for - sleep hygiene - 2 - darkness

advice - sleep hygiene - 2 - darkness - one hour before sleeping, turn lights down to lowest level possible

Firstly, sort of an allusion to Adam and Eve, since Eve is built of Adam, so what Adam has is inherited or learnt by Eve. Secondly, she is one of the first characters to accept their vices, and therefore be immune or unbelieving to the devil (Iago's whispers). She sees him not as a honest man.

Maybe he is right, in the sense that he is not a man who could scheme something like this. It is simply Othello's choice to follow suspicion that led him to this. It is impossible for someone to scheme it up.

The fact that Desdemona is sometimes represented as divinity, as a guardian angel, shows that the fact that Othello is rejecting her advocation shows he is falling into his devil, into his inner Iago -- he is losing touch with God, with righteousness (while ironically thinking he is doing the right thing by being civil)

He speaks as if he is demonic, possessed, as if he has dual souls living inside of him... maybe he does. And all Iago did was play with his unstable convictions until his demon shows.

He sees himself as impure, and prone to error, and wrong. This is where it all starts, inner darkness.

Iago has not elaborated or said much, it is Othello who is prying deeper and deeper into "knowing" what he should not, into peering into something that would disturb his peace. This connects to Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. It is then Othello's fault for looking for answers to his suspicions which he confirms with confirmation bias.

He acts as an echo, and an echo is simply just a reaffirmation, a suspicion being ingrained, a hallucination

Iago forced the drinks on him, and therefore he is the "devil" and yet, Iago has done nothing but let normal events carry out, because the devil is in Cassio himself, and in everyone. Does the wine signifying Jesus's blood mean anything for this?

That is the problem, the fact that nobody can acknowledge their inner darkness, that is why it comes out in the most unpredictable and manipulative ways (Iago)

Othello describes this chaos as Turks, as the foreign, as the other, as the out-group. This means he prizes his in-group due to their civility and restraint -- in other words their ability to maintain composure for the sake of pride. The rejection of the inner demon only creates more destruction (Inferior Function)

He will eventually turn on Cassio, so he will see his evils, but he not until the end will see Iago's evils, because perhaps Iago is a part of each, and pride is what covers them from accepting and admitting their inner evils.

Have the moor thank him for his own destruction -- because it is him who will destroy himself and simply the ignition of his motivations that drives him to do so.

"Our prosperity signifies that he is both sidling up to his characters in his grand puppet show and actually a integral part of them literally. He has the same motivations as each of the characters, only he is helping all of them achieve their most sinister goals

Simply considering, helpless to his inner suspicions that rule him (Iago) ... It is all just our inner paranoia that causes conflict -- aka. our inner Iago

Notice Iago doesn't actually do anything terrible. He is simply the whisper in each's ear that causes the storyline to unfold in whatever manner -- he is barely a presence. In this case, he is the inner devil (on the shoulder) of each of the characters.. no?

2:00 In the mids of darkness, death, war; humans still can see light, the good, the beauty (stoic philosophy)

Epictetus would say that there are two handle on a situation; you pick the one (see above). This also aligns to the notion that situations are what they are, it is about your reaction.

How do you look at things? Do you only look at the bad, the ugly? Or, do you see the good, the light?

25.00 The hero leaves the light into the darkness, at the threshold, and faces a creature of the unconscious self. (Belly of the whale)

Throughout the dark narrative, there is a slitter of light. They never give up.

54:30 Max utopian in his head, trust in random people

• see index zk on Apollonian and Dionysian theory (idealism, good or bad?)

57:00 inherently, people are good, but they get corrupted (good and evil)

57:44 “there is some light” (life can be good): see zk 9 section on light & darkness

03:40 look through world at a story, maybe not looking through the right story (maybe all you see is suffering, bad lens to view world with)

• see zk on being in darkness, seeing it in the wrong way

37:00 going to war with self

• see zk notes on self-discovery & finding meaning in darkness

the nightmare of the wall of darkness, self-deception

People are left to wander in spiritual darkness. Not sure what's supposed to come next.