The Dark Night of the Soul Pt. 2

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 June 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Part 9 from the series, "Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship", as part of Practicing the Way. In this follow up teaching on the dark night of the soul, we explore St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila’s paradigm of the “dark night of the senses” and the “dark night of the spirit,” and they fit into the ancient stage theory paradigm of the “three ways.” Whether you agree with their view or not, and regardless of whether you’re in a dark night, or a season of the felt-presence of God, the spiritual journey is always one from attachment and anxiety to freedom to love, and into a growing sense of union with God.

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0:00.0	Psalm 77 as we near the end of our spring practice
0:03.5	on naming your stage of apprenticeship.
0:05.8	If you were not here last week, please go back and listen.
0:09.1	As this week is a part two, it's a follow up to the last time.
0:13.2	We are in a kind of ongoing chat
0:16.6	around this concept of the dark night of the soul
0:19.5	or the seasons in the spiritual journey
0:21.8	where we don't feel God's presence like we used to.
0:25.6	On that note, recommended reading on the subject
0:27.7	is the dark night of the soul by Dr. Gerald May,
0:30.5	who's a psychiatrist and a spiritual director from the East
0:33.4	Coast.
0:33.8	It is by far my favorite.
0:35.6	You're welcome to go back and read,
0:37.1	as my 13-year-old would say, the OG, which
0:40.0	is The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
0:42.7	and Interior Castle by St. Teresa.
0:45.2	They're both fantastic.
0:47.1	The hitch is you're reading an English translation
0:50.0	of a 16th century Spanish book written
0:53.2	with pre-enlightenment academic view
0:55.6	of the scholastic model of the soul.
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