“When I was young I was really quite scared of the dark. I think my parents taught me to be and I remember the deciding thing was, I turned around and said: I’m going to go to the woods at night and walk into the darkness and embrace it and if I die, I die. I remember doing that and... nothing happened. I suddenly thought: I now know fear of the dark is wrong. In fact, it’s comforting. So at that point in my life I embraced - literally - the darkness. I mean, not in a sense of evil. I’m on a lifelong mission to get rid of this equation, dark is evil and light is good. It’s all to do with discovering the point that we don’t need lights. Light - illumination - comes from within the darkness, not from electrical lighting. I think Christian-based society’s got that very wrong. They think that as soon as Britain’s lit up, it’ll be a safer place to live - if you can see it, you can capture it, contol it - and they’re absolutely wrong. It’s the other way around. If we plunged into the darkness everyone would be safe.”
-John Balance (Coil)
