<p><b>2023 IPPY Bronze Award Winner New Age/Mind, Body, Spirit</b></p><p><b>Hidden in the darkness is an ancient secret suppressed by every aspect of our light-drunk modern world—there 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.</b></p><p><b>“An exigent, affecting summons to rediscover the night.”—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br></b></p><p>Is 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 contact 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 ba