The Dark Nights of the Soul: Real Spiritual Talk

## Dark Nights of the Soul

A seminar on spiritual darkness, psychological collapse, and the path back to light
There are seasons in life when meaning dissolves, faith cracks, and the world feels hollow. These are the Dark Nights of the Soul. Periods when your old identity falls apart, your beliefs stop working, and every attempt to feel normal breaks in your hands. Most people think they are failures when this happens. In reality, the Dark Night is a rite of passage found in every spiritual tradition on Earth. It is the death of what you were, so you can become what you are meant to be.

This seminar explores the anatomy of spiritual darkness. Why it happens, what collapses inside you, what is actually being stripped away, and how to navigate it without losing yourself. You will learn how the Dark Night disrupts your emotions, your memory, your self-concept, and your relationship to the world. You will also learn the skills, practices, and insights that help you walk through it with clarity rather than despair. The end of the Dark Night is not survival. The end is transformation. You come out the other side with a new level of awareness, a deeper capacity for compassion, and a stronger spiritual center.

This is not therapy and it is not self-help. It is a deep study of the machinery of consciousness during collapse and rebirth. Perfect for people who are in the middle of their own spiritual confusion or who want to understand why life sometimes forces us into darkness before revealing what we were always meant to discover.

## About Dillon Freed

Dillon Freed is a professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience who teaches Mind, Brain, and Behavior and researches consciousness, perception, and emotional transformation. His work blends neuroscience with spiritual psychology in a way that is both rigorous and intuitive.

He has led more than 100 seminars on consciousness, emotional mastery, and personal transformation. He has launched or is launching multiple companies including Aligned, Same Page, and Phocused, and built a suite of mental-training platforms such as BasketballBrain, GolfMind, Letting Go Institute, DillonFreed.com, and others. He previously ran Freed Spaces, an immersive meditation and fitness center that combined sensory training, breathwork, and nervous-system work in a unique high-performance environment.

Dillon is the author of the upcoming books How to Let Go and How to Explore the Unconscious. He has also written a novel titled The Unneeded Redundancy along with several books of poetry. His teaching style is built on breaking complex ideas into intuitive, powerful frameworks that help people understand the deepest layers of the mind. He teaches from direct experience, ongoing research, and a lifetime spent studying spiritual traditions, altered states, and the dark passages that lead to awakening.