Jonas H. Santhiago Ossa
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Genesis, alchemy, dark matter, and a man who meditates every morning while mold grows on his walls. Fifteen minutes that set up the whole book. Best read at night.

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What's in the introduction

The idea the whole book is built on.

01

Darkness came first

From Genesis to the alchemists' Nigredo and Saint John of the Cross: why every serious tradition treats the dark as the beginning, not the enemy.

02

The fear that moves you

Your shadow forms exactly where something is missing. Admitted, it becomes fuel. Denied, it becomes a tyrant.

03

The man with the mold

Yoga, reiki, ten years of therapy, and a sink full of dishes. A portrait of spirituality used to avoid being spiritual.

The fear you admit is a tool. The fear you deny is a tyrant.

The author

Jonas H. Santhiago Ossa

Writer and Vedic astrologer from Belo Horizonte, living in Düsseldorf. Author of Fülle and Turn Off the Lights. and Turn Off the Lights, published in Portuguese as Apague a Luz.

The full book is out now on Amazon: eBook, paperback and hardcover. Start with the introduction and see if the dark is for you.

Turn off the lights.

In time you realize you can see better.

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