dark night of the soul

Quite alot over the years, started with philosophy and psychology then lead me into the spiritual, I'll write a quick look... The chimp paradox The 48 laws of power The power of now Then into spirit…

Heart chakra help — Hello all, I hope everyone is well. I am suffering from a closed heart chakra, I consciously think I am good there but I am not. I hold pain there. It began in 2023, I got a snippet of some trauma i…

Carl Jung wasn't a psychologist. He was a shaman. — Carl Jung quietly wrote one of the most profound esoteric texts of all time, at least in my own personal opinion. Seven Sermons to the Dead was written in 1916, privately shared between a handful of J…

3g Mushroom Trip on Good Friday / Full Moon: Seeking Chaos Magick perspectives and "Self-Remembrance" techniques. — Hi everyone, Tomorrow (Good Friday / Full Moon), I’ll be taking 3g of dried mushrooms in a rural setting (Tarija, Bolivia). This will be my first full experience with psilocybin, though I have a back…

the most common ones are "dark night of the soul" from Christian contemplative tradition and "nibbida" (disenchantment) in Theravada Buddhism. both describe a stage where sensory and social engagement…

Softening some parts of the ego definitely felt most problematic. The ego clings to *material* world too much, so it took a long time to soften it enough to a middle way of *material and spiritual*. …

Try listening to some Alan Watts lectures. Not the new, AI ones on youtube. Try finding videos 5-10 years old. These are the real ones. His lectures helped me immensely when I was having a dark night …

It's so important. Carl Jung called it the dark night of the soul. It's a right of passage you're almost there. Keep going

Yes! I overfunctioned my way to a Master's degree and a career in advertising. Then, cue total malfunction. Panic attacks. Psychotherapy. Job crisis after job crisis. Suicidal ideation. Weird nervous …

The random shaking, and perhaps the intense senses, are what are called Kriyas. These are thought to be the result of energy/prana/chi that has awakened and is moving and trying to find a way out but …

We all go through periods of self evaluation and reassessing our belief systems, looks like this is one for you. But things have to be in balance. You've allowed yourself space to explore internally,…

I started having spontaneous APs after my dark night of the soul too. Have you had your ego death/tower moment yet? FWIW, I’m sorry for your loss. I can only imagine how strong your bond must have b…

I was a opioid addict for 10 years the last 7 on heroin/fentanyl. The first time I encountered them was a whole 24 hour missing time episode in the middle of Hoosier National Forest. I literally thr…

There’s so much aid available to us. We usually just never reach out for it.  The dark night of the soul brings us to a point where we stop playing the game of life and finally reach out in desperati…

The most nefarious part is when they train you to think being a victim is a negative thing, like shame on you for expressing your feelings, and then I think that’s what locks you in. I think that the…

Tbh when I first got into manifestation/spirituality, I was excited as hell, super aware, everything felt intense and meaningful. I was aware 24/7, not kidding like fully present in every moment. If …

As an aside, my longest life friend is a Scorpio stellium and one of the grooviest, funniest people I know. You got this!! The Saturn retrograde lessons are just a little different. From experience,…

New to reddit literally learning how to use app right now! I came here for this stories like yours!!! Thank you for sharing. You are still standing, amazing, just amazing, rebuilt from the ground up!!…