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Phönix aus der AscheDurchbruch – Die dunkle Nacht der Seele

 

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  • I believe transformation almost always happens when you’re inside of liminal space, when you’re on the threshold. […] Being in liminal space doesn’t mean identifying with this victim theology that we have so much of today. […] There is meaning there precisely because at that point you can’t fix it and therefore, the ego has to give up control. That’s liminal space […] and that’s when God can get at you. As long as the ego is in control, as long as you’re into the fixing mode of thinking you can explain it. All of our Christian mystics say that the great teacher is darkness not light. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Sadness, Yale University Address to Medical Students, presented by Malespirituality.org, November 2005

 

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  • The Phoenix of spiritual awakening is birthed from the ashes of human despair. Like Mother Teresa said, the beautiful flower, the Lotus, arises from the mud and slime from the bottom of the pond. Dr. David R. Hawkins, source unknown

 

 

  • Paradoxically, the dark night of the soul is often a sign of significant spiritual progress for it is not really the soul (higher Self) but the Ego that is in the 'Dark'. Some comfort can be obtained by recalling the spiritual dictum that one can only go as high as they have been low, or that Jesus Christ sweat blood in Gethsemane, or Buddha reported that he felt as though his bones were being broken and he was being attacked by demons. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Transcending Levels of Consciousness, chapter 1 Shame: Despair, S. 36

 

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Book recommendation:

Alban Butler (1710-1773) English Roman Catholic priest, hagiographer, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints, four volumes (resulted from thirty years of study), London, 1756-1759, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 26. May 2006

  • Another form of the dark night of the soul arises as a consequence of experientially falling from a high state (such as devotional joy or ecstasy) as has been well described in the lives of the Christian saints (as though one has been abandoned by the Beloved). This may arise because one has used up their good karma, subsequent to which the remainder of karmic attachments and proclivities surface to be processed out and surrendered to God. Some of these are deep, such as self-hatred, resentments of God, and cherished beliefs that are often attached to beliefs about suffering itself. (e.g. that it will leverage God’s favor). Dr. David R. Hawkins, Transcending Levels of Consciousness, chapter 1, S. 37 (39)

 

  • Those who became enlightened often went through agonizing periods of facing the utmost of negative experiencing that was buried in their unconscious, of owning their own shadow, of looking at what they had held as most hateful and owning it, and then letting go of it (the 'dark night of the soul'). The letting go of what was the farthest removed from the truth in those positions at the bottom of the scale, the letting go of those positions that came out of self-honesty, led to the realization of the Truth. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 164-165

 

  • By remembering our inner innocence when we begin spiritual work, we ask to have that which is not the truth brought to our awareness. The process is therefore the evidence of success. As a result, there may be a somewhat chaotic appearance to the lives of people who are labeled spiritual seekers. The inner person is pleased because it says, "I have been asked to see what stands between me and the truth, and that has been brought up from my awareness to be recognized, reowned, recontextualized, and healed." We provide a safe space and context about our spiritual work by being centered in the Heart – not the physical heart, but from the ultimate compassion, the owning of ourself from this level, the joy of the spiritual work, and the saying "thank you" to all the things that come up out of gratitude. The crisis is the very event of the spiritual healing. It is out of the crises that the healing occurs. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Healing and Recovery, S. 170-171

 

  • When you transcend your karma, then you have the capacity to handle more. More negativity comes up for you to clear. Famous women mystics would reach a high state and then crash. They would feel they had been deserted by God. Read about them in the Encyclopedia Britannica. You can read what they went though. There are about half a dozen. It’s par for the course! You feel like you are going backwards, but you are not. You have earned the right to see how awful you have been. Sedona Seminar Is the Miraculous Real?, 3 DVD set, 9. December 2006

Englische Texte – English section on Dark Night of the Soul / Dunkle Nacht der Seele

Mother Teresa's grave crisis of faith / Schwere Glaubenskrise

Source: David van Biema, Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith Time Magazine article, pg. 3, 23. August 2007


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Mother Teresa reassured Mr. Van der Peet:

Jesus has a very special love for you.

 

[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak [...].

Lord, my God, who am I that You should forsake me? The Child of your Love — and now become as the most hated one — the one — You have thrown away as unwanted — unloved. I call, I cling, I want — and there is no One to answer — no One on Whom I can cling — no, No One. — Alone ... Where is my Faith — even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness and darkness — My God — how painful is this unknown pain — I have no Faith — I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart — and make me suffer untold agony.

 

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Addressed to Jesus, at the suggestion of a confessor,

Undated

So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them — because of the blasphemy — If there be God — please forgive me — When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven — there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul. — I am told God loves me — and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Did I make a mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?

 

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Mother Teresa prayed to the deceased Pope for:

Pope Pius XII died October 1958.

[P]roof that God is pleased with the Society. And then and there, she rejoiced, disappeared the long darkness [...] that strange suffering of ten years. It lasted for five weeks.

 

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  • Interview with Andrew Harvey andrewharvey.net (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Dark Night of the Soul, presented by Grace Cathedral, California, Colleen O'Connor, 19. December 2002 Link Deleted

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