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Exploring the quest for the reality of life free beyond the confines of culture and society.
Updated on Apr 10, 11
Created on Mar 29, 09
Category: Religion & Beliefs
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Exploring Life's List: 3. Spirit
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Mar 18, 11
Artistry is hope within the dark night. Our interface with the unknown is our creative imagination. What we already know and have learned has no utility in this mysterious and foreboding space. To impose our rationale minds on it will only serve to intensify the suffering we experience. The dark night embraces and calls upon our deepest and most primal creativity – the creativity that originates in hope, survival, love, and beauty.
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Mar 18, 11
A dark night amputates our existing sense of identity as if removing a mask we forget we were wearing. The soul poignantly whispers to us that we can no longer be who we were and we do not yet know who we will be. A dark night of the soul is not merely an identity crisis, it is the sudden absence of identity and an absolute loss of self. A dark night of the soul is the medium in which we learn about our own suffering, and to learn about suffering is to pursue the essence of presence.
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anthroposophy
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The Jungian shadow consists of the aspects of the self that we condemn, reject, deny, suppress and project onto others. We avoid looking at our own dark, unconscious side because it makes us ashamed. Our shame leads us to push it down into the crypts of the soul. Thus banished, it becomes our shadow.
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Apr 10, 11
A basic premise of St. John’s dark night is that both the sense and the soul must be “cleansed” or “purified.” What precisely is it that requires cleansing and purification? In the spiritual domain there is only one way in which we can identify truth, and that is through direct experience. Spirituality cannot proceed by merely reading books; we must investigate what is being said in an authentic and personal manner. If something needs to be cleansed or purified, then I expect there is something within that is causing pain, suffering, or some kind of lingering anxiety. He describes the first night, the purification of the senses, as bitter and devastating, and the second night, the purification of the spirit, as horrendous and terrifying. The reason for this is the presence of evil within.
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