Collective Darkness

Author : Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Publisher : Sounds True
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781683648628

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Opening to Darkness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Pdf

“In darkness, we become devoted to clarity, courage, peace, and harmony. We discover the basic goodness of all humanity when we experience darkness together,” Zenju Earthlyn Manuel writes. “Life itself is a dark experience—a magical experience.” When you hear the word “darkness,” what does it make you feel—horror, danger, or maybe despair? We’ve been conditioned to fear and avoid darkness and blackness, yet Zenju Earthlyn Manuel challenges us to consider: “What if we chose to go deeper into darkness instead of running from it? What might we find there beyond our longing for light?” Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in Zen Buddhism and African and Native American indigenous traditions, Osho Zenju reveals how a change in perspective and increased wisdom can help us awaken to the sacredness of dark experiences in our lives—so we may experience a reality beyond avoidance and fear. Opening to Darkness will take you on a courageous journey into the mandala of darkness, a symbolic expression of your inner world, where you will travel through eight gateways that are inspired by Buddha’s Eightfold Path. Along your way, you will meet dark mothers from India, Nigeria, Japan, Haiti, and Dahomey, who both protect and destroy. Osho Zenju provides reflective inquiry, blessings, and meditations as you navigate your way through the vast depths of the unseen. It is through this spiritual pilgrimage that we learn how to: • Experience the wonders of life that can flourish only in the dark • Discover a collective doorway to healing and deep transformation • Awaken to the illusory nature of light versus dark • Illuminate false perceptions and beliefs of darkness • Heal the fear and anxiety around darkness and blackness Wrapped in gorgeous lyrical prose, Osho Zenju’s offerings provide deep soul relief and collective strength to embrace the dark—so we may reunite with the sacred process of darkness that flows through the canvas of our lives.

Author : Gary Tzu
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781460240533

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Awakening in the Paradox of Darkness by Gary Tzu Pdf

In Awakening in the Paradox of Darkness, Gary Tzu illuminates a path from within the dark realms to awakening into non-dual being. By allowing dreaded experiences such as fear, trauma, exhaustion, abandonment, nothingness, death and non-existence—to serve as a portal into non-dual transformation, we discover the light within the darkness, revealing the bedazzling paradoxical mystery of existence. In this book, Gary invites readers on a healing journey into the heart of their darkest experiences, for it is there, in the midst of their most profound dread, that non-dual awakening lies.

Author : David McFadden
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551996585

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Art of Darkness by David McFadden Pdf

A Governor General’s Award nominee, this book of poetry critiques the commercialism and shallowness of modern society.

Author : Elizabeth Anne Suggs,Brandon Prows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734890525

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Collective Darkness by Elizabeth Anne Suggs,Brandon Prows Pdf

As a child, did you hide under your blankets when you were scared? After reading some of the scariest stories from new up-and-coming authors, we won't blame you if you start hiding again. Take a journey with us into the twisted mind of horror and Editing Mee's first horror story collection. "The Fallout" travels through the unknown, while "Feast" will make you never want to love again. Collective Darkness isn't for the faint of heart. Read... if you dare.

Author : Charlie Morley
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401968403

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Dreaming Through Darkness by Charlie Morley Pdf

The shadow is made up of all that we hide from others: our shame, our fears and our wounds, but also our divine light, our blinding beauty and our hidden talents. The shadow is a huge source of benevolent power and creativity, but until we bring it into the light this power will remain untapped and our full potential unreached.In this transformative book, lucid dreaming teacher Charlie Morley guides you into the dazzling darkness of the shadow and shows you how to unlock the inner gold within. Using ancient methods from Tibetan Buddhism alongside contemporary techniques and Western psychology, he reveals how to use lucid dreaming, meditation, shamanic mask work, creative writing and spiritual practice to help you to befriend your shadow with loving kindness, heal your mind and open your heart to your highest potential. This book reveals: •What the shadow is, and how we create and project it •The different types of shadow, including the golden shadow, the ancestral shadow and the sexual shadow •Exercises, visualizations and meditations to connect deeply with and transform your shadows •The life-changing benefits of shadow integration, including increased energy, authenticity and spiritual growth •How to lucid dream and lucidly call forth your golden shadow and embrace it with love.Through over 30 practical exercises, this book will take you on a life-changing journey into the heart of spiritual transformation. The light you’ll find there is brighter than you could ever imagine.

Author : Laurie Cassidy,M. Shawn Copeland
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814688267

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Desire, Darkness, and Hope by Laurie Cassidy,M. Shawn Copeland Pdf

2022 Catholic Media Association second place award in theology: morality, ethics, Christology, Mariology, and redemption For some decades, the work of Carmelite theologian Constance FitzGerald, OCD, has been a well-known secret, not only among students and practitioners of Carmelite spirituality, but also among spiritual directors, spiritual writers, retreatants, vowed religious women and men, and Christian theologians. This collection sets out to introduce the work of Sister Constance to a wider and more diverse audience–women and men who seek to strengthen themselves on the spiritual journey, who yearn to deepen personal or scholarly theological and religious reflection, and who want to make sense of the times in which we live. To this end, this volume curates seven of Sister Constance’s articles with probing and responsive essays written by ten theologians. Contributors include: Susie Paulik Babka Colette Ackerman, OCD Roberto S. Goizueta Margaret R. Pfeil Alex Milkulich Andrew Prevot Laurie Cassidy Maria Teresa Morgan Bryan N. Massingale M. Catherine Hilkert, OP

Author : Megan Volpert
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820369327

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Straight Into Darkness by Megan Volpert Pdf

Author : Sandra Ingerman,Llyn Roberts
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781454950868

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Walking through Darkness by Sandra Ingerman,Llyn Roberts Pdf

May the teachings in this book help you walk wakefully as you find your way back home. Every one of us experiences periods of pain and loss in our life—dark nights of the soul. This is a groundless territory where one feels directionless and devoid of tools, with no sense of how to take the next step. In ancient times, elders guided their communities through life’s initiations and challenges, paths we must all take to transform and grow. In Walking through Darkness, legendary shamanic experts Sandra Ingerman and Llyn Roberts help us forge a pathway through the dark—as we embrace nature as our guide and healer. Sandra and Llyn share metaphorical stories that engage animals, plants, trees, and other aspects of nature. Through the feminine process of circular joint storytelling, they weave the rich tales of their own experiences alongside wisdom that they have gathered for years from their own studies, as well as from healers around the globe. Through teachings from the land, the sky, the sea, and the spiritual world, this sensitive and empowering guide opens us to our spiritual light so that we can face our greatest challenges with courage and love—no matter what they are.

Author : Soyinka I. Ogunbusola
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456816445

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Cosmic Beginnings by Soyinka I. Ogunbusola Pdf

This genre falls under the category of Sci-fi fantasy thriller a works that is just as exciting as the adventures of Lora Croft in “Tomb Raiders” I chose this genre to create characters that exist outside of the everyday urban-scape theme. One of the main characters is a black woman; a seasoned sea captain for example. I wanted to create another kind of hero, in another part of the world, on another kind of mission based on another mindset; more of a West African theme influenced by the folklore of the ancient Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria which is deeply submerged in cosmological and celestial influences and is viewed as individual characteristic energies expressing themselves universally in allegorical narratives. These legends tend to be older then Western civilization. I wanted the story to be unique and the characters just as unique. This is a story told by the ancestors of the war in heaven before the creation of man...this a story of the battle of illumination and darkness the fight to maintain balance between good and evil.

Author : Neil L. Whitehead,Robin Wright
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333457

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In Darkness and Secrecy by Neil L. Whitehead,Robin Wright Pdf

In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different from shamanic healers and prophets. Assault sorcery, in particular, involves violence resulting in physical harm or even death. While highlighting the distinctiveness of such practices, In Darkness and Secrecy reveals them as no less relevant to the continuation of culture and society than curing and prophecy. The contributors suggest that the persistence of dark shamanism can be understood as a form of engagement with modernity. These essays, by leading anthropologists of South American shamanism, consider assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru. They analyze the social and political dynamics of witchcraft and sorcery and their relation to cosmology, mythology, ritual, and other forms of symbolic violence and aggression in each society studied. They also discuss the relations of witchcraft and sorcery to interethnic contact and the ways that shamanic power may be co-opted by the state. In Darkness and Secrecy includes reflections on the ethical and practical implications of ethnographic investigation of violent cultural practices. Contributors. Dominique Buchillet, Carlos Fausto, Michael Heckenberger, Elsje Lagrou, E. Jean Langdon, George Mentore, Donald Pollock, Fernando Santos-Granero, Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Márnio Teixeira-Pinto, Silvia Vidal, Neil L. Whitehead, Johannes Wilbert, Robin Wright

Author : Deborah Eden Tull
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780834844698

