Hello all,
A Dark Night of the Soul is something that can happen to dedicated meditators, near-death experiencers, and psychonauts who have seen their ego dissolve. While the experience itself can be blissful, liberating, and insightful, a tripper always returns to their old life, old friends, and old everything else. Sooner or later, everyone has heard your tales, and the time comes to re-engage with your life, but for some people, this can be difficult.
How do you integrate something that is so powerful and insightful? How do you go back after seeing the ephemerality of the things you used to believe in? How can you start living in accordance with your new insights?
For some, these and other questions lead to profound states of disenchantment, where it is hard to make any moves at all. It can be a miserable state of affairs, where you can transition from deep despair to strong optimism and back again, in the blink of an eye. Relationships, jobs, living situations - they can all suffer irreparable damage.
For a book I'm writing, where these states are described and a prescription of sorts is provided as to how to move from disenchantment to re-enchantment, I'm looking for people's first-hand experiences with these states of disenchantment. Please don't email me your biography - a few paragraphs will suffice about how it happened for you, what happened exactly, and where you are now.
You can email me here, or send me a PM.
Thanks for reading - and mods, if this is in the wrong spot, mea culpa and please help out?
A Dark Night of the Soul is something that can happen to dedicated meditators, near-death experiencers, and psychonauts who have seen their ego dissolve. While the experience itself can be blissful, liberating, and insightful, a tripper always returns to their old life, old friends, and old everything else. Sooner or later, everyone has heard your tales, and the time comes to re-engage with your life, but for some people, this can be difficult.
How do you integrate something that is so powerful and insightful? How do you go back after seeing the ephemerality of the things you used to believe in? How can you start living in accordance with your new insights?
For some, these and other questions lead to profound states of disenchantment, where it is hard to make any moves at all. It can be a miserable state of affairs, where you can transition from deep despair to strong optimism and back again, in the blink of an eye. Relationships, jobs, living situations - they can all suffer irreparable damage.
For a book I'm writing, where these states are described and a prescription of sorts is provided as to how to move from disenchantment to re-enchantment, I'm looking for people's first-hand experiences with these states of disenchantment. Please don't email me your biography - a few paragraphs will suffice about how it happened for you, what happened exactly, and where you are now.
You can email me here, or send me a PM.
Thanks for reading - and mods, if this is in the wrong spot, mea culpa and please help out?