Darkness Visible



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During this workshop participants will be in complete darkness for the duration of the course. Using ceremonial darkness as a shamanic tool is a classical method of shamans the world over for stalking the self, accessing invisible landscapes and embracing deeper aspects of both unconscious and super-conscious states. The procedure of being in darkness over several days brings about a remarkable stilling of the mind and from this pool of quietude the oft hidden gifts of intuition and creativity arise.

The workshop will be made up of a number of exercises and encounters with the self and with nature, bringing in their wake unusual phenomena including remarkably lucid levels of dream consciousness – where the borders between dreaming and not dreaming diminish and then disappear altogether; the ceasing of mind-chatter, the exploration of our own luminosity – and one of the primary aims of the shaman; to experience the world as a sea of energy. As well as our work with nature we shall also be using movement, sound, writing and healing practices which will assist us in our journey towards becoming the seer – the ‘see-er’ – one who truly sees in the dark and witnesses the world not with the eyes, but with the entire body. Darkness Visible is an adventure into the unknown, and Simon Buxton and Allison Brown call to those ready to undertake what will be – literally – a leap into the dark.

DATES

  • Fri 15 Oct – Tue 19 Oct 2021
    This course is fully booked. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, click here.
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VENUE
TBA

FEE
£755 (fully residential; fee includes accommodation, food and tuition)

Maximum number of participants: 18

I returned from the Darkness Visible course about two months ago. To say that I owe my present quality of spiritual life to their work is an understatement. I am now 68, and in my youth I studied with Rina Hands – one of Gurjieff’s final students – and it is with The Sacred Trust that I recognise a similar quality of work. Yes, I felt challenged, but I was also surrounded by care, love and beauty. The one thing that I quickly became aware of was that when Simon Buxton talks there are no unnecessary words – so what was said, was meant – and those words still explode inside my heart today. The quick footsteps that Naomi Lewis took in the dark told only stories of her purposefulness, whilst her poetry will be with me always, for it was uplifting to a degree I’d never previously experienced. This journey with them has given me a freedom of spirit that has come from being stretched and enhanced beyond words. My gratitude also goes to the Sacred Trust staff at the beautiful Sacred Trust centre, whose loving hands and voices surrounded me in the darkness with a warmth I only dreamt existed. It was and is a journey much more that I would ever have believed possible.John Francis, Woodcarver
Darkness Visible
AuthorWilliam Golding
Cover artistRussell Drysdale
'The Rainmaker'[1]
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFaber & Faber
Publication date
1979
Media typePrint
Pages265
ISBN0-571-11646-9
OCLC5754188

Darkness Visible is a 1979novel by British author William Golding. The book won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The title comes from Paradise Lost, from the line, 'No light, but rather darkness visible'.

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The novel narrates a struggle between good and evil, using naïveté, sexuality and spirituality throughout. It marked Golding's re-emergence as a novelist, eight years after the publication of his previous book, the collection The Scorpion God.

A dark and complex novel, it centres on Matty - introduced in chapter one as a naked child emerging horribly disfigured from a bomb explosion during the London Blitz in World War II. He becomes a ward of the state and is put into a Catholic boarding school, where he is shunned by other children and sexually abused by a teacher, Mr. Pedigree. When he grows up, however, his selfless kindness and mysterious persona attract a devoted following of people who believe him to be a saint.

The second part of the book is centered on twins Toni and Sophy from the point of view of Sophy. Their story starts from their childhood, when they are around 10 years old, and follows their growth as they become young adults.

The recurring theme in these two stories is madness, Matty being split between his two faces, and Sophy being schizoid as she is split between her and her sister and others.

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