549. Navigating the Dark Night of the Soul | Don't Succumb to the Times

Dark night

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Kara Goodwin: Welcome to Soul Elevation, guiding your Ascension to new heights. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin, and I'm with you today on Friday, January 30th, 2026 for a live stream on YouTube, and I'm so honored to be here with you. There are a couple things on my mind right now in terms of the dark night of the soul and how this relates to the world that we're living in right now.

The time that we're in right now has been heavily prophesized across different lineages. Throughout time, and I just had a, a really fascinating episode that I recorded with Steve Judd, who's an astrologer in the uk and that'll be out soon, next week, I think.

Um, but he talks about that that planets for 2026 and 2027 [00:01:00] are in these. Just mind boggling configurations. And we can see this. We're living the chaos of the times. Because while that may seem, you know, those prophecies of we're gonna enter a new age, we're gonna have a different level of consciousness that seems so promising.

And when I hear that, what I wanna hear is, oh, you're gonna be gently carried into this new way of thinking and it's gonna be this utopia, but. The old systems aren't gonna just surrender, they're gonna clutch, and that is what we're seeing right now, and that has a very personal effect on us. I know that I can feel it within my own personal being where.

I've been doing all of this work on my consciousness and on my spiritual growth and trying to understand things and see things that are happening in my life and in the world in a [00:02:00] spiritual context. When I do that, I very, very clearly see a battle between. What is righteous and divine and what is evil, and that is becoming more and more clear.

There was definitely, there were times in my life, in my spiritual journey where I didn't even believe in evil. I didn't even want to believe that evil was a force. I wanted to believe that everything ultimately was for our highest good and people just acted in in. In non great ways, but it wasn't necessarily evil, and I really have changed my belief about that.

And I hate to go into things like, oh, there's a battle and you need to be afraid. You know, I don't wanna bring fear into things, but it does seem very, very clear. That there is a spiritual battle happening. I mean, I, I just cannot [00:03:00] deny that in my human everyday experience. And so what that does is that it creates situations like what we're experiencing across the globe, whether it's in the Middle East, whether it's.

You know, America trying to get dominance in other countries, whether it is what's happening within across America domestically with military action, things that seem unfathomable, unfathomable, we are now experiencing and we're experiencing it so rapidly, and what I'm finding is that. Like I said, I've, I've worked for many years to have a spiritual perspective that is my dominant, um, way of, of interacting with the world, and I try to keep myself stable and keep.

My nervous system [00:04:00] healthy and keep the amount of news that I'm ingesting. Kind of keep that at bay. But when we're in these times where people are panicking. It shows up on your doorstep. Because, because people are panicking and, and we are in the world. We have people who are, who we care about, who have all different kinds of perspectives and what we, so speaking for myself, let me just say it for myself.

What I see as a battle for a, for. Our life force for our attention. Something many things happening around the world where it's a deliberate act to divide us, to make us panic, to get us out of our. Sovereignty so that we say, oh, there's this big problem and I need the government to come in and make it better for me.

I need them to control what's happening. We need to give up more of our rights so [00:05:00] that they'll protect us. That seems very clear that that's part of what's happening. But not everybody shares that perspective. For some people, what they're seeing on the news or what they're seeing on their reels, their shorts, whatever their, their income, their intake is, it feels very real and very personal for them, and it puts them into a state of fear.

And so I'm just finding, navigating this whole thing tricky because. When I'm trying to keep balance and empowerment and also trying to keep, um, my intake of the narrative, understanding that how much propaganda is out there and trying to keep it at bay, I'm finding that a lot of people who don't have that same perspective who I care about are.

Sending a [00:06:00] lot, you know, I'm getting a lot, a big intake of, can you believe this? The, you know, the world's going to hell. I can't believe what's happening. And they're just sending, when without my asking these unsolicited, um, news and, and it's hard because I'm trying to. Balance two different worlds or more than two different worlds.

And so I imagine that everybody is feeling this way because we have however many billions of people on this planet, and everybody is having their own experience, which means everybody has their own reality. And for me, I try to. Stay empowered to be in control of where my thoughts go. Trying to keep my mind clear as much as I can, and then I, I shift into other people's realities.

I see how they perceive things, and [00:07:00] it just, it, it becomes a lot. And then I also. I'll engage with other. Um, you know, a lot of times you've, you may have heard me talk about this with Teco, this mind virus that is, that it spreads, it spreads through entertainment, it spreads through the news, it spreads through our fears.

We, we give it to each other. I've done several lives where I talk about this mind virus, about the, um, hidden evil. Infiltrates. It does. It's in, it's invisible. It's so insidious that it looks like something else, but it's actually an energy of evil. And seeing that proliferate also can create this dark night of the soul where we are just, it feels like everywhere we look, humanity is being manipulated.

We are being dumbed down. We're being attacked at an [00:08:00] energetic and spiritual and psychic level. But then just yesterday I was watching a podcast of, uh, somebody who's very big and more in like the alternative history kind of space. Not necessarily the spiritual space, but there is some overlap there. And this person's.

