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Originally Posted by old dead wood  So how does the Dark Night overlap with clinical depression or even a nervous breakdown? |
It's the same thing. See also St. Augustine, Oscar Wilde's essay
De Profundis, the writings of William James especially - the founder of psychology of religion in the west.
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Why would some people have an enlightenment experience, and others would check into a mental hospital or end it all ?
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Fear.
Fear is bred into our very epigenome. That's why the cycle of death and rebirth takes place. In the
Yoga Sutras Patanjali likens this process to gold being burned at high temperatures to vaporize impurities. Same process, ouch, so painful sometimes! But, pain is good because otherwise we would all sit on our asses smiling and not doing anything.
