The Dark Night of the Soul is a unique, scary and transformative experience. On a quest to track the history and improve the resources on the Dark Night is Nathan Fisher, PhD student at University of California Santa Barbara.
Nathan is an expert on the texts and phenomenology of these states in Abrahamic traditions and Buddhism, diving into the intricacies of how mystic traditions meet with modern day clinical practice.
Today, he outlines how these experiences occur, the potential for empirical research and the crossover of the different religious discussions – getting to grips with the complexity of the matter!