Notions of Enlightenment

A take on what modern-day Enlightenment looks like

After spiritual awakening, there are strong desires for enlightenment, freedom of the ego mind, karma, and pain. Hopes to experience "complete healing” where there is a lack of suffering, separateness, discomfort, and negative thinking and how to share this with others to alleviate the sorrows of this level of consciousness. This very desire creates the will to seek this path of salvation but also generates egoic suffering of feeling on the outside of the gates of divinity after being immersed in moments of what feel like heavenly bliss, unity, and eternal love. However, the time in between these sporadic occurrences we must work through the ego's despair of not being able to maintain experience in these high states. The ego's desire to achieve these enlightened states can lead to feelings of being lost, confused, unworthy, and grief stricken with a heartache for the eternal.

In this walk back to one's God nature, gentle reminders are offered through the subtle guidance of intuition to help soften the gripping of the ego that is naïve in thinking it is what achieves this spiritual freedom. Our modern-day path of enlightenment begins when one sees that love is the truth of all existence, when one seeks to serve in love and to be served by it; to have even a moment of this divine recognition and a spark of spiritual awakening is Divine Will unlocking the gates to this path as it welcomes us to take our first steps on this inner journey of recognizing, we are already that which we seek. In this current human experience as the path of enlightenment unfolds, a higher spiritual state is not the absence of pain rather than the willingness to say Yes to all parts of the human experience, to forgive, let go of control, surrender to the will of God, to have the courage to hold space for the discomfort, the courage to be aware of our thinking patterns and refute our mind and our painful belief systems without getting totally taken over by them, the willingness to hold our broken hearts in love and compassion and to allow others to nurture us through the discomfort, to know one’s self more fully and deeply, to recognize and honor the unity of all creation, to allow one's self to be included in the love they give, and to let go of being overly independent so we can be vulnerable and ask for grace and help from others.

It is recognized now that the most beautiful, vulnerable, and exalted states of growth, spirituality, and enlightenment at this point in time is the willingness to be with it all, accept it all, surrender to it all, and to choose to continue loving and being compassionate time and time again even when life does not always seem to reflect that back to us. That is a state of enlightened living, hope, faith, and the ability to strengthen one's Will and desire to choose and learn from love and see the creator in all that is that transcends duality, a notion of separateness, and the veil of forgetting our true essence. The seeking now creates space to have a Will that does not waver or collapse under temporary disillusionment of false beliefs, pain, fear, guilt, or shame and to work through what is being called to be healed within consciousness until one can fully rest in God again. This is the nectar of this path that offers a calming effect to the ego that tries to hasten up the progress and accomplishment of salvation as it tries to escape an imaginary prison it created for itself. May we all find this truth and acceptance and make space for the work in consciousness that is needed while doting on the imperfection and the perfection of this life experience, we call being Human.

Hand in hand may we walk with one another as we lead ourselves back to our true eternal essence.