Are You Beginning to Awaken?

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So you begin to sense, by what we’re sharing, this process whereby you keep making yourself smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller, taking on psychic patterns from the parents, from the peers, from the society around you. The spiritual path begins when, for some reason, something begins to whisper to you,

This is not who you are.

This is not why you’ve come.

You’ve come to heal your sense of separation from God.

You’ve come to realize the Truth.

Egoic consciousness, then, begins with the shock at the moment of conception that brings your attention to be completely fixated on, and as, the physiological form beginning to emerge from a certain web of relationship. This begins to color your vision, color your understanding. It gives you your unique individuality in the world. As you grow, as you emerge, as you move through certain experiences, you become colored by what you’ve had to do to survive. You become colored by the psychic imprints of those around you. You think you’re thinking your own thoughts, when what is often the case is that you’re merely parroting all that has come into your computer bank, into the brain and into the body.

Now, it is quite true that this all began because there was a resonance between the web of relationships of the parents, and of the society, and where your own unique quality of consciousness was, prior to birth. In this sense, karma can be said to exist. Karma simply means action, the effect of, so that when you drop a pebble in the pond, you create a certain ripple. As long as you continue that ripple, by dropping the same pebble in the pond, you get the same results. And part of those results is the need to be identified with only this vibrational field of energy called physicality.

Until you decide to change the momentum of the ripples you are creating in the depth of the mind, you cannot begin to ascend from the third dimension. The desire to do so is always within you. That is, it may be dormant, but the desire to know God must necessarily be within each soul, since God is your Reality. You have fallen asleep, and at some point, there comes the urge to awaken. When it comes, it is unmistakable. The fireworks may not occur, but a shift happens within your beingness and you know that you can never return to the way it was. You can never again pretend that life is only what you see through the senses.

Now, the soul begins to speak. The connection that was once lost begins to be re-established. It was never really lost, it was just forgotten, it was suppressed. It became the background instead of the foreground. It begins to whisper in the depth of your being. It comes to you in the form of your dreams. You begin to notice books that you never noticed before. You might wander into your New Age section of the bookstore, not even understanding what compelled you to do so. And there, you pick up a copy of The Jeshua Letters, or A Course in Miracles, or some other such book, that begin to trigger within you a thirst and a longing. A friend suddenly invites you to come to some funny workshop, the kind you’ve never been to before. And yet, when you go, something triggers you, something touches you. Something begins to awaken. You may not notice it, but it actually triggers a physiological state within the body, within what is called the chakra system. The heart begins to stir in its slumber. And the mind thirsts for knowledge, a knowledge unlike any that it has gathered in its identification with egoic consciousness.

The longing to awaken has come.