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	Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dark Night of the Soul is a term used to describe a specific phase in a Christian's prayer life.
		The term and metaphysicality of the "dark night of the soul" is taken from the writings of Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite priest and mystic in the sixteenth century.
		Dark Night of the Soul is also the name of a poem by the same author, describing the experience, and also the name of a book in which he writes a commentary on the poem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_night_of_the_soul (286 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul
		"Dark night of the soul" sounds like a threatening and much to be avoided experience.
		Indeed, the dark night usually occurs like an initiation before one of these special seekers is admitted into regular relationship with higher consciousness.
		While the term dark night of the soul is used broadly, its general meaning — in the field of higher consciousness — is a lengthy and profound absence of light and hope.
	www.the-mystic.org /dark-night (178 words)

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		In Chapter viii, St. John of the Cross begins to describe the Passive Night of the senses, the principal aim of which is the purgation or stripping of the soul of its imperfections and the preparation of it for fruitive union.
		This, nevertheless, is the Dark Night par excellence, of which the Saint speaks in these words: âThe night which we have called that of sense may and should be called a kind of correction and restraint of the desire rather than purgation.
		These souls have likewise the hebetudo mentis [104] and the natural roughness which every man contracts through sin, and the distraction and outward clinging of the spirit, which must be enlightened, refined and recollected by the afflictions and perils of that night.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/john_cross/dark_night.txt (13586 words)

	Welcome... Beings of Light - Spiritual Crisis
		Dark night of the soul, holy madness, spiritual emergency spiritual crisis, spiritual madness, and spiritual emergence are various phrases that have been used to describe a unique experience - a profound test of faith, endurance, inner purification and surrender - that is a necessary part of walking the path back home to God.
		One of the purposes of the dark night is to help us break that cycle so that we no longer attach to or anchor ourselves in the physical world of planet Earth.
		Because of its profound challenges, the dark night has also become a reference point for an experience of intense, spiritual struggle, and a passage into the wilderness that is filled with utter hopelessness and isolation.
	www.fromthestars.com /page26.html (1620 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul, by St. John of the Cross, translated by Mirabai Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Many people borrow the powerful phrase "dark night of the soul" to describe a period of suffering and confusion in their lives.
		For John, the dark night is an excruciating but necessary step of the spiritual journey wherein all familiar spiritual feelings and concepts of God dry up and fall into obscurity, leaving the seeker in a state of profound emptiness.
		With her lyrical style and universal approach, Mirabai Starr offers a version of Dark Night of the Soul that sings with the music that earned St. John of the Cross the reputation as one of the most beloved poets and mystics of all time.
	mirabaistarr.com /darknight.html (1253 words)

	Internet Book of Shadows: "Dark Night of the Soul" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Dark Night of the Soul Fra.: Apfelmann ------------------------------------------- "The Dark Night of the Soul" is the name given to that experience of spiritual desolation that all students of the Occult pass through at one time or another.
		And over this hangs a dense and burdensome cloud, which afflicts the soul, and keeps it withdrawn from the good." Though the beginner may view the onset of such an experience with alarm (I know I did), the "Dark Night" is not something bad or destr- uctive.
		The Dark Night of the Soul should be welcomened, once recognised for what it is (I have always received an innate "warning" just before the onset of such a period), as a person might welcome an operation that will secure health and wellbeing.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bos/bos284.htm (536 words)

	Internet Book of Shadows: The Dark Night of the Soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Dark Night of the Soul Fra.: Apfelmann "The Dark Night of the Soul" is the name given to that experience of spiritual desolation that all students of the Occult pass through at one time or another.
		And over this hangs a dense and burdensome cloud, which afflicts the soul, and keeps it withdrawn from the good." Though the beginner may view the onset of such an experience with alarm (I know I did), the "Dark Night" is not something bad or destructive.
		The Dark Night of the Soul should be welcomed, once recognized for what it is (I have always received an innate "warning" just before the onset of such a period), as a person might welcome an operation that will secure health and well-being.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bos/bos074.htm (549 words)

	DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
		The second way in which the soul suffers pain is by reason of its weakness, natural, moral and spiritual; for, when this Divine contemplation assails the soul with a certain force, in order to strengthen it and subdue it, it suffers such pain in its weakness that it nearly swoons away.
		The Divine assails the soul in order to renew it and thus to make it Divine; and, stripping it of the habitual affections and attachments of the old man, to which it is very closely united, knit together and conformed, destroys and consumes its spiritual substance, and absorbs it in deep and profound darkness.
		Inasmuch as God here purges the soul according to the substance of its sense and spirit, and according to the interior and exterior faculties, the soul must needs be in all its parts reduced to a state of emptiness, poverty and abandonment and must be left dry and empty and in darkness.
	www.thenazareneway.com /dark_night_of_the_soul.htm (12208 words)

	The Dark Night of the Soul
		Gethsamane was the dark night of the soul for Jesus Christ; it was the test of His ways.
		The dark night of the soul is a very baffling test, for it comes at a least expected time and with special conditions.
		In repenting of sin, we rid ourselves of evil but in the dark night of the soul, we surrender the things we dearly love, things we can't readily identify as being in conflict with God.
	crash.ihug.co.nz /~revival/night.html (1488 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul
		He wrote some joyous poetry, but Hopkins also expressed, in a short series of sonnets, the proverbial "dark night of the soul" (a term first used by St. John of the Cross) more artistically than anyone before or after him.
		To me he was at his best when his spirit turned dark and he wrote, in the terrible sonnets, of the most profound religious anguish, as in his perturbed rewriting of Jeremiah 12:1, which he begins with
		In night is born a flame that cannot keep.
	www.hobrad.com /villanel.htm (907 words)

	MYSTICISM - THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Psychologically, then, the "Dark Night of the Soul" is due to the double fact of the exhaustion of an old state, and the growth towards a new state of consciousness.
		In the Dark Night the starved and tortured spirit learns through an anguish which is "itself an orison" to accept lovelessness for the sake of Love, Nothingness for the sake of the All; dies without any sure promise of life, loses when it hardly hopes to find.
		The Dark Night, as we have seen, tends to establish itself gradually; the powers and intuitions of the self being withdrawn one after another, the intervals of lucidity becoming rarer, until the "mystic death" or state of total deprivation is reached.
	www.gnostic.org /underhill/mysticism1_0-the-6.html (12554 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dark Night of the Soul: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Dark Night of the Soul, St. John's sharply organized mind gives clean shape to his mystical belief in a loving Being somewhere outside the realm of feeling, thought, or imagination, who can only be known through love.
		Dark Night of the Soul describes the process of purgation, first of senses, and then of spirit, that precedes the soul's loving Union with God.
		Anyone who has had a period of what one might term "abstract madness" will know precisely what John is describing in his experience~~ of the night: nothing is certain, there is nothing whatsoever ever to lean on, and even if one does go the mile and still believe in God he is a mere word.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486426939 (826 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Night of the Soul: St. John of the Cross: Books: John of the Cross,Mirabai Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Dark Night of the Soul : A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross by E.
		John's now-classic spiritual commentary urges us to find rest in the emptiness of the dark night and to abandon ourselves to the love that is present at the center of this emptiness.
		Souls begin to enter this dark night once God draws them forth from the state of the beginners, who merely muse about the spiritual path, and places them in the state of the adepts, the true contemplatives.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573222054?v=glance (1864 words)

