Storm

The main thing with a storm is not to complain about or be crushed by its existence, but to recognise its existence and somehow get through it. The more one recognises the recurring patterns of such phenomena,  as pertains to the inner world, the more we should be able to train ourselves to somehow retain a level of detachment from the storm of thoughts assailing us, whilst not having to pretend they don’t exist! 

And we also begin to see a logicality to their pattern - as we hopefully begin to move away from the passions and their influence, a kind of blasphemous assault occurs attacking faith in God and the essence of things. So in a sense, it is good that it occurs, it is a manifestation of the spiritual struggle, and which occurs as the “old man” and the darkness is being uprooted. And the pattern will keep occurring as long as we in our behaviours, keep resurrecting the old man and then hopefully sometime in the aftermath resume the struggle again rather than wallowing in the fall. It’s perhaps a bit like the cold turkey ordeal that a heroin addict undergoes in the attempt to escape from the heroin addiction. As long as they remain in the addiction the spiritual darkness is not threatened, but when they try to battle and get free all hell breaks loose. Does it really make sense that that level of trauma could be caused simply on the physiological and psychological planes of existence for the addict?

On that front, prompts me to post the withdrawal scene from Trainspotting, which I haven’t seen in years with the great track rumbling in the background, Dark Train by Underworld. A bit heavy going from what I remember, so only watch if feeling up to it!