Blowing Out the Darkness presents a new look at the management of emotional issues. Anger and rage are sometimes the most cleansing of emotions, often the most dangerous. Mixed with issues of power, these emotions fuel family violation as well as other problems. Yet the resolving of authentic emotions, the sensing and living of our own truths, is one of the most satisfying and cleansing aspects of life, be it authentic rage, sadness or joy.This is a practical book, divided into two...

This book arose from Dave's PhD dissertation Acedia and its Transformation, an investigation into the nature and transformation of acedia, an ancient word referring to any combination of laziness, fearfulness and self-righteousness that blocks personal authenticity. It is Dave's contention that these issues are both personal and also the underlying emotional angst that prevents us, as a culture, from resolving the issues of global warming as well as the other difficulties of our sp...

Blowing Out the Darkness takes a new look at emotional management. In reading this book, be prepared for an unusual and thought-provoking challenge as well as practical tools for the management of emotional life issues, especially anger, and rage. The book offers practical tools for the resolution of emotional difficulties, especially those of depression, anger, and rage. Yet the tools are applicable to any emotional issue. It provides an in-depth discussion of the skills one can use in co...

There are many books written on the need to change consciousness but rarely does anyone explore the depths of humanitys refusal to do so, even under threat of the approaching cataclysm in our refusal to deal with climate change. Dave MacQuarrie has written such a book. In it, he explains both why it is so difficult for us to change and what all of us can do to become more aware and more free of the darkness within. It is a superb book. Jim Garrison, President and CEO of Ubiquity University...

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how authors working across a range of perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans, feminist, dis...