Daniel M. Ingram:
My worst Dark Night ever was the first Review cycle after stream entry: totally over the top, lasted a few hours, then dissipated, got a repeat Fruition, and then subsequent cycles still involved the stages, but they were not nearly as bad, and rapidly became a near non-issue, and I even called up the Dark Night stages just by naming the numbers in my head as I got good at them, like going on a roller coaster you bought a ticked for just to see what that felt like, and subsequent new Dark Nights were irritating but not as bad, and cycle after cycle they got better and better.
Would it be possible to generalize and say that cycling becomes gradually less bad the further one gets down the path 'til one gets to the stage where one is just riding up the arc like they do on KFD? Or does it not play out like this for everyone? My stream entry review cycling has really scared me about continuing at all with this....