Spiritual Awakening Moments

Question 2: Was there an awakening moment that launched you on your path?

Only one respondent fell into the traditional enlightenment category in which he described his ‘I’ perception disappearing from one day to the next. For most, awakening is a series of ‘cracking open’ events as one respondent described this experience so well. Still 22 (out of 37) participants remembered one particular event that towered over everything else. The catalysts of awakening are numerous, illness, drugs, passing of a loved one, divorce, addiction, lost twin love, guidance of a guru, discovery of metaphysical talents, near-death experience, dramatic revelation, satori moment, and kundalini awakening:

One respondent put her awakening experience in the following way: ‘The floor actually seemed to fall out underneath me, landing exactly where I had always been but with no perception that there was a separate me doing it.”

One respondent experienced a vision of Oneness involving food: ‘I saw a hamburger, and was shown how it is filled in different countries, even a German one. I got it, there is one base, the core, and different religions add to it. There is only one God. Boom, after this thought I was filled with such peace, light, it’s beyond words. I just knew that it was our Divine Home. It lasted only a short while.

One respondent had a major spiritual break-through during a near-death experience as a child. In her words, ‘The Angels have been with me since and have been guiding me in my choices. I was 3 years old when this happened but not until my teens did I become fully aware that no one I ever met saw what I saw. So I thought for a while that something was wrong with me and I became silent.’

One woman had a major awakening break-through around the passing of a loved one. ‘My greatest healing revelation came about 20 years ago. I was talking to a close friend on the phone. At the time his wife and my friend as well were near-death and we were supporting each other. At the moment of her transition we both felt her presence and out of nowhere I had a revelation and a profound clarity that ‘I’ was not this person. At that moment all guilt, shame, feelings of failure and every conscious belief vanished from my mind.’

One participant was catapulted to new heights of Consciousness with the help of a guru. In her words, ‘I visited Sai Baba’s ashram, spending 4 months with him. I quickly experienced complete and inner renunciation.’

One participant had a major break-through moment while acting. In his words, ‘I lost myself in a character far from the role I had been playing my entire life. This fragility scared me and for years I questioned what I felt.’

Another friend’s awakening journey started when he was smoking marihuana: ‘I thought I was going to die, but it was my Awakening and now nothing can stop me.’

And as already mentioned, awakening can happen with soul-wrenching losses as well. ‘I have always been very connected with my Angelic team and Spirit. However, a lifetime of living with fearful abusive humans assisted in shutting a lot down. When my dad committed suicide in 2011 was a huge cracking open moment. I began to reconnect with spirits of those who had left form very intensely at his time. I also went through another big Ascension launch in 2012 when I finally gathered up the courage to leave my painful and abusive 20 year marriage.’

One respondent experienced a revelation while working his shift. ‘After having been involved in a Christian cult for 35 years which is now in the process of imploding, my path led me to A Course in Miracles soon thereafter while still driving a San Diego city bus, I was commissioned by a dramatic revelation.’