dark night
by baja · updated 6d ago
dark night
People have a huge need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center, it awakens consciousness.
from Working With the Dreaming Body by Arnold Mindell
baja added 6d ago
In 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.
from The Soul's Code by James Hillman
baja added 6d ago
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.
from The Soul's Code by James Hillman
baja added 6d ago
- “Consciousness can only exist through continual recognition of the unconscious, just as everything that lives must pass through many deaths.”
— C.G. Jung , Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (CW 9.1)from The Archetype of Death by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 9d ago
- The Dark Night of the Soul ( La noche oscura del alma ) is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night ( Noche Oscura ), a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase, the illumina... See more
from Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross
baja added 11d ago
- In Christian theology, kenosis (Ancient Greek: κένωσις, romanized: kénōsis, lit. 'the act of emptying') is the "self-emptying" of Jesus. The word ἐκένωσεν (ekénōsen) is used in the Epistle to the Philippians: "[Jesus] made himself nothing" (NIV),[1] or "[he] emptied himself" (NRSV)[2] (Philippians 2:7), using the verb form κενόω (kenóō), meaning "t... See more
from Kenosis
baja added 11d ago
- In alchemy, nigredo , or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.[1]
from Nigredo
baja added 11d ago
- John of the Cross is known for his writings. He was mentored by and corresponded with the older Carmelite Teresa of Ávila. Both his poetry and his studies on the development of the soul, particularly his Noche Obscura, are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and among the greatest works of all Spanish literature.
from John of the Cross
baja added 11d ago
Noche Obscura
- nigredo is an achievement. It means that meaningful work has begun and things are changing. This fluctuation has an impact upon us, and a period of instability can feel like too much to bear. Successful completion of this stage is contingent on the symbolic death of the material, that is, being with the process long enough so it can reach its natur... See more
from The Alchemy of Shadow Work by Alyssa Polizzi
baja added 17d ago