{"product_id":"darkness-visible-awakening-spiritual-light-through-darkness-meditation-9781594770616","title":"Darkness Visible: Awakening Spiritual Light Through Darkness Meditation","description":"The first book to examine the spiritual and therapeutic practice of retreat in physical darkness to explore inner light \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Shows how experiencing complete darkness over prolonged periods helps in developing mental clarity and creativity \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Draws upon many indigenous and spiritual traditions that use this technique \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe use of ceremonial darkness is a classic and cross-cultural method for exploring hidden aspects of unconscious and super-conscious states, accessing invisible landscapes, and embracing the deeper recesses of the self. In \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e Heaven and Buxton examine the spiritual and therapeutic practice of taking retreat in physical darkness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor millennia mystics and sages have used darkness as a spiritual tool for breaking with their pasts, prior conditioning, and the limited reality of their societies. Spiritual seekers from many traditions--Celtic, Eastern, indigenous North and South American, Tibetan, and African--have used darkness as a tool for spiritual enlightenment. Heaven and Buxton show how experiencing complete darkness, even for only a period of hours, brings about a remarkable clarity and mental stillness and thus provides a springboard for creativity, intuition, and spiritual development. They include exercises that explore lucid levels of dream consciousness, drawing both from their experience as teachers of this method and from the many cultures that include this practice in their spiritual traditions. \u003ci\u003eDarkness Visible\u003c\/i\u003e shows how deprivation of sight can truly teach us to see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Destiny Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594770616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.10w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2005\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ross Heaven, Simon Buxton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661115617436,"sku":"9781594770616","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f0d576c5-0f30-4dff-bac6-30316b442a5d.jpg?v=1603898665","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/darkness-visible-awakening-spiritual-light-through-darkness-meditation-9781594770616","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}