As We Awaken . . .
As we awaken spiritually we become more conscious and aware. We begin to see and understand more about what is going on around us. We become more consciously “present” in the present.
As we continue to awaken we begin the process of unifying our self, our consciousness, with the ”rest” of the world. We start to heal the illusion of separation that exists between our self and the world, the world we have believed - falsely - to be separate, distinct and apart from us.
Until we begin to awaken, we are unconscious most of the time, living life inside our “head.” For the most part, we are lost and absorbed in a private world of our own, our thoughts often centering on the past or the future. At this stage, we are often completely unaware that everything that exists is connected. Or that everyone in the world is another “me.” Read the rest of this entry »
In this Category, you are learning to look for, read and interpret, the guidance that is available to us all of the time, from Spirit; indeed, from the whole Spirit Realm as we are gently guided and drawn into Unity Consciousness.
You have already been introduced to the idea - more than once if you are a regular visitor to this site! - that everything that you believe is “out there” in the world, is actually a manifestation of your psyche: your own inner world, or inner landscape. Yet, you need to see and experience this truth for yourself: that your outer and inner worlds are inextricably linked. The overall aim of this Category, therefore, is to assist you to see in a new way, so that you become more spiritually awakened and aware.
Unfortunately, until we attain Unity Consciousness (Enlightenment) we suffer under the illusion that we are a separate being, separate and apart from everyone and everything else in existence. It all seems a bit of a tangle, but I assure you, you can and will awaken from the dream of separation if you want to. Think of it this way: at present you are probably, mostly, seeing everything through a pair of dark glasses that have obscured your vision, but, you are starting to remove them.
Whenever I’m about to begin a project of a spiritual nature, I usually see Flights of Angels with my third-eye vision. My favourite way to see angels, however, is to see them formed from clouds, especially when there are legions of them! The appearance of flights of angels in the clouds is very amusing, because obviously, they are visible to everyone else in the vicinity if they happen to lift their eyes to the sky.
The last time I saw a Flight of Cloud-Angels was towards the end of November last year. I had closed down my spiritual workshops (classes based on the teachings contained in A Course in Miracles) the previous February because I knew I needed to complete my spiritual journey alone. I also knew that the group I had been working with also needed to complete their journey alone. I was quite content about this because I understood that that part of my spiritual work and journey was over and that if there was anything else for me to do of a teaching nature, then an idea or an opportunity would present itself.
One of the secrets of alchemy is that what is “out there” in the physical world can’t be separated from what’s inside our head. To put it another way, the physical, material world, is a manifestation of our psyche: they are different manifestations of one and the same thing. So, if we want to be reunited with Creation, if we want to achieve what many call Unity Consciousness, then the physical world and our psyche must somehow unify and this unification can only occur within our own psyche.
Evidence of Oneness.
The process of unifying our inner and outer “worlds” begins when we start to perceive that there is actually a link between them. The evidence of this starts to come to us in the form of coincidences, synchronicities, signs, and various other messages or indications that we perceive and experience, that demonstrate to us that the Universe is responding to, and/or communicating with us, personally. This evidence increases and becomes ever more personal, the more we look for it.
This article is to introduce my new Category, ” Journal of Awakening” which will have as its focus, How to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance (actually, I tend to think of Spirit as being The Great Mother, or, The Goddess, so I’ll probably use these terms interchangeably.) I’ll be using my own personal experiences for illustration purposes, but, of course, you will have your own personal experiences and adventures with The Goddess which will be tailored to you and your needs and requirements.
Our Great Mother is always trying to guide us, but we don’t realize this because we’re not usually paying Her any attention. We are usually too busy paying attention to another guide: our ego, that dazzlingly deluded creation of our thinking mind that thinks it’s an expert on everything! (Well, mine thinks it’s an expert on everything, I don’t know about yours.)
Learning to Recognize and Follow Spirit’s Guidance is a Practice and a Discipline.
Learning how to recognize and follow Spirit’s guidance is a practice, a discipline, and it marks a new stage of accelerated growth and awakening for us. It’s also a practice which, ultimately, frees us from being dependent on any other person for guidance - persons such as myself. Unfortunately, we often only turn to Spirit for leadership and guidance when we realize how incapable our ego-mind is in protecting us and leading us towards wholeness and joy. As I discussed in my article, “Initiation: Crucifixion, Death and Resurrection,” we sometimes need to reach a very low point in our life before we’ll admit to ourselves that we need a higher, wiser, form of guidance than our own thinking, rational mind has been providing us with.
If you have reached this point you will know it, because you will know that you need help. This marks the beginning of wisdom for us: we are finally ready to admit that we can’t go it alone! Now, we start to look for our Divine Mother to lead us towards wholeness, safety and joy.
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