num_pages: 240
description: A resonant call to explore the darkness in life in nature and in consciousnessincluding difficult emotions like uncertainty grief fear and xenophobiathrough teachings embodied meditations and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing.Darkness is deeply misunderstood in todays 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 FearEmbracing 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.
language: English
title: Luminous Darkness
publisher: Shambhala Publications