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Luminous Darkness by Deborah Eden Tull Pdf

A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness—including difficult emotions like uncertainty, grief, fear, and xenophobia—through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing. Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today’s world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All insight, vision, creativity, and revelation arise from darkness. It is through learning to stay present and meet the dark with curiosity rather than judgment that we connect to an unwavering light within. Welcoming darkness with curiosity, rather than fear or judgment, enables us to access our innate capacity for compassion and collective healing. Dharma teacher, shamanic practitioner, and deep ecologist Deborah Eden Tull addresses the spiritual, ecological, psychological, and interpersonal ramifications of our bias towards light. Tull explores the medicine of darkness for personal and collective healing, through topics such as: Befriending the Night: The Radiant Teachings of Darkness Honoring Our Pain for Our World Seeing in the Dark: The Quiet Power of Receptivity Dreams, Possibility, and Moral Imagination Releasing Fear—Embracing Emergence Tull shows us how the labeling of darkness as “negative” becomes a collective excuse to justify avoiding everything that makes us uncomfortable: racism, spiritual bypass, environmental destruction. We can only find the radical path to wholeness by learning to embrace the interplay of both darkness and light.

Author : Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Publisher : The Golden Sufi Center
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781890350345

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Fragments of a Love Story by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Pdf

The mystical path is the most intoxicating and paradoxical, difficult, and even dangerous journey one can ever take. Fragments of a Love Story is a series of personal writings describing the passionate love, heartache, and confusion that belong to this journey. In particular Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee explores what for him is a central paradox: what belongs to the individual, the "I" who makes the journey, and what belongs to God. Whose journey really is it? He discusses this primary mystical question from his own experiences of 40 years travelling the mystical path within the context of the Sufi tradition. Some of these passages are very personal, heartfelt, full of contradictions and difficulties he has experienced. Other passages are more objective, more detached, placing his experiences and questions clearly within this ancient mystical tradition. In this way he shows how the Sufi path is lived today by a contemporary mystic. Fragments of a Love Story takes the reader beneath the surface into the heart of the mystical relationship with the Divine, which for the Sufi is the relationship of lover and Beloved. He describes how this secret love affair is within the heart of each of us, waiting to come alive, unique to each of us, and yet how confusing it can be, especially for our rational Western consciousness.This book is about the story of the soul and the passion that exists within the core of our being, and how demanding and difficult it is to live this love affair. But it also describes the beauty, wonder, and power of the divine love that awakens within the heart -- a love that is within each of us. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher and author, and these writings come from his own experience of the Sufi path.

Author : David C. Jeffrey
Publisher : Sylvanus Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780998674278

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The Light Within Darkness by David C. Jeffrey Pdf

The Light Within Darkness, Book 3 of the Space Unbound series. Year 2218. A vast new region of space with its own network of interconnected voidoids has just been discovered, expanding humanity’s prospects immeasurably. But a malevolent mastermind is on the loose, and he’s claimed it all for himself and his twisted Posthuman empire. Now he’s on a crusade to wipe out the human race and is cloning an invincible army of transhuman psychopaths to do the job. The Alliance must stop him, but no one knows where he is among the 50,000 stars scattered across the region’s three million cubic light-years of space. The Sun Wolf, with its zero-point drive, is the only ship with any chance of finding this sinister demigod before it’s too late. The hunt begins with a cryptic clue that leads Commander Aiden Macallan and his hand-picked crew to uncharted star systems and exotic exoplanets. At the same time, Aiden’s mate, renowned microbiologist Skye Landen, follows a promising clue of her own, risking a fate worse than death. But time is running out, and an unforeseen ally from another realm may be their only hope for saving humanity from extermination.

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0801480566

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The Prince of Darkness by Jeffrey Burton Russell Pdf

While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.

Author : Iweka, Chidubem
Publisher : Kraft Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789789181551

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So Bright a Darkness by Iweka, Chidubem Pdf

Okafor ran wildly through the jungle, the phantom captain and his ghoulish platoon in hot pursuit. The faster he ran the more they gained on him. The earth suddenly became marshy and slippery under his feet, impeding speed and balance. He came to an intersection where the jungle paths crossed and saw a mound of earth about four feet high. Just beyond the mound stood a giant Iroko tree. Intuitively, he knew that if he jumped over the mound and quickly climbed up the tree, the ghostly captain and his soldiers would lose him. Eons merge in interstellar whirls. Realism, science fiction and fantasy fuse to drive this drama of transition, cross civilisation and self-discovery