May argues that the Dark shadow side of the true Spiritual life has been trivialized and neglected to serious detriment; superficial and naively upbeat spirituality does not heal and enrich the soul.
The Dark gives depth, dimension and fullness to the Spiritual life..
May emphasises 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.
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.
Nor does the other tendency to relegate deep Spiritual Growth to only mystics and saints.
Superficial and naively upbeat spirituality does not heal and enrich the soul.
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 trivialised and neglected to our serious detriment.
Gerald G.
Now in paperback: a distinguished psychiatrist, Spiritual counsellor and bestselling author shows how the Dark sides of the Spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality.
Only the honest, sometimes difficult, encounters with what Christian spirituality has described in helpful detail as the Dark Night of the soul can lead to true Spiritual wholeness.
May argues that the Dark shadow side of the true Spiritual life has been trivialized and neglected to serious detriment; superficial and naively upbeat spirituality does not heal and enrich the soul
