Truth of Darkness Retreats Into the Void: Tech Elites, Ancient Rituals, & the Allure of Darkne
About this audiobook
What happens when the most overstimulated minds on Earth willingly plunge into total darkness?
From crypto billionaires to elite athletes, influencers to mystics, a new spiritual movement is emerging—one that seeks enlightenment not through light, but through the void.
In Into the Void: Tech Elites, Ancient Rituals, and the Allure of Darkness, acclaimed author Vincent Froom takes readers on a gripping journey through the rising phenomenon of darkness retreats—multi-day, pitch-black meditations that promise psychological reset, mystical revelation, and ego death.
Blending immersive reporting, ancient religious history, neuroscience, and cultural analysis, Froom uncovers why figures like Aaron Rodgers, Tiffany Haddish, and the founder of Cardano are embracing the black—sometimes with profound transformation, other times with terrifying consequences.
🔦 Inside you’ll explore:
The spiritual roots of darkness in Buddhism, Islam, Taoism, and Indigenous practice
What happens to the brain in total sensory deprivation
How tech culture has turned introspection into performance
Whether darkness can truly heal—or merely haunt
With lyrical prose and razor-sharp insight, Into the Void is more than a book about a trend—it’s a meditation on our deepest fears, hungers, and what it means to be fully present in a world that never stops looking.
In a culture addicted to light, this is a book about the courage to go dark.
About the author
Vincent Froom is a writer, theologian, and interdisciplinary thinker whose work explores the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern complexity. With a background spanning spirituality, technology, philosophy, and cultural criticism, his books probe the spaces where inner transformation meets social disruption.
Vincent is the author of over a dozen books, including Pet Theology, Theology of Excess, and Consciousness in the Age of Code. His writing has examined everything from hidden Christian sects in Japan to the theology of doom spending, from AI’s search for the soul to queer-affirming liturgies for a fractured church. In Into the Void, he turns his lens toward a different kind of pilgrimage: the modern descent into darkness, silence, and the self.
When not writing or researching, he can be found podcasting about love and liberation, designing radically inclusive spiritual spaces, or wandering beneath the wide skies of Canada and Europe with his daughter, Lisu.
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