Project Mankind Podcast

Part 2 of The "Dark Night" Of the Soul (When God Finally Speaks)

Apr 16, 2024

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What happens when God finally speaks again. Are we able to perceive his voice, and do what God is telling us to do? Can we discern in our spirits where our soul is able to understand what His spirit is speaking to us?

In our previous episode we discussed the events when God seems silent in our lives. Even the chosen people of Yahweh (Jewish People) have experienced many years, over 400 years of not hearing from God. Often we ask, Has God forsaken us, Is this God's way of punishment, or is this a time of growth and reliance in God?

Join podcast host Thomas Jusayan, and co-host and author, and counselor Dr. Jim Slaughter in their conversation with evangelist, teacher and author John Stolwyk as we discussed the "Dark Ages" and the lives of Christian reformers and mystics such as the likes of St. John of the Cross, Martin Luther and others whose faith were tested, and went through trials during their dark days.

The famous poem The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night (Noche Oscura), a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase, the illumination in which God's presence is felt, but this presence is not yet stable.