Truth and meaning can be enemies—but they can also be partners. At their best, they function like a heartbeat: systolic and diastolic, contraction and release. One grounds us in reality; the other animates that reality with purpose. They are like a married couple on a dance floor. Sometimes truth leads, sometimes meaning does. Harmony doesn’t require sameness—only coordination. When the rhythm holds, movement feels alive rather than forced. Carl Jung called this process individuation : the integration of what is known with what is felt, of fact with value, of the conscious self with what lies beneath it. But like a shadow that doesn’t always move in perfect unison with the body, truth and meaning can fall out of sync. When they do, illusion begins to grow—quietly, like mold in a dark basement. Jung called this the shadow : not evil, but unacknowledged reality. Transcendence is not escape from the shadow, but its integration—where truth and meaning converge rather than compete. Diss...