Luminous Darkness, Deborah Eden Tull
Luminous Darkness, Deborah Eden Tull
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Luminous Darkness
An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown

Author: Deborah Eden Tull

Narrator: Deborah Eden Tull

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/25/2023


Synopsis

A resonant call to explore the darkness in life, in nature, and in consciousness through teachings, embodied meditations, and mindful inquiry that provide us with a powerful path to healing.

Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today's 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 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.

About Deborah Eden Tull

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, deep ecologist, and sustainability educator. Eden spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk and her teachings bridge personal and collective awakening. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, The Shift Network, and the Ecologist. Eden also teaches The Work That Reconnects created by Joanna Macy, and for UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. Eden offers retreats, trainings, and online courses internationally. She is the author of Relational Mindfulness and The Natural Kitchen.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jodi on August 04, 2022

This book is an elegant marriage of inquiry, reflection and story telling. I am loving Eden’s transparency as she gives her lived examples of how embracing the dark has informed her life. It is refreshing and comforting to experience the simplicity of resting in darkened stillness. This book is aliv......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on July 31, 2022

Do you believe we need more light in this world because there’s too much darkness? Did you ever view things in terms of right or wrong, good or bad? If you thought yes and still think yes to such dualities, then you’re the ideal reader for this book by Deborah Eden Tull — because you can now challen......more

Goodreads review by Wendy G. Heckert on August 10, 2022

The wisdom shared in this beautifully written book, through Deborah Eden Tull’s personal and professional experiences, her accessible language and comforting guidance, is exactly what is needed in this world today. Tull encourages us through an exploration of endarkenment to become aware of the limi......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on September 26, 2023

I was deeply moved by the journey Eden took me on in Luminous Darkness. I devoured the book in a weekend after attending one of her women's retreats. Absorbing her insights extended my time in the deep chalice of feminine embodiment she carries and expresses. In her book, Eden writes, "We might beco......more

Goodreads review by Anne on August 03, 2022

I am heeding the author’s call at the beginning of the book to move through the chapters slowly. Therefore, I have only made it to chapter 3, but I didn’t want to wait to finish before writing this review. In these first few chapters alone, I have learned so much about darkness and endarkenment, and......more