Ego Death
As we learn more about the natural cycles of Life, we know that in order to be recreated into something new, the current form and its foundation must be deconstructed. The concept and eventual experience of Resurrection illustrates that fact, for the alchemy of forces to work its miracle as a byproduct of God’s natural laws, we must die (Ego Death) to be reborn. This is transpiring rapidly now for many people. This shift has been an emphasis for years now that the necessity to overcome the ego mental body addictions would become dire, and indeed it has. The death of the ego is the phantom death we experience as we face the desperation of the inner or outer darkness, and as we face the darkness, one must remember this is not the “real” spiritual self. This may catapult us into the Dark Night of the Soul or spiritual crisis. [1]
Ego Death is overcoming the resistance to surrender to the process of spiritual awakening or spiritual Ascension. If you fight the changes and transformation which require the death of the prior identity stages that have been outgrown, the new Expanding Consciousness and Christos self cannot be reborn. This manifests as emotional and mental stasis which makes us suffer, and stunts development and personal evolution of Consciousness. The enlightenment process is an infinite spiral of Ego Death and rebirth throughout time and space through remembering the Eternal nature of the self and connecting with the Lightbody.
True power is inherent the death of the former Ego/Personality self, thus the first stages of spiritual awakening and spiritual crisis correspond well to the Kübler-Ross stages of the grieving process:
- Denial: "This can't be happening!"
- Anger: "Why me, why do I have to do all the work?
- Bargaining: "Just let me keep my pointless job, my car and a beer or two."
- Depression: "It’s hopeless, why bother with anything?"
- Acceptance: "I know that I will be in a better place."[2]
Dark Night of the Soul
During spiritual initiation or active kundalini Ascension Stages, there are four main types of the down-cycle of spiritual crisis which could variously be associated with what the ancients and mystics have called the Dark Night of the Soul. These phases of spiritual development are unavoidable, as the "living death" or Ego Death must occur for resurrection of the spiritual body and mind. All must enter the Dark Night of the Soul or spiritual crisis, perhaps many times during the cyclical process of evolution during the spiritual ascension process. The planet is undergoing a global level of the Dark Night of the Planetary Collective Soul during the Ascension Cycle.