The Waking

I’ve written a couple of these blogs about transcendent personal experiences while meditating, mainly to give an idea of the sorts of experiences that are possible, particularly if spiritual awakening is on your mind. I said very little about longer term implications and now seems like a good time to say more about that in the hope that it will be helpful to those wondering about the direction to take in their life. I mentioned a kundalini experience from decades ago that had a profound effect on me, not least in terms of taking up a meditation practice which has only deepened over the years and been one of the most positive influences in my life. (see the blog ‘A kundalini experience while meditating’, 11th February 2023) On the other hand I had another profound but different experience about five years after that, only this time I did not follow it up and yet it is the only time in my life when I had a very clear and transcendent vision. I’ve never written about it before and only me...

Don’t take this blog post seriously - it’s just me speculating out loud about a more universal context for awakening experiences. So imagine: You are the universe / everything that is / infinite mind / God / the Tao (take your pick). You wonder about your potential. To find out, you create levels or layers of yourself. You finally explode into physical form in the singularity that will eventually be known as the ‘Big Bang’. Every level is a manifestation of your being and awareness. At the densest level there is enough consciousness to experience, but this level is so dense that the life forms you manifest come to experience themselves as separate entities that are alone and unsure about where they came from. You (still oneness) are aware of that experience. Some of these life forms notice that, when they look inside themselves, they can catch glimpses of their origin. In other words, you created a mirror and looked at yourself. Now you are one and also not one. Now what? In this view,...