4 Dark Night of the Soul Stages Explained

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In this video, "4 Dark Night of the Soul Stages", we'll take a deep dive into this spiritual awakening process and take a comprehensive look at the traditional 2 stages and the contemporary 4 stages of the Dark Night of the Soul.
🌟 What You'll Discover:
Understanding the Dark Night of the Soul: Learn what this profound spiritual journey entails and how it can lead to personal transformation and enlightenment.
Signs of the Dark Night of the Soul: Recognize the key indicators that you or someone you know may be experiencing this challenging yet rewarding phase.
Exploring the 2 Traditional Stages: I'll cover the 2 traditional dark of the night soul stages.
Exploring the 4 Stages: I will also cover the more contemporary 4 stage model of the dark night of the soul, breaking down each stage, providing detailed insights and guidance on navigating this spiritual passage.
Personal Growth and Spiritual Awakening: Discover the transformative power of the Dark Night of the Soul and how it can lead to deeper self-awareness and spiritual connection.
✨ Keywords: Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Awakening, Personal Transformation, Enlightenment, Soul Journey, Spiritual Growth, Inner Healing, Self-Discovery, Mindfulness, Spiritual Journey, self-awareness
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@InnerResearcher 9 күн бұрын

Question to you all lovely humans going through the Dark Night of the Soul. A viewer made a good point in the comments, asking if there are any support groups for this journey & mentioning that it would be nice to have people to talk to that are/have shared this experience. *I would like to create a support community*, even if it starts as a forum where we can talk to each other, get support/tips/advice, and such. If you would be interested: can you please let me know underneath this pinned post? Thank you! ❣

@rajupenmathsa3755 3 күн бұрын

Thank you. I’m interested to participate in related support group

@krisr858 8 күн бұрын

For the last two years I’ve had nothing but trauma. Lost everything, ended up broke. Relationship crumbled and left me in the most excruciating state. I cannot explain the feelings I went through it was like anxiety, depression, dissociation combined with insomnia. It forced me to wake up and question my whole existence. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now as I am close to the other side. Question 🙋 did anyone experience like an uncomfortable feeling in the solar plexus all the way up to the throat chakra ?? Been dealing with this very uncomfortable sensation I have tried to unblock it through reiki however it just seems to stay there I’m thinking it’s something I just have to sit with and allow the gestation period. On another note I have changed as a person and I have become a light to family and friends, I’ve developed strength and character and understanding of the connectedness of the universe. I wish you all love and light through your dark period ❤

@InnerResearcher 7 күн бұрын

wow. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this & being so open. I can relate to absolutely eeeeeverything that you just described. In regards to your question: experiencing an uncomfortable feeling in the solar plexus all the way up to the throat chakra -- yes OH YES. For a period of time. I also did energy work and such, but really it started going away when I started standing up for myself, not betraying my own needs, and stepping into my own vision/values/what was important to me. So much of the uncomfortable feeling that I experienced was when I was stuck in this sad "victim" mode, putting myself behind everyone else, and tooootally abandoning my own needs and priorities. Thank you so much for sharing & there absolutely is a light at the end of the tunnel. my dark night of the soul was excruciatingly painful & difficult, but now that i'm on the other side, I can see it was the biggest gift & transformation... ❤

@Brendon_Xu_The_Big_B 21 күн бұрын

I had a conversation with my family last night about finding the purpose in life and I asked many existential questions about our lives. They just want me to follow the typical norm of getting a degree, find a job, make a living for life. Recently, I had a spiritual awakening and everything I believed is crumbling down. I just feel like nothing even matters to me anymore. I just want to disassociate from the society to live in peace and be aligned with my true authentic self. Everybody calls me crazy. Eventually, the conversation turned into a heated argument, It was literally so depressing that I ended up leaving the room in tears. Later, I ended up spending the rest of the night alone in my room and spent a long time doing meditation to release the negativity. Deep down, I do trust the process. It is all a part of the transformation for the greater good, if somebody can relate to this, I just want to say keep moving forward, the universe will reward those that dares to follow their hearts! Peace! 🙏

@InnerResearcher 20 күн бұрын

I can sooooo relate to this!!! And you are not crazy and not alone. Don’t follow the norm. It’s actually funny because this morning i shared exactly these same reflections as yours on my instagram. Time to move away from “reality” and “the norm”. 🙏🏻 you got this!!!!! Youre having this experience for a reason.

