dark night
the dark has always been a teacher for me, more honest than any light-chasing ever was.
it’s not just where the fear lives, it’s where the soul speaks.
thank you for naming this, Morgan. 🖤
> the dark is one of our greatest teachers. it houses our shadows and fears, our soul’s truth, intuition, and power.
Alexandra Winteravensubstack.comdo you ever wonder why ascension has been sold to the masses?
why everything is about “raise your vibration,” “align with your higher self,” “reach 5D consciousness”, “transcend your ego”? why the spiritual goal always seems to be up?
I do. and honestly, it feels like another trap.
we came to a dense, material, 3D planet in human form. we chose... See more
Alexandra Winteravensubstack.comIn fact, the Buddha had begun the process of growing down early in his life, when he left his protected palace gardens to enter the street. There the sick, the dead, the poor, and the old drew his soul down into the question of how to live life in the world.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
Organic images of growth follow the favorite symbol for human life, the tree, but I am turning that tree upside down. My model of growth has its roots in heaven and imagines a gradual descent downward toward human affairs. This is the Tree of the Kabbalah in the Jewish and also Christian mystical tradition.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkenings and despairings that the soul requires to deepen into life.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
When you're dealing with something difficult, try zooming out and imagining it happening to a character in a movie. Instead of being stuck in the pain of the moment, see it as part of a bigger narrative that you're detached from.
According to Jung, the Self often calls the ego to sacrifice, to go through a process of death and transformation. This anguish is a sign that the soul is about to enter the dark night of the soul —but consciously.
Juan Duran • The Symbolic Treasure Behind Holy Week (Part II)
for Hillman, death is also the death of a materialist viewpoint, freeing us for imaginal and poetic life, a life beyond life, and a movement into psychological depth.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
"tragic art ... deals with the fact that a man is born to die."