It’s Good Friday, so I feel this is an appropriate theme for the day. From the category description: “In religious circles, the phrase “dark night of the soul” indicates a stretch of time (not necessarily a single night; it can be much longer) when one is undergoing a crisis of faith and feeling utterly abandoned….
Category: Dark night of the soul resources
In religious circles, the phrase “dark night of the soul” indicates a stretch of time (not necessarily a single night; it can be much longer) when one is undergoing a crisis of faith and feeling utterly abandoned. For the non-religious, this can translate into a crisis of identity, of meaning, etc.
It is a handy phrase to apply to our affective orientation towards realizing the extent of the climate crisis and starting to really despair.
The dark night of the soul precedes the morning. It is always darkest before dawn. It is the rock from which the water will spring eventually, but for now, it is desolate. The posts here hopefully will provide some resources for comfort and hope in a time when despair and loneliness have eclipsed all else.