How Do We Find Union With God?
I vividly remember telling a client that instead of trying to find the answer from outside of yourself you need to accept that the answer can only come from within. You need to accept that you are first lost and instead of aimlessly travelling the world trying to find the answer from outside of yourself seek it from within...
The world is enriched with the history of peoples personal adventures but we cannot find meaning by attaching our egos to that which has already lived its life.
I came to realise that this is by definition what is called within Christianity: The Dark Night of The Soul.
Because first it must come with the acceptance and realisation that our ego cannot find the answer from outside ourselves to fulfil our internal hearts.
That when we do find ourselves lost we must accept it and not hide the reality from ourselves by acting like a crow in nature being only interested in shiny objects in the outside world.
This is nothing but the definition of ego defence or being stubborn with ourselves against the Logos of divine reason.
Just like how Jacob wrestles with God through the angel Gabrielle because Jacob is wrestling with his inner-self. God wants to enter into his life but he cannot enter until Jacob admits his weaknesses and lets the defences of his own ego down to let God in.
This is the only way to expand beyond our own egos and this is also why Carl Jung regarded Jesus Christ as being a symbol of the Self and not the ego because Jesus Christ is in divine union and acceptance with God.
The dark night of the soul is us finding personal Union with God by letting down the walls of our own ego from within.
Now, this is not me talking about taking psychedelics to have an "ego death". The dark knight of the soul is the only true form of conscious ego death because after the use of a psychedelic trip it does not get you closer to God, but only closer to your own ego in the fact that you are likely to have the tendency to reaffirm to others afterwards that you had you own "secret" ritual experience whereby you invade your own egoic experience onto others in the belief that they cannot attain enlightenment through any other means.
But the dark knight of the soul is not like that.
This is why it says in the Bible that you can only truly get to God through Jesus Christ.
Not through anything else.
I believe that Psychedelia in this sense is more of a phantasmagoria, a rabbit hole, a stage play of the spirits, the wizard of oz itself.
It is not something difficult to do, it is the easy way out to allow external things to influence your sense of reality and to call it God without doing any of the true conscious inner-work yourself and therefore to me, the wrong direction.
And it is interesting - if you research Dark Night of the Soul it traditionally came from St. John of the Cross who was a Catholic with regards to finding union with God, but since then a lot of different people have taken on the idea and infused it into new age spiritualism where any mention of God is completely removed from the idea itself.
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