Spiritual awakening

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I can't imagine enlightenment ever being a bad thing.

To me it has bad connotations because, in my mind, it implies that someone was in a dark place of vulnerability and needed something to fill a void and give them hope. Actually, now that I type that out I suppose it isn't such a bad thing. Not of fan of zealots, though.

I think people protest thing spiritual because it reminds them that they are really, really, really, really a small spec in the universe, that they really don't know the meaning of life beyond what this single planet offers, they this life is short and temporal, and that there are many more things out of their control than they can control. It scares them so they protest too much, or they rightfully protest those who would try to impose their institutional doctrine on them instead of the personal spiritual relationship one should have within themselves. But even there, spiritual awakening isn't about religion even. It is about those moments you do discover or come to grips with your place in the universe, or in this world, or even just small actualizations of yourself.

All good things to me.
Sad so many fight it.

I was in a state of constant pain and suffering two years ago and then I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I don't describe myself as enlightened for that feels like another mind identified state. My current state of consciousness has transcended my former state of always listening and believing the voice in my head. Meditation has helped me see my thoughts as just thoughts and it's a much more peaceful state of Being.

Had too many spirits the other night and awoke with a hangover.

newmeadow wrote: »

OP could this spiritual awakening be linked in any way to the subject matter of the other thread you've authored at MFP?

I wondered this exact same thing.