[bobiny]

I think, it implies that following an ideal (light) is futile, only seeing what is (darkness) works.

The most popular religion in the world is based on fall from grace, original sin that we must attone for to become pure again. Alternative is that there is no going back and no perfect world or state of mind ahead, only the reality, which is sometimes dirty and messy and for many of us hard to see clearly.

[undershirt]

I don’t think so. Jordan Peterson is heavily influenced by Jung, and he said something that might be closer to Jung’s point:

> In some sense, I believed in the devil before I believed in God.

To unpack that a bit, he said suffering is the most real thing there is, and was obsessed with understanding how the unprecedented evil of the 20th century happened. That led him to reason that if evil like that can exist, its opposite might also exist, and has been finding his way to God ever since.