Dark night of the soul - isn't required. Click to watch the YouTube video

A dark night of the soul is a belief that it

is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven.

Despite what the ego will tell you,

A Dark Night of the Soul is NOT necessary.

I wrote this blog originally in 2018 where I believed (feared) a dark night was necessary. Thankfully Jesus showed me I was completely wrong. This is a happy update. God’s Will is perfect happiness, and a Dark night is a denial of God’s Will.

  • Some spiritual traditions refer to a deep period of darkness and pain associated with Spiritual Awakening as “A Dark Night of the Soul.”

The ego would like nothing better than every student of A Course in Miracles (or any other spiritual tradition for union with God/complete undoing of the ego) to have a Dark night.

  • The ego is the perpetuation of pain and suffering that is maintained through the hidden subconscious desires for painful experiences. The ego’s nature is interpretive, and it never interprets spiritual awakening in a positive manner. Thus, for some who awaken, part of the process seems to be a period of darkness and pain.
  • The good news is that it need not be experienced if the underlying mechanisms (desires) of the ego are understood.
  • By understanding the nature and source of all pain and suffering and releasing the cause of pain and suffering (deeply hidden subconscious desires) it is possible to transcend without a dark night.
  • In A Course in Miracles, the change of mind to release these hidden desires is called a miracle.

A Dark Night of the soul (a painful and dark spiritual awakening) that is referred to in some spiritual traditions arises out of hidden desires for pain and suffering experience.

  • The hidden subconscious belief under a dark night of the soul experience is that it is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven. And there is the belief that somehow this is required by God. God does not require a dark night of the soul, but the ego will try to make you believe He does.
  • If you are experiencing what you think is a Dark night, you can be SURE you are refusing to talk to Jesus—the Voice of Wisdom/Inner Light/Holy Spirit within—because this Voice of Truth will tell you differently and show you a different way.
  • All experiences are desired experiences. Every one including a Dark night! All fear, illness and suffering is desired. Yet when this is seen, this is happy news, because it can also be seen that this need not be the experience
  • As soon as I realized that a dark night was desired experience, I started asking Jesus to help me release ANY subconscious desire for a dark night experience! it was humbling to see that this desire was still lurking in the subconscious mind, yet happiness to see that it can be released.

When desires are released (the death wish), including the desire for a dark night of the soul, then the experience can no longer arise.

  • Join quickly to clear any desire for a dark night of the soul. You can use the Joining in Light Worksheet.
  • What is striking is seeing how much resistance there is to deeply looking at and releasing the desire for a dark night of the soul! Persistence is often necessary.

Dark night is a denial of God’s Will.

So much happiness! So much relief! Amen, amen. and you can do it too. See the YouTube talk on this topic below! No dark night of the soul!

A dark night is the desire for an experience of attempting to win heaven by going through hell.
The ego wants you to have a “horrendous awakening experience”

The ego by its very nature denies the simplicity of the Divine Light within, and thus would have you have a “horrendous awakening experience”. What if a dark night is only a desired experience that the ego hides in the deep caverns of the subconscious mind–the mistaken concept that it is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven–and this idea can be released, so that the experience of a dark night can not manifest?

The Crazy Dream Bubble Diagram Describes the way out!

The Crazy Dream Bubble diagram mentioned in the session describes how the ego hides the desire to resist awakening to Truth. https://youtu.be/rtpXu4hgJzs

For more on how to find your way out of the Crazy Dream bubble,

Download the free Joining in Enlightenment Phone app (open the link on your phone:) https://tithely.app.link/joining-in-light-devotional-center

If you hunt for darkness you will find it.

This is an excerpt from my original post (below), and Jesus told me this was unguided! A good reason to ask for guidance on everything. I can now see that there can be pride in having a “big dark night of the soul”! The ego is comparative even about a dark night.

I was surprised to find in a “google search” that so little is written on this dark night of the soul-a term first coined in a poem by John of the Cross. I found myself guided to read his teachings (DarkNight-StJohnoftheCross.pdf) and this condensed version https://catholicstrength.com/?s=dark+night and can feel in his words much of the same teachings as in ACIM. Every idea of the world must be given up and seen through in the Light of Truth.

It is necessary to purify all of the thoughts and ideas of the world and go naked to your God (contemplative prayer). The purification is talked about in non dual traditions as well. (ACIM for non-dual students)

This has all been very humbling, and I can now understand the great value of humbleness for God’s holy kingdom.

To turn hell into Heaven is the function of God’s teachers, for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected. And now sit down in true humility, and realize that all God would have you do you can do. Do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn His Own curriculum. His Word says otherwise. His Will be done. It cannot be otherwise. And be you thankful it is so. M-14.5.9

Love and gratitude for mighty companions,

Cay