Foreword INDIES Award Winner Silver Body Mindamp160 Spirit2023 IPPY Award Winner Bronze New AgeMind Body SpiritHidden in the darkness is an ancient secret suppressed by every aspect of our lightdrunk modern worldthere is a Great Mother from the bottom of time who has always guided us through perils and calamities. Now is the hour of Her return.An exigent affecting summons to rediscover the night.amp8212Kirkus ReviewsIs darkness synonymous with ignorance and evil Or is it the original matrix from which all life emerges and the Mother to whom it returns Higher and higher levels of artificial illumination have suppressed our with the numinous since the Industrial Revolution with dire consequences for society our planetary ecology and our souls. This mystical testament weaves together paleobiology memoir history science and spiritual archaeology to lead readers back into the lost mysteries of the dark. Not sinceamp160The Teachings of Don Juanamp160oramp160Ishmaelamp160has a book diagnosed with such urgency and cultural coherence the problems at the heart of modern life.In Waking Up to the Dark Clark Strand offers penetrating insight into the spiritual enrichment that can be found when we pull the plug on our billionwatt culture. He argues that the insomnia so many of us experience as amp8220the Hour of the Wolfamp8221 is really amp8220the Hour of Godamp8221amp8212a wellspring of rest and renewal and an ancient reservoir of ancestral wisdom and inspiration. And in a powerful yet surprising turn he shares with us an urgent message for the world received through a mysterious young woman he calls Our Lady of Climate Change aka THE VIRGIN MARY about the challenges we all know are coming.