The Gateway In The Darkness with Thomas Moore, Ph.D.

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The dark night of the soul is an age-old reference to an experience we all share. But too often we avoid the experience at all costs-we immerse ourselves in idle entertainment, or numb ourselves with alcohol or television. And yet, in the words of Thomas Moore, "Darkness makes us into who we are going to become." If we can find the courage to enter into the darkness to learn what it has to teach us, we can find resources of wisdom, inspiration and transformation that are unavailable in the light of day. What can we do to turn our own difficult times into opportunities to move forward into a greater understanding of who we are? Thomas Moore brings a wealth of experience show us how we can make our way through our own darkness toward the light of dawn. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Thomas Moore, Ph.D. was a monk for twelve years, a university professor. He is a musician and a psychotherapist and lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. He has a Ph.D. in religion from Syracuse University.

He’s the author of:

• Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (HarperPerennial 1994)
• The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love (Harper Perennial 1999)
• Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals (Gotham 2005)
• A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World (Gotham 2014)

To learn more about Thomas Moore’s work go to https://thomasmooresoul.com

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How you can maintain hope, vision and integrity when life seems to have fallen apart
• What your local recycling center can teach you about life and death
• How you can use music to deal with your own darkness
• What price we pay for believing we must be happy at all costs
• Why our sexuality can be an avenue to the dark places in the soul
• How embracing an understanding of the atrocities that occur around the world can help us become more of who we are