Scrooge’s Dark Night of the Soul Proves that Narcissists Can Wake Up
Just like Scrooge, narcissists need a traumatic event to awaken and raise their vibration
One of my favorite stories of all time is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The main character in this story, Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Jim Carrey) goes through a transformation and has a spiritual awakening.
He is a grumpy, cruel, self-centered old man without friends — much like the narcissists in our lives. All he cares about is his money and how to get more of it.
Three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve to usher in his spiritual awakening through a shocking investigation into his life.
Scrooge is an unlikely sort of person to have an awakening.
His self-centered habits prevent him from seeing beauty in the world, let alone awakening to a new level of existence with knowledge of the unified consciousness. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the story to illustrate this:
“Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months…
