Depending on how traumatic the shock is, we'll enter into anything from 'spaciness' to the Permanent Vocation of Psychosis. The initiatory nature of the Dark Night is now explicit. Alli sees the actual initiation in the rebirth aspect of the process. The death aspect occurs when the soul flees the body, and the individual is 'reborn' when the soul is recovered.
Initiation is a creative response to the shock of the unknown.
One creative way to respond to shock is by reconnecting ourselves to new habits and routines which increase our intelligence and make us happy. During the phase of our disconnection, we are perhaps most vulnerable to impressions and suggestions from ourselves and others.