Joel Goldsmith: "No Self Remains" - The Dark Night That Extinguishes Human Pride | The Infinite Way

👀 What if the spiritual life isn't about becoming "more loving" but about dying to everything you thought love was? In this profound 1965 London teaching, Joel Goldsmith reveals the mystical truth that destroys spiritual seekers: true healing requires such complete emotional insulation that the world calls you cold—while inside, you burn with love for God alone. #JoelGoldsmith #InfiniteWay #MysticLife #SpiritualAwakening #ChristConsciousness In this transformative mystical teaching, you'll discover: 🟡 Why the spiritual path begins with self-deception—believing God will reward YOUR self with peace and protection 🟡 The dark night of the soul: when spiritual pride must die and no self remains to glorify itself 🟡 Joel's shocking truth: effective healers must be "cold-blooded" on the outside, overheated with God-love inside 🟡 The monastic life of spiritual insulation—living in the world but completely detached from human emotion 🟡 Why God's love means forgiving 70×70×7 times—never holding anyone in condemnation for their sins 🟡 The practitioner's secret: how emotional detachment (not sympathy) produces actual healing Joel delivers one of his most uncompromising Infinite Way teachings on why human goodness must be extinguished before divine love can flow. The Revolutionary Insight: We enter spiritual practice thinking we'll become better humans—more loving, more peaceful, more blessed. But Joel reveals the horrifying truth: "The self may not advance through spirit. The self may not be glorified or pleased with itself. The Cold-Blooded Healer Story: A dying woman's husband demanded Joel come to their home immediately. Joel refused: The husband saw him as cruel. By next morning, his wife sat up eating breakfast. She became one of the most successful practitioners in America—known as "the coldest woman in America." But she isn't cold. She's insulated from human emotion so she can see Christ where others see disease. The Monastic Life Revealed: Joel explains the spiritual insulation that makes mystics "difficult to live or work with"—the inability to fuse emotionally even with family. This isn't cruelty—it's the capacity to love universally without the drain of personal emotion. Practical Applications: ✨ Understanding why sympathy and pity actually block spiritual healing ✨ Learning to see Christ through appearances of sin, disease, and death ✨ Practicing non-judgmental love that forgives without condoning ✨ Recognizing when spiritual pride disguises itself as spiritual progress The Hitler Test: Joel shares how students questioned why he had no hatred for Hitler despite knowing the horrors through underground resistance connections. His response: "I'm a practitioner, a healer. How do I know? Tomorrow he may call for help. What could I say to him? Yesterday I wished you were dead, but today I'll tell you you're a spiritual being?" God's Real Nature: "God is nothing like what men think him to be. God's love knows no emotion and no pity. But God's love is universal." This God doesn't punish sinners or reward the righteous—the rain falls on just and unjust alike. The Master's Example: Jesus walked through crowds of sick and poor people lining the roadsides, "looking neither to right nor left except as someone ran out from the throng and sought him." He didn't stop to pity everyone—he held himself above the appearances. 🍿 INFINITE WAY TIMELINE 0:00 - Introduction: Why Joel Shouldn't Have Come Tonight 2:45 - The Human Self Question: Why Infinite Way Stresses It 5:30 - Human Selfhood's Vilest Qualities 9:15 - Students With No Reason for Living 12:40 - The Accountant Consciousness 15:50 - Living Inside the Body Tomb 19:25 - Joel's Next Incarnation: Branch Bank Manager 22:10 - The Mystic Life Article: Self-Deception 26:35 - Spiritual Path Promises to YOUR Self 29:50 - Satan Enters as Desire for More God 33:20 - The Long Nights of Struggle Begin 36:45 - Self Must Don Sackcloth and Ashes 40:15 - Dying Daily Starts Within 43:50 - God Forgives 70 Times 7 47:25 - Ministers Who Pray Enemies Be Killed 51:10 - The Monastic Life Article Begins 54:40 - Cut Off From Emotional Attachments 58:15 - The Cold-Blooded Practitioner Story 1:02:30 - Hitler Test: No Hatred for Evil 1:05:20 - God's Love: Universal, No Emotion 📼 Joel Goldsmith's most challenging Infinite Way teaching on why the self must be extinguished before God can live as you. 🧑🏽‍🤝‍👩🏼 Join spiritual seekers discovering that true love means holding no one in condemnation—seeing Christ even where the world sees only sin. Joel Goldsmith: "No Self Remains" - The Dark Night That Extinguishes Human Pride | The Infinite Way | 1956 Steinway Hall Closed Class | 0152A Subscribe for Infinite Way teachings Ideas are increased by sharing...please feel free to share, reach out & connect. Love you! 🪷🪷🪷 #MysticalTeaching #SpiritualRealization #DivineNature #SpiritualHealing #ContemplativePrayer #SpiritualPractice #InnerWisdom #SpiritualTruth #DarkNightOfTheSoul #DyingToSelf