@kjr2620 14 күн бұрын

Are there any support groups for this journey? It would be nice to have people to talk to that are/have shared this experience

@sandbar3000 13 күн бұрын

Good you family. Wish I had one. My parents died & I have no kids no wife

@ayoangie7099 6 күн бұрын

I went through this from 2012 to about 2020. It was AWFUL! I questioned everything. I wanted to go home but I didn't know where home actually was! I started getting lots of downloads and couldn't make sense of it. How it started was by being abused by a church pastor. It made me so lost and confused. And when I say it is difficult...it is traumatizing but not meant to hurt. It brings clarity. I no longer and religious. I do not go to church and will never again. My relationship with source is so amazing now! I looked for therapist for this but I found nothing.

@SamikshaShrivastava-hx6fv 2 күн бұрын

OMG!!! I am exactly exactly exactly at the same place , thoughts of being done with this life are cropping up. I simply cannot live a typical life of society pleasing and looks like whatever I do, I keep ending up at a place where I am forced to do something that is soooo not me, now I am at a place where either I am supposed to produce a child or leave my marriage. I am torn apart, I want a peaceful life of spiritual growth and not a child who is causing pain and suffering to the world.

@quantessenz 2 күн бұрын

3 years, welcome to the club!

@InnerResearcher Күн бұрын

Ooft, welcome welcome

@PsychedelicActualization 6 ай бұрын

I'm just emerging out of my own first dark night. Shook me to the core of my being. The most amount of suffering I've ever experienced. But very transformative as well. Even wrote a book about spiritual crisis which I'm gonna publish soon. Thanks for this video ❤

@InnerResearcher 6 ай бұрын

Ohhh I so hear you. The most amount of suffering i’ve experienced, too… thank you for sharing & congrats on the book! ❤️

@sonya9478 5 ай бұрын

Can there be periodic dark night of the soul ? I had one period at the start of last year and I am going through one again now almost same as last year

@SanctifiedLady 9 күн бұрын

@@sonya9478it goes on for years

@JimmyRichardsonIII Күн бұрын

It’s beautiful once you make it to the other side

@InnerResearcher 18 сағат бұрын

Couldn’t agree more!!!

@jochandler1180 4 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@InnerResearcher 4 күн бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

@marty2476 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for making this video!!

@InnerResearcher Ай бұрын

my pleasure!

@anirudhvyas6069 17 сағат бұрын

Without going into specifics, I am going through one right now. However I had a lesson/insight come to me that has convinced me to go back to spiritual journey again which I thought I could never go back to. In Darkness and Secure.

@87jf11 9 күн бұрын

Thanks for clarifying these stages, i am currently jumping between purification & illumination. My own Purification has being very tough to work through & still not over yet.

@InnerResearcher 9 күн бұрын

My pleasure & glad the information resonated. I so hear you!! 🙏🏻 you got this ❤️

@questionMark4443 3 күн бұрын

I’m passing through this experience now. I was on a spiritual high and a relationship with a woman who turned out to be a fraud. She was a man who hoodwinked me out of some money. And I fell for it because I was lonely and an alcoholic and wanted to help another alcoholic who was as it turned out a grifter and I suffer the loss still. But I will survive I see it all as a learning experience in this life. Wisdom comes with a price.

@InnerResearcher 3 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing. You got this 🙏🏻

@tulumadas7773 9 күн бұрын

Very nice and clear explanation, keep up the good work

@InnerResearcher 9 күн бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@kjr2620 14 күн бұрын

Are there any support groups for this journey? It would be nice to have people to talk to that are/have shared this experience

@InnerResearcher 13 күн бұрын

Ohhh, not that I know of. But honestly… this isn’t a bad idea. I would have love on myself. Should i make a support group? 🤔

@sandbar3000 13 күн бұрын

Yes. Make a support group.

@DAIHSSMITH 12 күн бұрын

No. We must turn our back on everything of this world and put every ounce of our faith, trust, and hope in our Lord and Lady. We must rely solely on God.

@InnerResearcher 11 күн бұрын

@@DAIHSSMITH community is essential in healing, especially collective healing :) no man is an island.

@DAIHSSMITH 11 күн бұрын

@InnerResearcher The purpose of detachment, though, is total. Not partial. If we have earthly support, then we are not completely detached. I, too, have gone through the dark night. The unintentional wrong support of others would get into the way of what our Father is trying to work. We came into this world alone, and we will leave this world alone. And alone, we will be accountable. Therefore, in order to accomplish the Will of the Father that no one else can know, we must also go through this alone as uncomfortable and hard as it may be. Jesus suffered so much more, and we can offer our tears and sufferings up for Heaven to use. Our Father wastes nothing. May God bless you abundantly.

