Has anyone experienced The Dark Night Of The Soul?

@wiltingflower: These aren't really clearly-defined stages. It's interesting how they pop back and forth as time passes. I don't see this as a temporal thing. It's kind of timeless, like the soul is meditating on the spirit, which is providing impulses to the personality. I've been twelve years trying to "find my way back" so maybe this whole time is, and was, cocoon time. It's been interesting, not always difficult, but certainly left me wishing for a change. For positive times. Free times. Light.

There's this great chasm between where I stand, and the world outside me. Perhaps it's a chasm because I'm so awake, so in tune, and not many others are. I don't think like this though. A divided mind is not resonant with higher energies but it's funny because physical circumstances have an identical condition. That of faraway, of watching the world from miles away. No, I can't get there. And if I could, I would. One day I will again, yes, but is that desire, cocoon time being rushed? The personality yearning for contact (that it doesn't really need)? Or is the condition instead, that I am exactly where I need to be, to do my great work?

It is the later thought which I have most greatly resonated with. That my soul is learning skills by being here now - enduring things here - that it could not get, in this concentration, anywhere else, that there is no such thing in this condition as crystallization, and that without any sense of direction, the intuition will guide. And guide it shall. Like I said before, it's led to the heart, to the innocence, and to the true who am I. Who I am. There is no temporary condition here, except for, maybe all the life circumstance stuff which is just continuous change and adaptation.

The heart - this is the destination. A place to reside in. And one which I call home.

Thanks for reading. :) And for suggesting I watch part 2. I will see about part 3 later today or at some point.

In my opinion I believe that one must go thru the process..to strip the ego bare in order to finally meet the real You. To prepare and embrace the skills that have always been within.To finally listen to your Souls teachings and guidance.
I can only imagine the feeling of being free of all the unwanted baggage. Ridding self of limiting beliefs..
Nurturing the light and love within..

@wiltingflower: It's been said that we spend our lives catching up with where we already are. Yes - conditioning must be dropped, call it what you wish or will, but the ego is in-fact what keeps us in this world. Practice letting go of it for a time may be a good idea. Mental processes bring you back.