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  • A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth
  • By: Gerald G. May MD
  • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)
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Summary

A distinguished psychiatrist, spiritual counselor, and best-selling author shows how the dark sides of the spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality.

Gerald G. May, MD, one of the great spiritual teachers and writers of our time, argues that the dark "shadow" side of the true spiritual life has been trivialized and neglected to our serious detriment. Superficial and naively upbeat spirituality does not heal and enrich the soul. Nor does the other tendency to relegate deep spiritual growth to only mystics and saints. Only the honest, sometimes difficult encounters with what Christian spirituality has called and described in helpful detail as "the dark night of the soul" can lead to true spiritual wholeness.

May emphasizes that the dark night is not necessarily a time of suffering and near despair, but a time of deep transition, a search for new orientation when things are clouded and full of mystery. The dark gives depth, dimension, and fullness to the spiritual life.
©2004 Gerald G. May (P)2020 Tantor
Personal Development Christian Living Christianity Religious Studies Spirituality
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Beautiful book. Best read.

The message here is wonderful. The way it’s spoken turns it a little into a parody of a spiritual text, tries to make it sound too ‘religious’. I accept it’s probably my own prejudice but I’m finding books like this are better read. Addiction and Grace certainly falls into that category

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