Creatures of the Night

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Whenever I think of the ‘creatures of the night’, I tend to think of owls and bats.
Of course there are many more creatures who much prefer the cooler, more moist night time to go about their business over the hot, bright sunlit days... Yet to me the owls and bats in their different varieties are the true creatures of the night.

The creatures of the night ~ yes all of them ~ do all of the things that we, the daytime dwellers, do during the day. And for pretty much everything we do we rely for the most part on our eyes. We see, we experience, we do... It starts with seeing.
And the things we see are those things that have nice clear outlines, concise shapes and forms that can give us the information we need in order to decide what our next step is going to be ~ if and how we are going to take action on what we are seeing.

For us, used to accept the information our sight provides for us ‘on face value’, that which we can see is taken for what is there. For us humans specifically ~ that which we can see is all that is there.

But is it?
Or can we benefit from a different manner in which to perceive the world around us; an altered perspective that may give us the information we need in a new way?

The creatures of the night do not see as much different things, as that they see the same things we see during the day differently... And they may not use their sight as much as we do; perhaps they sense the world around them more than they ‘see’ it.

From a spiritual perspective the darkness of the night is not ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ ~ it is a space that is ‘unseen’ and therefore unknown. The darkness then signifies all the things that we cannot yet see or sense. Either because these things are there in energy only, or simply because we cannot yet grasp the concept that they represent.
This can be because we have learned that truth is found in the logical, sunlit world that we can see with our physical eyes, rather than have experienced the world similar to how the creatures of the night experience the world around them.

From a spiritual perspective it is not about being a creature of the night or a daytime dweller ~ it is about merging both perspectives into one whole image or our world...

Clarity comes when we hold that image up to the light. And when we learn how to let our own light shine upon the things around us ~ independent from whether it is daytime or nighttime ~ we are truly illuminated.
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