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THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL..."The dark night of the soul is a kind of death. What dies is the egoic sense of the self. Of course, death is always painful, but nothing real has died there, only an illusory identity. It is likely that some people who have gone through this transformation have realized that they had to go through it to achieve a spiritual awakening. It is often part of the process of awakening, the death of the old self and the birth of the true self.”~ Eckhart Tolle ~THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL is a metaphorical term used to describe the lowest point in an existential crisis, where personal identity and the meaning of it collapse. It is a painful process that spiritual teachers point out as the dissociation of carnal identity, with an opportunity to elevate the perception of existence, from a higher consciousness.In most cases, the emotional state that characterizes this transformation process is what we know as depression.During episodes with more acute symptoms, you can get lost or change the purpose of life. This crisis can be stimulated by an unfortunate event that is beyond our control: the death of someone close, the absolute loss of material goods and identification with the lifestyle that had been built so far.What really collapses is the complete conceptual framework of life, the meaning that the mind had given it. It is inevitably an episode that leads to a dark place, where comfort or passing distractions do not cause the slightest relief.Although it sounds like a disturbing personal process, people who go through the "Dark Night of the Soul" are faced with the opportunity to transform their lives completely, and it is this altered state of consciousness that many texts point out as the moment prior to expansion of the multidimensional beings of light within...