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A_Smoking_Fox
post Nov 22 2005, 04:44 PM
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I have reason to believe i am going trough the dark night of the soul. Wich is fine and all that, but it causes me to feel like shit for the moment.
Everything, even death, seems hollow and boring to me.
I feel this intens feeling of unhappynes, sadness, melancholy if you will.
If you want a complete description of what exactly it is, google has good results.

Could anyone provide me with some guidance, so that i may awake from this night a well rested man? Or perhaps some real life experiences, its always more interesting than regurgitated googleisms. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fie.gif)


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post Nov 25 2005, 03:12 AM
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Greetings Fellow Magicians ...

I did the search engine thing 'the long dark night of the soul' and found a perfect explanation for it:-

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The experience of the Dark night is the apparent disappearance of the Divine Grace that the Kundalite has become accustomed to as a warm, loving presence. It is a feeling of having been abandoned by God, characterized by an extreme sense of loneliness, and often a sense of futility and an experience of all efforts coming out the opposite of what is expected.

The simplest way to explain this, is that one no longer feels the presence of the Divine, because the separation from the Divine has disappeared, melted into the I AM. You cannot feel God-dess because you *are* God-dess.


I have extracted the above from Kundalini Teacher


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The dark night of the soul is a blessing in disguise because it saves us from the delusions and fantasies created by our ego. This is the initiation that imprints the likeness of the ideal model upon our ego. Thus, we can see that the dark night of the soul is the passage that takes us from a world of duality to a world of wholeness and unity, and makes us beacons of light for others to follow. We become living models who inspire in others the same spiritual process that leads them to their own understanding of primordial knowledge and truth.

The dark night of the soul teaches us to look at the horrors and joys of the world, the cycles of birth and death, the wars and destructions of nature and of the world economies with a quiet heart and a peaceful mind. On this level, our consciousness becomes a part of the center of everything happening in the world since we empathize with all the pains and joys that humanity experiences. Together they are transformed and united in the hallowed Holy Grail that, from here on, enlightens and illuminates our center of Being. The dark night of the soul liberates our limited and limiting consciousness into one that is unlimited and universal, as Cosmic Consciousness makes us aware of our true cosmic nature.


This was taken from Plotinus.com


The above quotes seem to epitomise the experience very well.


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A_Smoking_Fox   Dark night of the soul   Nov 22 2005, 04:44 PM
mediocracy   Been there for a while now myself. I had some brie...   Nov 22 2005, 05:08 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   Lets hope we reach the end of the tunnel. For the ...   Nov 23 2005, 10:56 AM
Radiant Star   The ego is necessary, the idea that we should try ...   Nov 23 2005, 11:22 AM
A_Smoking_Fox   thanks for your help radiant star. However, i do ...   Nov 23 2005, 12:18 PM
Radiant Star   What a wonderful explanation. I think I have fall...   Nov 23 2005, 12:35 PM
esoterica   mars is in retrograde = introspection, self-confli...   Nov 23 2005, 12:36 PM
mediocracy   Fear is the key. Overcome fear and the ego is dest...   Nov 23 2005, 05:41 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   Hmm, fear. That is a big obstacle indeed. there a...   Nov 24 2005, 01:14 AM
Bb3   There's really no correct answer to your probl...   Nov 24 2005, 01:21 AM
mediocracy   When you are happy, be happy. When you are sad,...   Nov 24 2005, 02:27 AM
Mr_Merlin   Greetings to you all! aaaah ... 'The Long...   Nov 24 2005, 03:18 AM
A_Smoking_Fox   i know what you mean bb3, one must be aware of the...   Nov 24 2005, 05:28 AM
mediocracy   As you have pointed out, the 'simple' part...   Nov 24 2005, 09:05 AM
Bb3   Mediocracy, it's not that you can't turn b...   Nov 24 2005, 12:55 PM
Athena   The best advice is to just wait it out. Be sur...   Nov 24 2005, 05:27 PM
Athena   I fully agree on the ego bit! Not destroy ...   Nov 24 2005, 05:30 PM
Athena   I must say, i do not think that is so. Our past ...   Nov 24 2005, 05:31 PM
Athena   That part always sucks :( I think everyone is ...   Nov 24 2005, 05:35 PM
Radiant Star   Good explanations Mr Merlin :) I don't like ...   Nov 25 2005, 04:23 AM
esoterica   Actually, it should open your eyes to the fact tha...   Nov 25 2005, 08:30 AM
Marquis DeSade   I haven't read all the posts in-depth but I wi...   Nov 27 2005, 12:44 AM
A_Smoking_Fox   marquis, i will have to listen to that song then, ...   Nov 27 2005, 04:25 PM
ॐ Z ॐ   This is a depleating condition I have been afflict...   Dec 17 2005, 10:14 PM
Mr_Merlin   Well said! It is exactly that (for me anyway...   Dec 18 2005, 03:50 AM
A_Smoking_Fox   I read a text by some yogi once. It had nothing to...   Dec 18 2005, 05:23 AM
mediocracy   You cannot serve both God and Mammon. http://www....   Dec 18 2005, 12:34 PM
Mr_Merlin   :clap: Well said! Excellent! I couldn...   Dec 19 2005, 03:16 AM
Rakesh   ] Words can not describe how perfectly this rings...   Jan 6 2006, 04:56 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   I see some light, perhaps a lot. when i stop to a...   Jan 11 2006, 01:47 PM
Sadako   Interestingly enough, I went through a sort of ...   Jan 13 2006, 03:09 AM
A_Smoking_Fox   exactly. Exactly. We may have different faiths, bu...   Jan 13 2006, 04:54 AM
Rakesh   Yeah, it appears to be a built-in psychological pu...   Jan 31 2006, 05:06 PM
Psypocalypse   The dark night of the soul is a total collapse of ...   Feb 11 2006, 06:31 PM
Acid09   Force yourself to do something new. As psypocaly...   Feb 13 2006, 02:41 PM
WhiteRaven   "Not the goody-goody christian god either...   Feb 27 2006, 01:49 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   good advice Acid09. Simple yet wise advice. The be...   Feb 27 2006, 05:32 PM
Sicksicksicks   I always saw the ego as the basic survival instinc...   Mar 27 2006, 07:51 PM
Angalor   Actually I went through something very similar not...   Apr 28 2006, 10:47 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   ah, i went trough that to, but i do not think that...   Jun 14 2006, 02:58 PM
Makavelli   During a dark night of the sould it is important t...   Jul 27 2006, 03:10 PM
A_Smoking_Fox   That is the tendancy, to stimulate yourself trou...   Oct 31 2006, 11:03 AM
Suxur-Mash596   I have found the underlying reason for these Dark ...   Nov 4 2006, 11:14 PM

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