YouTube at least, has just blown up. I mean, every time I tune in, there's hundreds of thousands of more subscribers. That in and of itself makes me wonder what's happening. I get a little bit suspicious when I see that, that there might be handlers involved and there might be some things where there being compromised.

That can be a, um, an indicator that there. They're spreading information that is actually, uh, PSYOPs psychological operations. It can be, I'm not necessarily, I don't know for a fact with this particular person, but [00:09:00] this episode I tuned into, they were talking about satanism in the entertainment industry, and the guest was just talking about it.

They were laughing about it and they weren't like concerned about it. They weren't, you know, they, they were so nonchalant about that topic and how prevalent it is in the entertainment industry, how they've come up against it, and sharing these stories that were shocking to me, really shocking of.

Worshiping and how prevalent it is. And again, this the, they're talking from insider information and it was, and it was a joke to them. And, and I'm, and this is somebody who I've engaged with their content. Like I watched their, their stuff and I trust I had trusted them. And I'm suddenly watching [00:10:00] something where they're so cavalier.

About evil and the worshiping of evil and the deliberate spreading of evil that I thought, what in the world am I watching? Who, well, at least now I know where this person stands, that even if they're not, if they're not part of it, they really don't, aren't bothered by it. And that's not somebody I need to give my time and my attention to.

But honestly, as I had engaged with this content, um. And again, just how in your face it was, how casual it was. They didn't seem to have a problem with it. It just was sort of a like, Hey, this is how it works. And I really felt hopelessness creeping in on me yesterday. I felt this darkness closing in. I could feel it was like.

I was starting to see the world in a [00:11:00] different way, which has happened many times. Anytime you're, you're uncovering how reality really operates in this world, this is a familiar feeling of like, oh my God, there's so much illusion, there's so much happening. There's so much darkness. There's so much that people like, I would never believe this if I didn't come across reliable sources.

And even in my own personal world, people who. Have been part of the entertainment industry, for example, and have firsthand accounts or have relationships with people who have relationships with these people and say with, you know, the, you know, it's not like they just read it on the internet. They have reliable sources about the darkness and the deliberate, um, the deliberate acts of.

Evil that are being spread in those ways. And I could just feel yesterday as I moved through the day, it was kind of like I was [00:12:00] moving through mud and I felt like I, things were so heavy and that this darkness was just coming in this almost like a hopelessness coming in. And I really was starting to wonder, I mean, it was very much like.

Am I gonna be overtaken by this? Like, is do I even bother? Do I even keep trying to shine my light? Like, is this even, I just felt like I was up against so much, and not just in terms of trying to open people's eyes, trying to ignite that spark within them, but the active ways that I feel, um, like. I don't feel a personal, uh, targeting necessarily within myself.

There are other people who I am very [00:13:00] aware of and, and I know, again, personal stories where they are personally targeted. Um, and that I don't feel that personal, like I've had, you know, I've had like one helicopter experience of, and it was, it was a. Three or four years ago where it was like clear I was in a heightened state of consciousness.

Black helicopter showed up. That's kind of a classic. Thing. I've, I've only had that one time that I, I've had helicopters show up and I've had other people suggest that it was, they were black helicopters and it was related to my frequency, but I couldn't say for sure if that was just fantasy or if that was accurate.

There was one time where I was like, okay, there is a helicopter outside my room. It's the middle of the night. It is hovering like that is, and I was in a heightened state so that. Is really the only thing that I can say with certainty. And still there's a little bit of like, nah, I [00:14:00] mean you can I be a hundred percent certain?

I would say you can't really, and if you don't actually know for sure, but I've talked about the shadow ways that the suppression that happens on YouTube. I mean, you can look through, especially my lives, you can see that. There was for a while, for quite a while, hundreds of views, and then it's gone down to double digits and that just, there was like a cliff.

I think that that could be a, a targeting behind the scenes, but also I know that a lot that, you know, podcasters are experiencing this where there. Podcasting has just become so big that there are a lot of new players on the market and there are players who already have massive followings and they start a podcast and then, you know, everybody just, they only have so much time.

So it [00:15:00] could, I mean, there are legitimate ways that that could account for drops in numbers. And again, it's happening across the board. For a lot of, a lot of people anyway. Um, so again, it's kind of like, well that could be indication of targeting, but it also could just be a byproduct of all these new players.

But I have had a lot of PR companies reaching out to me lately and this has my attention or I'm getting a lot of notifications of people who want me to. Schedule a call because they see such potential and their company has grown these household names, and they see such potential with what I'm doing, so let's just have a call.

And it's tempting. It's tempting to say, oh, well, you know, I want my message to get out there. I want it to be easier to reach people, but. [00:16:00] When I really feel into that, what I feel is E because there is the chance that those are agents or some of them are agents, it's, it's a possibility that those are not PR companies, but they are agents.

And if you, if you say, yeah, okay, let's meet, then you wade into waters that you might not wanna wade into. That's a possibility. Again, I'm not saying that's what this is, but I'm aware that that of the potential. But even if it's not, even if it's a purely a PR company, fancy Manhattan address, um, legitimate address, you know, and, and what does that do to me as a content creator when I don't have anybody who is tele influencing me?

