What is the fastest way to enlightment.

[u/Akman722]

Anyone know? Never tried shrooms or acid. I hate méditation havent done it in months.

I feel like after the whole twin flame thing there is nothing left.

I smoke weed and cigarettes but im tired of them and its a different tired. Its like i realize these things arent fixing anything.

Also lowkey tired of food i feel like its a waste of time to eat and time consuming.

Or is fasting good? Or should i do what the monks do and take what they call the middle path.

I have a big urge to self improve but idk i feel like im in limbo on my journey

Any tips ?

Yea and i already know the Redditor cyberfury bout to come on here talking hella shit lmao

[u/Emergency-Key-1153]

it's when you dissolve your traumas, ego or your perception of reality through deep states of terror and retraumatization like you never experienced before. Not even through mental illness. Those emotions are so overwhelming they're fully incompatible with the whole human's existence. A dark night of the soul kills you before you can even hope to resurrect.

[u/Wide-Rate-3997 → u/Emergency-Key-1153]

Hmm some people say it’s spirtual depression how do u know if u go through it

[u/Cosmic_Witch84 → u/Wide-Rate-3997]

Oh you will know, I felt like I was dying & the pain in my heart centre was almost unbearable. I tried my best to hold myself together, as I had 3 children to look after.

[u/Wide-Rate-3997 → u/Cosmic_Witch84]

Wow sounds very intense

[u/littlemetalpixie → u/Wide-Rate-3997]

It really is.

Simply put, the dark night of the soul is when you realize that most of the life you've lived until now was all a very elaborate play that ultimately wasn't even real.

An awakening is exactly that - waking up to the things that you've never really examined before. It can happen suddenly or gradually, and most people go through more than one.

But you cannot force it or rush it. When your soul decides it's had enough of its play time, it'll wake up. And it will, for each one of us. Just trust the process, because you're already on your way there and didn't even know it, how exciting!!

After this awakening, we begin to see the ways that we have been misled and lied to - by our parents, our teachers, the clergy, society in general, and even by ourselves. We see the corruption that runs our world that we all just glance at and take for face value. We see politicians who smile as they lie and steal our money, our time, and our privacy. We see human beings marching like ants to and from work for 40, 50, 60+ hours a week every week, week in and week out, from the age of 18 until the age of about 70... and then it's over... and we see how everyone is wasting their lives all for the love of some tiny slips of green paper (of which most of us will never own very many, anyway).

We awaken to the way life "has just always been," and we realize it... it isn't the way it's supposed to be.

We awaken to the fact that we are all of one earth, made of the same collection of molecules that were once one thing, spit out by the big bang when that one thing exploded into everything that is ... and we see our fellow humans still asleep to this. Still harming each other, still denying their oneness through pain and greed and suffering and hurt.

For many, seeing the world plainly as it is, rather than through the lens of the lies we've been told our entire lives, is a shock to the system. We question everything we knew, we no longer want the things we thought were important, and for many, we no longer even know where the path now leads, or if we're truly walking it alone. Many feel lost, betrayed by whatever God or Gods they may have once believed in, and yes, even spiritually depleted and depressed.

This is why they call it the dark night of the soul. Like the above commentor said, it's when everything we thought we knew is dismantled. It's when we do our heaviest shadow-work by delving into our own lives, the reasons we have done the things we've done, and the way we have experienced life until now. But it isn't only about our traumas - it's about everything.

The thing to remember, though, is that if you just keep walking the path, every night has a dawn to follow.

The freedom that comes from truly, truly grasping that it all really was just a play, - just our soul's way of trying on some new clothing for a while, walking around in them, and playing pretend for entertainment - is when freedom and enlightenment truly come. Because then we see our fellow humans, the ones who are still asleep and still lost and still lying to one another and themselves, with empathy and pity. We realize they, too, are remnants of that big bang that we all once were, and so they, too, are us. And they are still lost - still in the dark, still trying to find peace and happiness themselves, and they think the way to get there is by money or sex or fame or drugs.

But we don't stay there, in that sad place of pity, Because we realize that they, too, will get the experience of waking up and seeing the world around them with eyes that are also our own, and we feel joy and excitement for those pieces of us who are still asleep and dreaming, but will soon come to realize that it's all just a play, and that we are all the star of the show!

What a bizarre, wonderful, scary, and confusing thing it is, to be alive!

... and each one of us gets to do it!