How I Suffered for 9 Years in The Dark Night of the Soul

And Why You Don't Need To

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What is the Dark Night of the Soul, and How Did I Suffer Through it?

After my Spiritual Awakening, I encountered The Dark Night of the Soul. It was a long, depressing, dark experience that continued for what I felt like an eternity. It lasted for 9 years.

During the Dark Night of the Soul, I felt lost. My heart was continuously filled with anxiety, as if my world, with its known habits and conditioning, was coming to an end. This was because, after a spiritual awakening, my conditioned mind pattern was dying. While it was dying, my mind made me feel miserable by re-identifying myself with its old dysfunctional patterns.