@AlexHop1 7 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@InnerResearcher 7 күн бұрын

🙏🏻

@maryamdiao1509 18 күн бұрын

In between stage 2-3 currently for me it was awareness purification ego death and now being purified again

@InnerResearcher 17 күн бұрын

you got this!

@nolanpribnow7441 2 ай бұрын

This is a great video!

@InnerResearcher 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@joeypineda1974 18 күн бұрын

Thank you 🌟

@InnerResearcher 17 күн бұрын

glad it was helpful

@jonstewart5386 21 күн бұрын

Really good vid and it made a lot more sense to me after hearing you say the process is not at all linear. I kicked off the awareness stage about 4 months ago with what I think was a pretty intense ego death (and a heavy spiritual experience to go along with it) and I feel like I've spent most of my journey so far in purification.

@InnerResearcher 20 күн бұрын

Im happy to hear the video resonated & wonderful that you’ve been able to reflect it on your own journey! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

@renidamayanti4545 Ай бұрын

Hello thank you for creating this video, does the dark night of the soul stages take years to get to the union?

@InnerResearcher Ай бұрын

Great question and its soooo personal. There really isn’t a fixed timeline (unfortunately :/ )

@proper.role.model.819 28 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!! This video was easy to understand. I feel like Im just a core and the outside has dissolved. It's really weird.

@InnerResearcher 26 күн бұрын

My pleasure!! And ohhhh - that is so well said & i know what you mean 🙏🏻

@Nyla_Corvina 4 күн бұрын

Honestly I'm still in the process of the dark night. It's been more than difficult. I think watching people fall away is the hardest part. People I care about and want the best for not seeing eye to eye with me anymore. The feeling of having to let all of that go to move forward but wanting to hold on tighter. But no matter how tight you hold on there's no stopping it. You can only delay the inevitable. And there's the thought in the back of your mind constantly that it might be your fault that it's happening. Rather than the truth of the fact that you've changed and those people no longer fit into the lifestyle you now live. They can't understand because they haven't been through what you have. They haven't experienced what you've experienced. They haven't learned the lessons you've learned. So connecting back with those people just doesn't really work anymore. It's hard to admit to yourself that it isn't them, It's yourself that is the reason you can't be around those people and not constantly be at odds anymore. And hard to realize that those people aren't going to make you happy like they used to. Because you care so much about the relationship you have with those people. Be it friendly or something more. Like being in an ocean drifting on a piece of wood next to someone else during a storm. No matter how hard you fight eventually the waves are going to push the two of you apart. And the harder you do fight against it the more likely you are to drown yourself in the process. It's better to let nature do its thing and lead you to where you need to be.

@InnerResearcher 4 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing and you said it perfectly: "They can't understand because they haven't been through what you have. They haven't experienced what you've experienced. They haven't learned the lessons you've learned. So connecting back with those people just doesn't really work anymore."

@Drumlicker63 9 күн бұрын

I think I’ve been through 2 in the last 6 years and idk what things I need to let go of. I’d say that’s the worst part. Idk what beliefs I’m supposed to let go of

@SanctifiedLady 9 күн бұрын

Let go of All negative beliefs for sure. Let go of everything God considers a sin which is a lot of things. Idolatry is a big one Know that the words we use are a thousand times bigger than how the world uses them. Ex. Love, truth, mercy We need to apply this in every definition we can find BUT the ultimate definition is GOD!!! He is all of these things AND the WAY and the LIFE. He’s our only way in this darkness without him we will chase our tails and he is the only way we can experience LIFE and more abundantly For example: Gay are bad and going to hell. The truth is it’s not your business and you are causing that nasty pain to yourself. The Bible says…God loves us all and he allows different things like deception and our own choices to pull us to himself… as long as they acknowledge Jesus is our Lord and Savior he will not leave that one lost sheep!! If they don’t believe and are gay then again they may burn, they may not, but not our business Our only task is to love them like God lives us and that is completely unconditional. Expose darkness and corruption because if you don’t you will be a part of that problem and that negativity will jeep rocks on your own head Sad part is that a huge part of this existence, it’s the rotten valley of the shadow of death. So, mind your business, mind your thoughts because they are not always the TRUTH in God Let go of believing this “system” is for you. It’s filled with deception. God is your only source for information and truth. I have to ask him and wait for an answer. Let go of thinking you have control of anything… My intuition says keep my heart, mind, eyes, ears on God… nothing physical because it may have to all fall away. But it’s a test you have to go through Let go of thinking how ppl want you to think, think how God thinks and how he wants you to think Let go of all physical things or attachments Let go of previous the life you know now to get the one that’s authentic. I understand that God made all things, he gives and takes for our good. He is always there(here) with us and will never leave us and he loves us to his core and wants to give us all he has in exchange for your surrender and obedience. ❤

@beautrice1202 6 күн бұрын

*For me* the things I needed to let go of were: - anything my family taught me to be - anything society told me to be - all the prejudices I had picked up along the way. All these things are rules that are predetermined and way too rigid. There was no room left for being in the moment or for my inner voice to speak up.

