The Waking

    I’ve had a couple of goes at this topic before – first back in April 2023 in https://herethewaking.blogspot.com/2023/04/what-is-awakening.html where I was mainly encouraging people away from the idea that it is very difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people to awaken. The next time was in https://herethewaking.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-is-enlightenment-and-how-do-we.html where I wrote a bit about taking the process further and mentioned shifts in self-identity and a tiny bit on the nature of awareness. In this blog I look at some of the many and varied definitions of awakening and enlightenment, and suggest that they may be drawn together through a unifying experience. I have tried to keep it relatively brief so that it is hopefully an accessible suggestion that people could explore and try for themselves. There are many ways of defining awakening and enlightenment. Below I have summarised a few of the main ones. In addition, although I have sometime...

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,...