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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:
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.
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In this book, Deborah Eden Tull offers the strong medicine of darkness, which helps us navigate the uncertainty of our times. The overlighting of our planet in its urban and more populated areas robs people of access to their own hidden depths, so needed in these times of growing peril.
joanna macy , author of Active Hope
A novel and inspiring exploration of darkness bringing grace and balance to the complexity of our time.
ruth king , author of Mindful of Race
Luminous Darkness is an extraordinary and profoundly clear exploration of the greatest divine mystery of all: that luminous darkness in which as Rumi said, the lovers drown themselves. Reading the book is itself an initiation, and the rewards of the initiation are profounder strength, vaster awe, and ineradicable commitment to celebration and justice.
andrew harvey , author of The Hope and Engoldenment
Deborah Eden Tull skillfully illuminates the wonders of the dark, shedding light on areas of life where even angels fear to tread. Artificial light is destroying us, but the real light in this book can save us. By obeying the natural curfew of the night, and exploring the darkest corners of our mind, we can tap into natural resources previously buried in broad daylight. This book is a trustworthy guide to the treasures tucked within each of us.
andrew holecek , author of Dreams of Light
Luminous Darkness is a wise, beautiful, important book. Through personal story, deep dharma teachings, and social commentary, Deborah Eden Tull reclaims the power of darkness and the divine feminine and reweaves the often-overlooked threadsof potent mystery, fierce compassion, receptivity and relationship, imagination, and emergenceinto the cloth of spiritual life. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to heal the wounds of inner and outer divisiveness and engage our wide, aching world with a radiant, tender heart.
pamela weiss , author of A Bigger Sky
From natural to social systems, Luminous Darkness illuminates with vivid imagery and sensory aliveness how reorienting and rebalancing ourselves inwardly is necessary to help heal our ailing cultures and this world.
nina simons , cofounder of Bioneers
In this moving spiritual memoir, Tull lifts up the role of darkness as teacher, healer, and guide, revealing spacious and emergent possibilities. Each chapter offers mindful inquiry and experiential practice gateways to explore the potential in darkness to restore inner strength and wholeness. Drawing on spiritual traditions from Zen to shamanism, Tull invites readers to engage the luminous capacities of darkness to counteract the overlighting of the planet and truly learn to see in the dark.
stephanie kaza , author of Green Buddhism
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2022 by Deborah Eden Tull
Permissions: Thomas Berry excerpt on from Du Dunkelheit, aus der/You, darkness, of whom by Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilkes Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, translation copyright 1996 by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House llc . All rights reserved.
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Names: Tull, Deborah Eden, author.
Title: Luminous darkness: an engaged Buddhist approach to embracing the unknown / Deborah Eden Tull.
Description: Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: lccn 2021056017 | isbn 9781645470779 (trade paperback)
eISBN 9780834844698
Subjects: lcsh : Meditation. | Light and darkness. | Light and DarknessPsychological aspects. | Light and darknessPhilosophy.
Classification: lcc bl 627 . t 848 2022 | ddc 158.1/2dc23/eng/20220103
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021056017
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Light does not come from light, but from darkness.
mircea eliade , The Sacred and The Profane
Much of my life has been an exploration of what makes a good teacher. I dedicate this book to the beloved memory of Walter Makichen, compassionate guide, mystic, friend, and one who walked between the worlds in devoted service and dynamic amusement. And to Ramada for helping me to see through the embers and ashes of who I thought I was in order to know my true nature.
I also dedicate this book to Bobby (Robert Anderson), whose radiant beauty emanated even from the harsh confines of prison wallsand whose tragic story is shared by far too many extraordinary humans due to the brutality of systemic racism and the criminal justice system within the United States.
Lastly, I dedicate this book to my ancestorsdharmic and karmicwho revered the night sky and who protected the earths endarkened sanctuaries for restoration, communion, and vision.
Long ago, a beloved teacher encouraged me to say yes to those projects, which both serve our world and command me to meet my next growth edge. This book has been one of these divine assignments.
I wrote Luminous Darkness backward into the present, allowing this book to reveal itself to me. This is how we walk through lifebackward into the dark. Into the unknown. We lean into the support of those already behind us. And I felt the support and loving companionship of so many from throughout my life during this journey into endarkenment.
It is a privilege to be awake to the hidden dimensions or magic that make up the creative process. I acknowledge with love and gratitude the myriad invisible processes that went into creating this book. I drank from many wisdom streams and birthed this book through remarkable conversations. My writing called into play the synergy of dark and light, through meditation, journeying, dreaming, poetry, and subconscious churnings alongside compassionate discipline, perseverance, research, editing, and organized effort.
Boundless gratitude to Mark DAquila, my husband, playmate, partner in service, and the love of my life! Your support, companionship, sense of humor, and patience nourished me day and night throughout the writing of this book.
Thank you to my mom, Tanya Tull, a force of nature and lifelong inspiration whose hidden superpower is editing. And to my entire family who are always there supporting me. You know who you are.
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