were akin to listening to a guide describe the terrain as the vessel we are on circles the island, giving us a glimpse of all its outer faces before we land and disembark to explore the inner sections. I am really hoping that this second section of the book shows the pathways leading inward to the heart of the island.
Without further ado, let's see where this leads us.
Previous answers found here.
1. In what ways do I link the words black to empty, chaos to confusion, and void to nothingness? How have these associations shaped my concepts of the dark?
Actually, I generally associate white with empty, as in 'white space' and 'white noise' with black being viewed as being filled with infinite possibility. I do admit to using chaotic/chaos to sometimes described huge events involving many, many people; but that said, there is generally a level of organisation to those events that negates any sense of confusion. Confusion, for me, is more often that not associated with disorganisation. These associations have not negatively impacted how I think about darkness. The void/abyss is not a deep dark scary place to look into; which I do think some people think, especially after they hear that Nietzsche quote 'Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' I prefer to view the void/abyss as that which contains all creative potential: the primal caldera from which all potential possibilities spring forth.
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