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What is Spiritual Awakening?
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What is spiritual awakening?
The true meaning of spiritual awakening, as it has been known classically in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is the waking up of consciousness to the remembrance of its original nature. It is a movement of the psyche where the individual sense of self-identification has fallen away, and awareness stands with nothing to identify itself, and yet it knows itself as being aware. It is like moving from being a noun to a verb. Instead of being some one, we know we are aware-ing, sensing, thinking, feeling or being whatever movement is happening in this one moment. At the same time the physical body/mind has become irrelevant. It is there in a relative sense, perhaps still and empty, or perhaps blissful, but one is no longer identified as this. Waking up to our true nature is the first step toward liberation.
So I've had a lot of personal experiences with the spiritual awakening stages, I'm still on a journey. Has anyone else heard of this before? Been through it? If not, does it interest you or does it just sound crazy to you? Everyone has their own perspective of it, but you should try and leave an open mind to it. If you want to look into it a bit more, I'll leave a link for a YouTube Channel that helps explain a lot of it in segments.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritScience
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The true meaning of spiritual awakening, as it has been known classically in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is the waking up of consciousness to the remembrance of its original nature. It is a movement of the psyche where the individual sense of self-identification has fallen away, and awareness stands with nothing to identify itself, and yet it knows itself as being aware. It is like moving from being a noun to a verb. Instead of being some one, we know we are aware-ing, sensing, thinking, feeling or being whatever movement is happening in this one moment. At the same time the physical body/mind has become irrelevant. It is there in a relative sense, perhaps still and empty, or perhaps blissful, but one is no longer identified as this. Waking up to our true nature is the first step toward liberation.
So I've had a lot of personal experiences with the spiritual awakening stages, I'm still on a journey. Has anyone else heard of this before? Been through it? If not, does it interest you or does it just sound crazy to you? Everyone has their own perspective of it, but you should try and leave an open mind to it. If you want to look into it a bit more, I'll leave a link for a YouTube Channel that helps explain a lot of it in segments.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSpiritScience
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All I know is that TheSpiritScience did that Hidden Human History video which was complete and utter nonsense.
That sounds like Plato and the whole idea of true forms. For example, somewhere in another realm of existence there is the true form of a computer. The perfect example of a computer, of which all physical computers are just imperfect copies of.
So there is the true form of the mind as well, it's original form, and nature.
I don't believe this though, I see the mind like I see a ball of clay, from birth it is moulded and changed in different ways depending on your experiences.
You can't revert to a way of thinking, or have awareness of something, which hasn't already happened to you.
It doesn't sound crazy to me, but if it can happen, I don't think it's as transcendent or incredible as the English language allows it to sound, just an epiphany of something about the way the world works based on evidence all around us.
The waking up of consciousness to the remembrance of its original nature.
That sounds like Plato and the whole idea of true forms. For example, somewhere in another realm of existence there is the true form of a computer. The perfect example of a computer, of which all physical computers are just imperfect copies of.
So there is the true form of the mind as well, it's original form, and nature.
I don't believe this though, I see the mind like I see a ball of clay, from birth it is moulded and changed in different ways depending on your experiences.
You can't revert to a way of thinking, or have awareness of something, which hasn't already happened to you.
It doesn't sound crazy to me, but if it can happen, I don't think it's as transcendent or incredible as the English language allows it to sound, just an epiphany of something about the way the world works based on evidence all around us.
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Leave an eye open for other peoples perspectives though, my friend. I like to look at life through the eye of the eagle in the sky, looking at everyone as one. I do believe humanity has drifted off from reality into a world of distractions and technology.
But yes, great opinion and perspective as ever.
Have a good day
But yes, great opinion and perspective as ever.
Have a good day
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What you call 'Spiritual awakening' i call thinking objectively rather than subjectively, being aware of ones self and ones surroundings doesn't imply anything spiritual. It's like wiping your eyes after you've slept, When you clear your view you can see clearly. The entire 'Spiritual' thing is completely debatable and just like religion as we learn more it slowly fades away. 'Spirituality' has to assume that there is something more to consciousness than just the brain. When in reality that's all we are. I've found that those who don't like that look to religion and spirituality to find comfort in that there is *supposedly* something more no matter how ludicrous or hypocritical their choice is.
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The relation to the spirit world is that we are our souls, we are essentially spirits. The idea is that when we die, we only die in our physical body and the conscious spirit moves on to the 'void', where their you can do the impossible, like form matter. You should look into it but it really goes into depths.
Buddhism is the closest religion that I know of that relates to spirituality. Buddhists tradition has a very peaceful and blissful mindset, telling you to slow down in life, ignore the worry in the mind and live in the now... Doing this can effectively connect you to Mother Earth.
I know it sounds really off-scale from reality but reality is a lot different to what a lot of people think, too many gadgets have us distracted from the nature in life and the actual potential we as one have.
Or you could call me a fool and laugh about it.
It's on you...
Buddhism is the closest religion that I know of that relates to spirituality. Buddhists tradition has a very peaceful and blissful mindset, telling you to slow down in life, ignore the worry in the mind and live in the now... Doing this can effectively connect you to Mother Earth.
I know it sounds really off-scale from reality but reality is a lot different to what a lot of people think, too many gadgets have us distracted from the nature in life and the actual potential we as one have.
Or you could call me a fool and laugh about it.
It's on you...
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