{"product_id":"dark-night-of-the-soul-9781573229746","title":"Dark Night of the Soul","description":"While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul's longing for God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey from estranged despair to blissful union with the divine\u003cp\u003eAfter escaping his captors, John fell into a state of profound ecstasy and wrote \u003cb\u003eDark Night of the Soul\u003c\/b\u003e. Later, he added an important commentary to his poem to guide other searching souls along the arduous path to communion with God. Here, for the first time, a scholar unaffiliated with the Catholic Church has translated this timeless work. Mirabai Starr, who has studied Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, lends the seeker's sensibility to John's powerful text and brings this classic work to the twenty-first century in a brilliant and beautiful rendering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573229746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.18w x 0.56d","brand":"John of the Cross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660221968540,"sku":"9781573229746","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ca78a88a-404a-4247-97ca-8649266d5728.jpg?v=1603896335","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dark-night-of-the-soul-9781573229746","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}