@JasonPruett Ай бұрын

Screaming at the window Watch me die another day Hopeless situation Endless price I have to pay A sickened mind and spirit The mirror tells me lies Could I mistake myself for someone Who lives behind my eyes? Will he escape my soul Or will he live in me? Is he trying to get out Or trying to enter me? Voices in the darkness Scream away my mental health Can I ask a question To help me save me from myself? [Chorus] Enemies fill up the pages Are they me? Monday till Sunday in stages Set me free, oh - diary of a madman Ozzy osbourne i've been this way been ten years to the day “I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.” - John Nash

@DanKro 27 күн бұрын

🙏

@InnerResearcher 26 күн бұрын

🥰

@HighSpeedNoDrag 18 күн бұрын

Basically and or in theory, the Dark Night/Soul is preparing one for going incognito or living off the grid. Got it.

@InnerResearcher 17 күн бұрын

hahahha. totally!

@sandbar3000 13 күн бұрын

I'm in stage 3. I hate this. Unemployment ends in Aug . after that? What am I supposed to do? I'm not getting "any job" with an MBA & when I put "guy any job" into the universe in 2021 & in 2023 - it was a disaster. I'm not putting "get Any Job" into the universe. I will not bring hell to me.

@InnerResearcher 12 күн бұрын

Any job absolutely not. You don’t want just “any job”, you have to be specific on what you want!

@MH.DE777 5 күн бұрын

Is it normal that it’s for me so hard to being productive? It feels like I only sleep. I only lay in bed 😢 it’s getting better but it’s soooooo slow. I don’t know what triggerd me, I was in Egypt Pyramides, health crises and then I meet my twinflame. I am on it since 1 Year now.

@InnerResearcher 4 күн бұрын

Oh, absolutely it's normal. I'm a very high energy/productive/motivated person, but during dark night of the soul I felt like a low-energy hermit. It was really hard to get things done because I was depleted.. You are doing SO MUCH INNER WORK and it costs sooo much every, so this absolutely makes sense.

@MH.DE777 4 күн бұрын

@@InnerResearcher Thank you! I know what you mean, before DNoS I was always full of energy and rushing and had my nose in 100 challenges. You’re words calm me down! Can’t wait to get my energy back. I see improvement, sure but It’s slow 🫣 ❤️ take care and I can’t wait for you’re next video!

@dinmaduru 10 күн бұрын

I am worn out. Completely worn out. I don’t think I can take it anymore

@Twinflamespurechannel 10 күн бұрын

You are never given more than you can handle. Your soul, Divine, is leading the way. The sense of being exhausted will pass. Have faith, you are light and you are divinely guided. Lots of love dear soul 🌞🙏🏼❤️

@InnerResearcher 9 күн бұрын

I hear you. I was so worn out as well, after 3 years of being in it: but i promise there is light on the other side & @twinflamespurechannel is right 🙏🏻

@user-cn4re3ln3t 11 күн бұрын

I want to get out of here quickly. painful.

@InnerResearcher 11 күн бұрын

the only way out is through - and you can't rush it!

@sandbar3000 13 күн бұрын

3 years? I can not be unemployed for 3 years

@InnerResearcher 12 күн бұрын

Not sure where unemployment is mentioned in the video

@RoadTrip-bc2ps 5 күн бұрын

Do I get it right? You say you went through all these 4 stages in the sense of John of the cross, by doing a therapy just because you "have studied psychology for the last 10+ years and spirituality is a big interest of yours." I wonder if you are the first one who managed it with this attitude. "a big interest of mine"... wow, all gets so superficial. What a pity. But that is what happens to all wisdoms brought onto this planet. They die after a few hundred years.

@InnerResearcher 5 күн бұрын

I don’t follow what you’re trying to say here 😊

@RoadTrip-bc2ps 5 күн бұрын

@@InnerResearcher I believe. But life ist easy if one interprets all as one wants. Good luck 👍