When I first heard of Dark Night of the Soul, I thought it is an emotional nightmare or horrible physical ailment that we suffer during our spiritual journey.  Many have interpreted it as such, but I believe it is neither.  Dark Night of the Soul is when we come to realize that everything we believe to be our reality is really an illusion.   When we awake to this truth after death of ego, it is the Dark Night of the Soul.

During most of my life, I believed that my reality was that everyone around me was attempting to hurt me, that my suffering was caused by others, that my failures were caused by others, and that I knew who my friends were and who I could trust.  What I have come to realize about my truth is that what is white is black and what is black is…