Dark Gold

Dark Gold Excerpt:

Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis endeavors to educate, challenge, and most importantly, inspire the reader to engage with the personal and collective shadow as a necessary first step in both individual and planetary healing. It emphasizes and elaborates on the abundant emotional and spiritual treasures that invariably issue from shadow exploration and transformation. Dark Gold challenges us to become courageous enough to be accountable and compassionate enough to love ourselves and the Earth community fi ercely, even when we feel it will make no difference.

Andrew Harvey states:

In Dark Gold, The Human Shadow and The Global Crisis, Carolyn Baker has courageously and generously provided the missing ingredient in much of our Sacred Activism by revealing the shadow as the treacherous saboteur of our desire to transform ourselves and the world. Compassionately but meticulously, she diagnoses the shadow’s influence in both the individual psyche and collective consciousness and begs us to commit to a descent into shadow healing so that we can become wise students of our planetary predicament. In a time of anguish among all living beings, we cannot pursue a triumphalist approach to our activism, and Dark Gold reveals that nothing less than a rigorous understanding of the shadow and a humble willingness to confront it is necessary in the current dark night of the globe.

Carolyn Baker is not afraid to reveal elements of her own shadow and her ongoing journey of transformation forged by embracing, rather than rejecting, what the personal and collective shadow cry out to teach us. This book asks us to surrender to the power of heartbreak and the restructuring of the ego-based operating system so that we might discover the gold embedded in the shadow. It is a manual for reclaiming the apocalypse and immersing ourselves in limitless love and magnanimous service to the Earth community.