heh, interesting, but garbage. You could find more philosophy and truth on the ingredients list for a can of baked beans - there'd be more useful information there, too!

Let me throw this spanner into the works and see how many sparks ignite rational thought,

If you have to stop thinking to see the darkness, or close your eyes to see the darkness, or die - of all things - to see the darkness, then you aren't darkness at all!
You see darkness when you close your eyes because there is no light for your eyes to make an image out of, not because you are seeing into the inner-most depths of your true self. It's a mechanical function, not spiritual!

Secondly, all that makes us, us, is our thoughts, feelings and beliefs! Without them, we are little more then organic mechanical machinery with no use. To stop thinking is to delude and remove a part of your conscious self, and once again, the "mental darkness" resulting is because there is nothing to consciously fill the void you have created, not because it reveals some higher part of you!

As said, You create the light. To remove that, is removing the one thing you have created, removing the single manifestation of your conscious being.

You come from darkness, and you go to darkness. Everything in between is you. The light that fills the void is the you that your soul, and the rest of the world has developed. When that all goes away, there is no more you any more. There just is.