Waking Up to the Dark Clark Strand
epub | 5.68 MB | English | Author :Clark Strand, Will Lytle | B00N6PEVGU | 2015 | Random House Publishing Group

Book Description :

In the tradition of Thomas Merton's spiritual classic The Seven Storey Mountain or Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul, Waking Up to the Dark is a deeply resonant and personal project--a modern gospel that is an investigation of the relationship between darkness and the soul. The darkness Clark Strand is talking about here is literal: the darkness of the nighttime, of a world before electricity, when there was a rhythm to life that followed the sun's rising and setting.

Strand here offers penetrating insight into the spiritual enrichment that can be found when we pull the plug on our billion-watt culture. He argues that the insomnia so many of us experience as "the Hour of the Wolf" is really "the Hour of God"--a wellspring of rest and renewal, and an ancient reservoir of ancestral wisdom and inspiration. And in a powerful yet surprising turn, he shares with us an urgent message for the world, received through a mysterious young woman, about the changes we all...

Category : | Spiritual Self-Help, Sleep Disorders, Christian Self-Help