Dark night of the soul Options

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)

Fear is the key. Overcome fear and the ego is destroyed/tamed. Then one can open the heart chakra to universal love/compassion. I can't even love myself right now, cannot overcome my fears that the ego manifests into attachments. The work goes on.

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Words can not describe how perfectly this rings with me now.

I'm in the same situation Smoking Fox is. The world is greyer, duller. After a period of being on top of the world, it feels more like a huge rainy sunday. Been for a while now. Months. Food turns to ashes in my mouth. Color has lost...well..color. Sex doesn't feel as great as it could.
A massive feeling of pointlessness of all your actions...your very existence. (this is liberation from seeking goals in this world, btw...its hard to let go of "get a car, finish college, get married, three kids, house, minivan, big tv, promotion, bigger car, bigger tv" style aspirations, but thats precisely the point)
A metaphysical crisis, a total loss of faith, feeling lost, empty, shattered.

The experience is vaguely qlipphotic. When the shit you call you but isnt you peels off, the "solar self" will shine like a bitch. The problem is that before we peel, we are locked in layers and layers of our own creations-call them residential programs-that use up a massive majority of our system resources. We spend time, effort and energy nurturing false self-images that end up only hurting us more. The dark night of the soul is largely the return to the real you.
What's important, it doesn't change your actual life directly. You're not less popular than you were. You're not less exceptional. The food still tastes the same. It only removes the false haloes you have created around these things- self satisfying exaggarations, little lies to self, socially conditioned overrating of certain values...and strip the truth naked.

Naked, so you can a)no longer care about the things b)consequently receive them for little to no effort c)be REALLY good, not just semi-good and overconfident- really frickin exceptional-too good for this world-atomic bomb of leetness. And no longer be an a$%*#!* about it, because you don't really care.


And yes, fear causes most of the bad stuff that's going on.
Fear is a bad master.
And so is the cocky a$%*#!* inside you, that causes you to relapse by taking the golden apples, so to speak, and building "haha, i rule" around them again, until its "heaviness" chokes the spring and makes you have to peel off again.


The way is not clinging even to not clinging.

If I may share a trick, it helps a lot if you just focus and take a good look inside what is the real you, and whats layers and spiritual browser hijacks.
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This post has been edited by Rakesh: Jan 6 2006, 04:59 PM