What Is Spiritual Awakening?

Spiritual awakening is the process by which you reach a state of experience which is commonly known as spiritual enlightenment and which is a deep and profound KNOWING of there being “something” to the universe beyond and above your self, your mind and it’s thoughts, your desires and dislikes, your feelings as negative and positive emotions, your body and its condition, and the outside world as the situation you are in, your vocation, family, friends and people in general, nature including animals, plants and minerals, and the human made material world.

I cannot currently express how living life in the enlightened state can be as I am not at such a state but from experience of the process of spiritual awakening I can express that it is possible to experience the enlightened state in the form of profound INSIGHTS (VISIONS) which can in a way create KNOWING (REALISATION) that there is more to the universe than the intellectual mind can comprehend.

The process of spiritual awakening is either chosen or forced upon you, but either way I believe that the choice has been made for you and not by what you think of as your self but more so a higher and expanded level of consciousness within your self that KNOWS a step into an unknown world needs to be taken.

From my own experience of the awakening process, progress of spiritual awakening can be delayed but cannot be reverted nor stopped, and I believe that once the process has commenced, and once you have had INSIGHTS and KNOWINGS, you really would not wish to revert or stop the process even though the journey can become a very painful exercise over and beyond any pain and suffering you experienced before.

The additional and somewhat new pain that you experience during the process of awakening is somewhat an illusion, as was the pain before the process of awakening, and that such pain is created by the undoing of what you thought you knew, and you will really KNOW this from the INSIGHTS that you have during the process of awakening.

Such pain is not actual physical pain even though it can be perceived as such but is more so and undoing of conditioning, beliefs, thoughts, desires and intellectual knowledge and the undoing of which the mind and it’s egoistic form will try to stop, as in some way, they, the mind and ego, want their existence to continue.

In the simplest and perhaps harshest terms, during the awakening process, what you think you know, will be utterly ripped apart, but when YOU really KNOW that, YOU will KNOW how to accept that and then in some way be able to kill YOUR self.

So, it can be said that the process of spiritual awakening is the undoing of conditioning, beliefs, thoughts, desires and intellectual knowledge, and comes with ever growing REALISATION and KNOWING that there is more to you and your world than you thought you knew.

Living Life With A REALISATION Of Spiritual Awakening And The Enlightened State:
From my (that word “my” is the ego kicking in again) research and practice of the process of spiritual awakening, there have been very few commonly known of humans to have lived life mostly or entirely with and of the KNOWING of the enlightened state but fortunately some of them have been documented and experienced to date and include in no specific order, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Rumi and of a more recent time construct, Eckhart Tolle.

I also believe that there probably have been and are many more humans experienced in the process of spiritual awakening and KNOWING of the enlightenment state whom have not been known of commonly, or perhaps only known of by a select few, or not known of at all.

I believe the construct of time has come where the requisite of human evolution is for humans to live life with a higher level of consciousness which does not mean that all humans needs to be enlightened now but more so need to awaken so that with all the pain and suffering in the world that is being experienced and known of, an acceptance of another way of living life needs to occur and perhaps is awaiting in the form of the next stage of human evolution, as a marvel.

I sometime ago saw the X-Men First Class movie that had a few words which somewhat expressed what I just said. See the extract from the movie below as an audio and visual pointer to the words above.