>>514968364
>Why did Christianity fail the West?
the priesthood takes over, suppresses any real religious experience, and slowly no one has any experience of the Holy Spirit and without person to person transmission, it dies out, and the whole tradition becomes an empty ritual of reciting gibberish

>>513866443
>The Dark Night of the Soul is a period of utter spiritual desolation, disconnection, and emptiness in which one feels totally separated from the Divine. Those who experience the Dark Night feel completely lost, hopeless, and consumed with melancholy. The Dark Night of the Soul can be likened to severe spiritual depression.
its just part of the Metanoia process of neurological transformation, getting the Holy Spirit by contact with another in posession of the Holy Spirit, is one way out, like St Paul getting it from St Stephen, Christians lack some fundamental understanding of the Metanoia process that many Buddhists and Yogis have understood for thousands of years