08-30-2021, 05:51 PM
The blackening stage in esoteric alchemy can sound scary for it's about the breaking down of the personal self. One trick however is that this includes the feeling of being insecure!
The usual personal self always feels insecure because of certainties like inevitable death and other inevitable dangers for the physical body and even inevitable psychological and material threats in the form of loss of career, loss of social status and on and on.
Here Byron Katie's method The Work is useful as a questioning of those beliefs: Is it certain that I'm insecure? Is it absolutely certain that I'm insecure? That's a radical questioning of certainties that actually are beliefs when looking at it deep down as the future will be different than the past. Therefore the blackening stage is also about breaking down scary beliefs like that.
The usual personal self always feels insecure because of certainties like inevitable death and other inevitable dangers for the physical body and even inevitable psychological and material threats in the form of loss of career, loss of social status and on and on.
Here Byron Katie's method The Work is useful as a questioning of those beliefs: Is it certain that I'm insecure? Is it absolutely certain that I'm insecure? That's a radical questioning of certainties that actually are beliefs when looking at it deep down as the future will be different than the past. Therefore the blackening stage is also about breaking down scary beliefs like that.