The Dark Night of the Soul
The Contemplative Science Podcast
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The Importance of Discipline in Psychiatry
According to the traditions, you fall into these kinds of states because it's the developmental trajectory of growth that these practices catalyze. They're tremendously powerful but can also rewire things in maladaptive directions too. And I think it is important even in the Catholic sort of original dark nights, they sort of sandwiched these states of absorption. The reason why you have the difficulties at the beginning is because it's actually what you need to give up in order to access theseStates of absorption.
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