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"Is darkness synonymous with ignorance and evil? Or is it the original matrix from which all life emerges, and the Mother to whom it returns? Higher and higher levels of artificial illumination have suppressed our contact with the numinous since the Industrial Revolution, with dire consequences for society, our planetary ecology, and our souls. This mystical testament weaves together paleobiology, memoir, history, science, and spiritual archaeology to lead readers back into the lost mysteries of the dark. Not since The Teachings of Don Juan or Ishmael has a book diagnosed with such urgency and cultural coherence the problems at the heart of modern life. In Waking Up to the Dark, Clark Strand 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 he calls Our Lady of Climate Change (aka THE VIRGIN MARY), about the challenges we all know are coming."

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Clark Strand is an American spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk. He also served as senior editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a position he left in 1996 in order to write and teach full time. He is the author of Seeds from the Birch and The Wooden Bowl. He currently resides in Woodstock, New York, where he leads the Koans of the Bible Study Group. Clark Strand is an American spiritual writer and former Zen Buddhist monk. He also served as senior editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, a position he left in 1996 in order to write and teach full time. He is the author of Seeds from the Birch and The Wooden Bowl. He currently resides in Woodstock, New York, where he leads the Koans of the Bible Study Group.

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