@SW-User power without perception is meaningless. It is destruction. An existential crisis? Not knowing what you are, who you are where you are from…why you are here and all these are what constitutes an existential crisis in my experience. Using flora and fauna in how you see are things of Earth based religions. Balance is inherently difficult to find because most people are lost to themselves even as they are born in the midst of it and who they are has no value to some. Balance always hurts for both human and divine, It is not the Western idea. Transmutation hurts, but what hurts more is realizing what you have truly loss at the precipice of that change. Being born hurts but you exhale chaos and inhale order. You are the balance. You create institutions of imbalance along the way in life. So your fight becomes a war with many battles. The balance is always there you were born of it. The scotoma of believing it’s not there is just institutions of imbalance we adopt and we stay in our own way. Some of us.