The Book of the Dark (Paperback)
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Recovery Capital, 2026
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Paperback. Darkness has been cast as the enemy for most of Western history.The shadow to banish, the night to survive, the evil set against the good. The oldest mystics knew the opposite. They knew the dark was where everything begins. The Book of the Dark recovers a single idea that institutional religion suppressed but never erased: that the ground from which everything comes is itself dark, unmanifest and generative, and that light is its firstborn rather than its opposite. Kabbalah called it Ein Sof, the boundless. Eckhart and Pseudo-Dionysius wrote of a divine darkness brighter than any light. Boehme named it the Ungrund. The institutions that followed spent centuries teaching us to fear it. If you have ever sat with another person in their darkness, or walked through your own, and sensed that the dark was not only something to survive but something to learn from, this book was written for you. The Book of the Dark is the work of a dark walker: the one who enters another person's darkness, carries some of its weight, and comes back able to help. Across twenty-seven chapters and eight parts, it traces sacred darkness through the whole history of religion as one continuous argument that the dark is where transformation happens. What this book covers: Part One, Entering the Dark: the dark walker and the sacred shadow, and the dark gods met directly, Inanna, Set, Hekate, Lilith and Kali. Part Two, Darkness as Sacred Cosmology: the creation cosmologies that placed darkness before the first light, the void and the abyss as fullness, and the Egyptian underworld as the womb of rebirth. Part Three, Initiatory Darkness, Suppression, and Preservation: darkness as the crucible of initiation, the institutions that erased it, and where it survived, in Kabbalah, Christian apophatic mysticism, Sufism and the Gnostic streams. Part Four, The Esoteric Inheritance: the dark thread through Hermetic philosophy, the mystery schools, and African and diaspora traditions. Part Five, The Reversed Current: the reversals of Tantra, the vipareeta marga and the left-hand path of Vamachara, Aghori and Choed. Part Six, Entities, Encounters, and Transmutation: sin eaters and psychic custodians, spirits and entities, the entheogenic threshold, and the far dark of the near-death experience. Part Seven, Magical Currents and Modern Frames: the occult revival, the alchemical nigredo, the physics of the void. Part Eight, Integration and the Dark Walker's Path: the wounded healer and the false binary, how to integrate the dark without collapsing into it. Who this book is for: Counsellors, coaches, guides and trip-sitters who sit with others in the deep places.Therapists, spiritual directors, and those who walk with people through grief, crisis and the end of life.Readers in their own dark night or descent who want a map that explains the territory rather than pathologising them.Students of mysticism and comparative religion drawn to Kabbalah, Sufism, the Christian dark night, Tantra and alchemy.Shadow-work and depth-psychology readers in the lineage of Jung who want the esoteric roots, not only the psychology.This is not a book about fearing the dark. It is a book about coming to belong to it. Dr Rory Brown is a transpersonal counsellor, coach, trip-sitter and guide, and a dark walker, with a doctorate in transpersonal counselling taken within a metaphysics programme. He is the author of Experience First, The Book of Thresholds, and the Healing Through Awakening volumes, and he lives and writes by the sea. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
Codice articolo 9781066662944
- Titolo
- The Book of the Dark (Paperback)
- Autore
- Rory Duncan Brown
- Editore
- Recovery Capital
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- new
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1066662940
- ISBN 13
- 9781066662944
Darkness has been cast as the enemy for most of Western history.
The shadow to banish, the night to survive, the evil set against the good. The oldest mystics knew the opposite. They knew the dark was where everything begins.The Book of the Dark recovers a single idea that institutional religion suppressed but never erased: that the ground from which everything comes is itself dark, unmanifest and generative, and that light is its firstborn rather than its opposite. Kabbalah called it Ein Sof, the boundless. Eckhart and Pseudo-Dionysius wrote of a divine darkness brighter than any light. Boehme named it the Ungrund. The institutions that followed spent centuries teaching us to fear it.
If you have ever sat with another person in their darkness, or walked through your own, and sensed that the dark was not only something to survive but something to learn from, this book was written for you.
The Book of the Dark is the work of a dark walker: the one who enters another person’s darkness, carries some of its weight, and comes back able to help. Across twenty-seven chapters and eight parts, it traces sacred darkness through the whole history of religion as one continuous argument that the dark is where transformation happens.
What this book covers:
Part One, Entering the Dark: the dark walker and the sacred shadow, and the dark gods met directly, Inanna, Set, Hekate, Lilith and Kali.
Part Two, Darkness as Sacred Cosmology: the creation cosmologies that placed darkness before the first light, the void and the abyss as fullness, and the Egyptian underworld as the womb of rebirth.
Part Three, Initiatory Darkness, Suppression, and Preservation: darkness as the crucible of initiation, the institutions that erased it, and where it survived, in Kabbalah, Christian apophatic mysticism, Sufism and the Gnostic streams.
Part Four, The Esoteric Inheritance: the dark thread through Hermetic philosophy, the mystery schools, and African and diaspora traditions.
Part Five, The Reversed Current: the reversals of Tantra, the vipareeta marga and the left-hand path of Vamachara, Aghori and Chöd.
Part Six, Entities, Encounters, and Transmutation: sin eaters and psychic custodians, spirits and entities, the entheogenic threshold, and the far dark of the near-death experience.
Part Seven, Magical Currents and Modern Frames: the occult revival, the alchemical nigredo, the physics of the void.
Part Eight, Integration and the Dark Walker’s Path: the wounded healer and the false binary, how to integrate the dark without collapsing into it.
Who this book is for:
- Counsellors, coaches, guides and trip-sitters who sit with others in the deep places.
- Therapists, spiritual directors, and those who walk with people through grief, crisis and the end of life.
- Readers in their own dark night or descent who want a map that explains the territory rather than pathologising them.
- Students of mysticism and comparative religion drawn to Kabbalah, Sufism, the Christian dark night, Tantra and alchemy.
- Shadow-work and depth-psychology readers in the lineage of Jung who want the esoteric roots, not only the psychology.
Dr Rory Brown is a transpersonal counsellor, coach, trip-sitter and guide, and a dark walker, with a doctorate in transpersonal counselling taken within a metaphysics programme. He is the author of Experience First, The Book of Thresholds, and the Healing Through Awakening volumes, and he lives and writes by the sea.
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