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Depression, Spiritual Transformation and the Alchemy of Nigredo
Someone I met in Bali introduced me to an alchemical concept called Nigredo. “The blackening.” The stage where everything dissolves before transformation can begin. And the moment he described it, something in me finally made sense. What if the parts of ourselves we are trying hardest to fix are actually the parts carrying us through transformation? This experience completely changed the way I view depression and spiritual transformation. When I wrote The Depths, I thought I

Leyla Ramadan
May 145 min read
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