	Andrew Harvey's Dark Night of the Soul
		It's centered on the Christian concept of the "dark night of the soul," in which the false self must die so that the true self can be born.
		For me the Black Madonna is the mother of the earth as well as heaven, of the body as well as the soul, the mother of the subconscious, the hidden, of all those powers that the 'masculine' mind represses; the Mother of the sacred darkness.
		The second stage of the dark night of the soul will be an overwhelming awakening that will lead to the third stage -- a really radical, passionate and wild, intense, all-absorbing and all-devouring and all-consecrating commitment to do absolutely everything in your power to try and turn the situation around before it becomes terminal.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/interviews/int_20021219.shtml (2388 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While we are lucky to have modern drugs when the pain becomes unbearable we miss out on so much if we don't look to the wisdom of the past as well, for a deeper perspective born of intense suffering with no respite.
		The experience of the dark night is a depression that seems to be without cause - when you find everything that used to bring you contentment runs like sand through your fingers and you are surrounded by an impenetrable mist from which there is no escape -
		Variations on this theme are found in every mystical tradition and if you can look beyond the words to the spirit of their holy writings you will come to grasp the underlying unity of every tradition.
	www.darknightofthesoul.org (589 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul
		So they have abandoned the one pursuit,[71] yet draw no profit from the other; for, by seeking what is prompted by their own spirit,[72] they lose the spirit of tranquillity and peace which they had before.
		THIS night and purgation of the desire, a happy one for the soul, works in it so many blessings and benefits (although to the soul, as we have said, it rather seems that blessings are being taken away from it) that, even as Abraham made a great feast when he weaned his son Isaac,
		And thus the soul that passes through this either enters not that place[125] at all, or tarries there but for a very short time; for one hour of purgation here is more profitable than are many there.
	www.essene.com /B'nai-Amen/dark.htm (12791 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul
		The first night or purgation is of the sensual part of the soul, which is treated in the present stanza, and will be treated in the first part of this book.
		And the second night, or purification, pertains to those who are already proficient, occurring at the time when God desires to bring them to the state of union with God.
		The autograph of the Dark Night, like that of the Ascent of Mount Carmel, is unknown to us: the second seems to have disappeared in the same period as the first.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /saints/darknite.htm (13910 words)

	The Dark Night
		An explanation of the stanzas describing a soul's conduct along the spiritual road that leads to the perfect union with God through love, insofar as it is attainable in this life.
		The soul must ordinarily walk this path to reach that sublime and joyous union with God.
		Appropriately, this constricted road is called a dark night, as we shall explain in later verses of this stanza.
	www.karmel.at /ics/john/dn.html (357 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul
		The plot is skimpy as can be: ostracized cult leader Shawn (the aforementioned masked man) and his zombie sidekicks preside over dark ceremonies in a graveyard, where a passing quartet of brainless, homophobic students fall into his clutches.
		The skulled one seems to control their gradual initiation into depravity, with tarot cards used as repeated symbolic illustrations for good measure, but his conspirators may have a few surprises in store themselves.
		Though virtually devoid of bloodshed, Dark NIght of the Soul compensates with plenty of bare flesh (including a brunette who, according to the supplements, became an Internet porn starlet) and the ripest dialogue this side of an Andy Milligan rant.
	www.mondo-digital.com /darknight.html (1300 words)

	Loreena McKennitt -- The dark night of the soul
		Also the 5th line of the 6th stanza has a misprint: the CD-booklet says "From o'er the fortress walls" whereas Loreena sings "And by the fortress walls", but this is only a minor difference.
		In a monastery, and St. John of the Cross probably lived in one, there is generally a night staircase, used by the monks to go to church at night from where they sleep (the dormitory), and in this way a monk could easily get out of the monastery at night.
		John uses this as a metaphor for the soul in prayer who, by means of contemplation, steals away from the world unnoticed, to meet in loving relationship with God. The dark night refers to the soul's search for God, beyond the confines of the human definitions we have put upon God.
	www.xs4all.nl /~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd53.html (518 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dark Night of the Soul: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		this book will take you on an exploration deep into the source of yourself to the not so joyfull aspect of the soul that we know all too well.
		its effects bring us beyond words to an understnding and sincere fondness for the neccesity of knowing the other aspects of the soul, as we begin to embrace daily sadnesses and griefs as an enriching part of our life.
		if you are willing your soul will have the experience of a lifetime and your knowledge of self will climb to a new height.
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		Buy Dark Night of the Soul with Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality today!
		Care of the Soul: How to Add Depth and Meaning to Your Everyday Life; Paperback ~ Thomas Moore
		Dark Night of the Soul; Paperback ~ St.
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	Dark Night of the Soul (about)
		About Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
		This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College,
		This book has been accessed more than 98621 times since 2005-07-13.
	www.ccel.org /j/john_of_the_cross/dark_night/dark_night.html (73 words)

	Dark Night of the Soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While all within lay quiet as the dead
		Oh night more loving than the rising sun
		Than that which burned so deeply in my heart
	www.generationterrorists.com /articles/dark_night_soul.html (103 words)

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