Luminous Darkness w/ Deborah Eden Tull

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. Eden 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.Eden teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. She spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has been teaching dharma for 19 years. Eden has also been living in, and teaching about, sustainable communities for over 25 years.Her teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness, experiential learning, inquiry, and an unwavering commitment to personal transformation. She teaches engaged awareness practice, which emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and global engagement.She is author of “Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Our Self, Each Other, and Our Planet” (Wisdom 2018) and “The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide for the Sustainable Food Revolution.” Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, Yogi Times, GOOP, Shambhala Times, and The Ecologist. What you will Learn:How Eden’s debilitating sickness at the monastery led to always listening to and honoring her women’s intuition(10:25)Hierarchy in the monastery (12:17)Using meditation as the greatest guide to experience shared power (13:58)The dynamic interplay of darkness (14:40)What is “sunshining” (33:44)Practical steps to embracing the darkness (37:37)The practice of consciously allowing - doing nothing (39:18)The unique invitation on winter and what it has to offer (42:51)Connect with Eden:WebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTubeLuminous Darkness BookLet’s Connect!WebsiteInstagramFacebookYouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.