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When psychological suffering might be spiritual purification

My therapist says my depression is getting worse but when I read Ibn Arabi about the dark night of the soul, I wonder if what feels like mental illness is actually a spiritual stage.

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The seeker struggles to distinguish between pathology and the necessary darkness of inner transformation.

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