Since the issuing of Solar Journal- Oecological Sections by Black Sparrow Press in 1970, Richard Grossinger (richardgrossinger.com) has published some 35 books, most of them with his own press, North Atlantic Books, but also titles with Harper, Doubleday, Sierra Club Books, and J. P. Tarcher, among others. These have ranged from long explorations of science, culture, and spirituality (The Night Sky, Planet Medicine, Embryogenesis) to memoirs and nonfiction novels (New Moon, Out of Babylon) to experimental prose (Book of the Earth and Sky, Spaces Wild and Tame) and science fiction (Mars- A Science Fiction Vision). Grossinger received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1975 and lives with his wife Lindy Hough in Berkeley, California.
"This magnificent volume concludes one of the most arresting,
vibrant, personal, and profoundly useful explorations of our common
human potential that has been written in our mystical renaissance.
No one I know writes with the fullness of being and exploratory
curiosity and all-embracing hunger for understanding that the
Richard Grossinger demonstrates with such eloquence and brilliance.
Take these three volumes into your solitude and allow their wisdom
to carry you forward into your next stage of divine human
evolution."--Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred
Activism and Radical Passion "Dark Pool of Light wrenches my heart
and jerks my tears even as it challenges my intellect to stretch to
the limits of its capacity. It's packed with torturously ecstatic
wisdom, which is why--better than any book I've ever read--it's so
adept at conveying the torturously ecstatic nature of life itself.
Grossinger demonstrates here why he not only deserves to be
inducted into the Smartest People in the World Hall of Fame, but
also rates his own special award: Most Compassionate Genius. His
virtuoso, eclectic analysis is drenched with hard-earned love. His
infectious curiosity blooms from his triumphant humility. He pays
reverence to the Great Mystery with the most elegant, playful,
ferocious questions anyone on earth has ever dared to formulate.
Most importantly to me, he proves, with the wicked good brilliance
of a shaman in a scientist's body, that having consciousness is the
most fascinating fun imaginable--and the best gig in the universe.
"--Rob Brezsny, author of Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia: How
the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings "The
complexity of Grossinger's database reminds me of Frank Zappa and
Ken Wilber on steroids."--Albert La Chance, author of The Modern
Christian Mystic: Finding the Unitive Presence of God "Grossinger
has a great synthetic mind and is a master of poetic prose and
imaginative, free-ranging scholarship."
--Michael J. Harner, author of The Way of the Shaman
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