Dear Alan, >> In thinking of ways to link between my practices of Self-Healing Archaeous and IIH, I thought about the room impregnation of Step 3. Could this be used to alert you to someone coming to interrupt you? << Yes, I suppose it could be. However, I think it would be more profitable and more practical to impregnate your room in such a way as to discourage folks from interrupting you. >> Anyway, if this could be used, would one use the positive or negative fire element? I'm guessing that I've been using a neutral fire element (so to speak) while performing the accumulation exercise. If this is so, I'm assuming all one would need to do is impress the visualization with the idea that it would be destructive to bacteria and germs and thus would need to use the negative fire element. << I suggest that you experiment. :) >> I was wondering if you could elaborate further on what the "dark night of the soul" is or maybe at least why it is experienced. << The term "dark night of the soul" is used to describe the period after one has crossed the Abyss and has experienced the eternal perspective. This experience is very disorienting to the personal, temporal layers of Self. Symptoms at the personal level are feelings of "why bother?", "what's the point?", etc. The initiate must reconcile the eternal and temporal perspectives and arrive at reasons for continuing their temporal existence. My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 30 Oct 2003 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe