I've been practicing contemplative prayer for three years and last week during silence I felt this overwhelming sense of God's absence, like a door slammed shut, and now I'm afraid I did something wrong or lost my way.
More people experience this than they realize.
The soul encounters the dark night as a natural deepening of spiritual intimacy, though the ego experiences this as abandonment.
“Where Are You with Christian mysticism — the contemplative tradition?”
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