In connection with Jesuit spirituality, I feel obliged to mention that the Victorian Jesuit poet Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) wrote some sonnets expressing certain inner experiences that he had had. Literary critics refer to those sonnets as the "terrible sonnets" not because they are "terrible" poetry but because they are about inner experiences that sound like they would be terrible to undergo.
I would say that terrible experiences like those Fr. Hopkins describes await all of us, when we are ready to break through the layer of unhealthy fears that function to protect us from having such terrible experiences, presumably because we are not ready to endure undergoing such terrible experiences.
Now, in Dr. Jung's final book MYSTERIUM CONJUNCTIONIS, mentioned above, he refers to the psychological experience of "bitter waters" (pages 254, 255). I would say that the terrible inner experiences that Fr. Hopkins describes in his so-called "terrible sonnets" express his experiences of the psychological experience of "bitter waters" that Dr. Jung refers to.
In the book GESTALT THERAPY INTEGRATED: CONTOURS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE (1973), the gestalt therapists Erving Polster and Miriam Polster discuss the psychological experience of what they refer to as chaos -- that is, the inner experience of psychological chaos (pages 41-42, 138). I would say that Fr. Hopkins expressed the experience of psychological chaos in his so-called "terrible sonnets."
CONCLUSION
So are you still on your journey through Hell, figuratively speaking, or have you exited from Hell and proceeded on your journey through Purgatory? Or have you exited from Purgatory and proceeded on your journey through Paradise?
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