A spectrum of awareness

 Stage 1: trigger moments 

We all know how it feels to be unconscious. Someone cuts us off in traffic and out comes the finger. It’s almost an instinctive trigger response.

 

Stage 2: self-awareness

Being self-aware is the next stage. We may follow our ego craving, but it is deliberate instead of instinctive. A little smile. A conscious dance with the other and our self.

 

Stage 3: conscious connection with Awareness 

There might be a conscious connecting with the higher energies. In S (erenity) and E (nergy), there is a conscious breathing to still the mind and open the chakras; in L (ove) F (low) there is an external connecting with the higher prevailing energies. S E L F takes over as we consciously drop our self.

 

Stage 4: Awareness prevails—let God

Similar to stage 1 when instinct rules, we are not really in charge of what happens. Different from that case though, we are conscious of the fact that we operate in a higher dimension. The higher prevailing energies simply flow through us and we let God. Different from stage 3 though, we no longer let go as we let God since we already operate in the higher dimension.

 

Stage 5: Awareness prevails—the disappearance of the universe 

That’s the highest form of Awareness that I have experienced, the “I Am That I Am” state. Dreamlike, we sit at the center of the circle, “being, consciousness, bliss” flowing through us. The inner commentator shuts up. The feelings are uniform, blissful but also non-addictive. When we finally return back to earth it’s a natural transition.