My Life in the Light: a poem in the voice of Carol Anne from Poltergeist, once grown

It’s interesting to think about the values we assign to light and dark. Is one better than the other? Are they both necessary and beautiful? Are they both scary at times?The movie Poltergeist must have made a big impression on me—I was a teen when it came out. Asked to think about the turn from light to dark for a winter solstice event I was attending, I immediately heard the voice of Carol Anne’s mother, pleading with her daughter to “run to the light.”Having been abducted by a demonic Poltergeist at the age of 12, what would Carol Anne be like as a grown-up? How would she feel about “the light”? Get full access to Scientific Animism at newsletter.scientificanimism.org/subscribe