By choice. I mean, I still get even on YouTube, it's like, what? Look for [00:17:00] inspiration. What are pe? What are people who are putting content out like yours? What are their videos doing that? Like, what are the topics that people wanna hear about? I'm not even utilizing that stuff. I am connecting to my own intuition, my own guides, feeling that inspiration, feeling what wants to be shared in the moment.

And going with that and trusting that and being a transmitter for what I feel is pure and letting that guide me. And if I engage with an external group, how much do I just compromise what I feel I'm here to do in order to chase numbers, in order to chase subscribers or followers or likes? And it's tempting.

It's tempting. I mean, anybody could come to me and say, you have a strong message and it's really important and people [00:18:00] need to hear it, and more people need to hear it, and we've got the codes to be able to take you further. How easy is it to tell myself that, okay, well what I really care about is my message.

And so I'm going to hand this over and I'm just gonna let them tell me what to do, and then how does that impact my message? If I feel like I need to talk to you today about the dark night of the soul, because I've experienced it just yesterday and I'm experiencing it with the times that we're in. And I do wanna get to kind of how I came out to that, out of that.

So I need to circle this back, but if I feel that, because a lot of times. I, I will just kind of go with what I'm inspired to say, and it's not until after I've said it and the episode's been out there that I start hearing from people about how poignant it was for them and how it felt like it was exactly what they needed to hear at the time.[00:19:00] 

If I am then putting an intermediary in there who's worried about numbers and worried about popularity and fame or whatever it might be. Then I'm not being true to why I'm here, and so I'm just trusting that even if I am only reaching one person, that that's what I'm here for. I'm just putting these things out there and letting the universe do with it what's needed without allow.

There's so many different ways that we can become compromised. And it doesn't have to be a CIA operative for us to become compromised. It can be our own psychology, and where there's really something underneath, you know, really we want the fame, we want the popularity, we want the validation, but we're gonna tell ourselves it's about the [00:20:00] message, but the message gets compromised because we're worried about what.

What the algorithms say people wanna hear. And then we're not saying anything original. We're not saying anything through our hearts. We're not saying anything inspired. We're just repeating what an algorithm wants us to tell you. And I'm a human being. I'm a human, and I'm gonna trust the algorithm within me over that.

So. What I do, again, I wanna circle back to, um, that dark night of the soul that I was feeling and, and you know, I'm using that term loosely because, you know, dark night at night of the soul's really gonna pull you down and it can take a lot longer to get out of it. And I, I don't, wouldn't necessarily say that I'm like free and clear, but I feel more like myself today than I did yesterday.

Like I said, I could feel this darkness just almost like I could touch it and it felt like it was closing in around me, and I could [00:21:00] feel the temptation to just let it pull me under and just go into the feeling that it's hopeless. Maybe everybody. Is maybe, maybe satanism isn't that big of a deal, you know, that type of thing.

Like, God, if they're normalizing this and they're just talking about it, like it's nothing. What is that like to be in that mentality? Like what is that? Is I, I don't know. Just all these thoughts that I was so confused and I was so like. How can that, how can they live like that? Like how, so I'm trying to understand it and kind of like almost empathize, almost feel into what that feels like.

But I really had to recog one, recognize what was happening, not just let my thoughts get away from me and let myself just spiral. I had to recognize, okay, I can feel. This doesn't feel good. I [00:22:00] can feel that things are spiraling. I can feel this oppression, this oppressive energy coming into me. So that was step one, just noticing that it was happening.

Step two honestly, was invoking Archangel Michael, invoking Yeshu, Jesus Christ, invoking my higher self, and knowing that I have. A divine team who is actively supporting me and who is there to intercede on my behalf. And so it was saying all hands on deck. I invite you in, I ask you on my behalf to help me slay these demons that are circling me.

Picturing Archangel Michael. All around me just replicated Archangel Michael with the huge sword and [00:23:00] you know, uh, just all of the defenses. And in that there is alchemy. And alchemy is when we take something, you know, we can think about alchemizing medals, the famous pursuit of alchemizing lead into gold.

Having a formula that turns lead into gold. And so it was recognizing, I don't like this feeling, but I can use it. So whatever there is, let me, let me turn this scary, this oppressive, this sad, this fearful energy that I'm experiencing. And let me turn it into a vital life force, turn it into something useful within me, turn it into lessons, turn it into wisdom, and [00:24:00] that is the opportunity that we have with it.

You know, that is spiritual alchemy. To be able to take whatever shows up and however it makes us feel, and to recognize that we. Have the final say. We do not have to be pulled around by our thoughts, negative fantasies, future potential disasters, whatever it is that we are getting consumed by. That is not the final say you.

Are a divine being, and I hope that you understand just how powerful your consciousness is. So don't give up. Don't give in. When these things show up, know how powerful you are. Use it. Use these things that show up [00:25:00] as the fuel. For your ascension, for you to become wiser, for you to become stronger, for you to really remember and experience the power within you to overcome anything.

So I'm gonna leave you with that. I thank you so much for being here. Bless you, and I will see you next time. 

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