We Can’t Prepare for This Moment
‘Opening to Darkness’ by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
4 min readJul 30, 2023
Earlier this year, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel released Opening to Darkness: Eight Gateways for Being with the Absence of Light in Unsettling Times. She writes about “being with darkness” and “with dark experiences” as well as with the more abstract idea of darkness, so that we are “tuning into darkness as a known and unknown experience…