'Awakened' Articles
First aid for the newly awakened. You cannot go back. The mystics have a saying. Once having seen the unseen country, you cannot unsee it. You will have to accept that your only way is forward. When you discover some part of your life doesn’t make sense anymore, it’s just because your mind has cleared, and it didn’t actually make sense to you in the first place. It can happen suddenly or more gradually.
It is in your best interests to let it grow and flourish. Let your awareness move right up along side your normal daily experience.
“Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.” Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
“The darkness of ignorance has been dispelled, and my mind has been awakened; within the home of my inner being, I have found the genuine article.” Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him” William James (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
To Be Awakened
First aid for the newly awakened. What does it mean to be awakened? Much like mundane waking and sleep cycles, you go from a more narrow sensitivity to a broader one. So when you awaken spiritually/psychically, it can be a bit disorienting having to deal with a new range of awareness that just wasn’t in your experience before. You won’t start seeing “dead people” like in “The Sixth Sense“. No reason to fear your life will become a horror movie, but everything you see and feel, and every event that happens, will take on a whole new depth and context. Above… Seek More
Going Forward
When newly awakened and feeling alone and isolated, how would one reality check? First, sort out what is you and what is not you. When you feel alone you feel this awareness more. You will find that your sense of being alone is actually just not relating to things the way you used to, and no actual presences have vanished. They are in fact more available to you then they ever were before. But likewise for the newly awakened, the ruins of their old mental construct ideas are there still, and much more evident to your awareness. Like if you are… Seek More
Lifestyle Of The Newly Awakened
On to lifestyle. When newly awakened your old lifestyle will look like it’s a total mess. Like you went and ruined your life and it can seem like you will never recover. This isn’t true. Some parts of your old life will still feel the same, supportive and familiar. Other parts won’t feel bad, but they won’t make sense anymore. Yet others will just feel wrong and you will lose any liking for them. It will still seem like you’re losing your mind. You’re not. In fact, you have more of your mind than you did, and will discover that… Seek More
Nature Of Awakening
The nature of your awakening may differ from another person. For some, the awakening involves a relationship with the world and the spirits, the stars and the energies that form the foundation of reality. It feels like really entering the world for the first time. For others, their awakening may involve an expansion of pure consciousness, discovering that their minds have depths and realms of experience they never noticed before. Or the awakening of latent abilities? Psychic abilities? Yes. Like discovering you don’t just know what you are thinking, but you know what another person is thinking too. Almost like… Seek More
