Ep. 1 — Consent to the Night
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Ep. 1 — Consent to the Night
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What happens when spiritual practices stop working? When the language that once carried meaning feels hollow, and familiar certainties no longer hold?
This episode explores what Christian and Jewish mystical traditions call "the dark night of the soul"—not as punishment or failure, but as a necessary threshold in spiritual formation. Drawing from desert spirituality and contemplative practice, it examines the moment when familiar language, belief, and certainty stop working—not because something has gone wrong, but because something deeper is being asked.
The night is not treated as a malfunction to be fixed, but as a threshold that cannot be crossed accidentally. Consent, restraint, and honesty become the conditions for what follows. This is spiritual formation that precedes clarity—formation that happens in darkness, not despite it.
Topics: dark night of the soul, spiritual dryness, contemplative spirituality, spiritual formation, desert spirituality, mystical theology, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila
This is not an introduction. It is an entry.