I am a recently awakened human being. On the 10th
of December 2014, in my 40th year, I experienced what I have since
researched to be a Satori moment: a massive and almost overwhelming shift in
consciousness. In a split second my mind opened up to the infinite
possibilities of existence. Until that moment I had dismissed accounts of people
hearing voices as delusional fantasies. I had always struggled with this
concept mainly because it suggests that this is something that you experience
with your physical senses, specifically your sense of hearing. What people having
these experiences fail to explain is that it simply feels as real as if someone were talking, or in my case shouting,
in your ear. On December 10th 2014 I had the experience of a voice,
my own to be precise, shouting in my ear: “Wake up!”
This is not a metaphor. I am relating this as it happened to
me.
Anyone reading this who has not had a similar experience
will most likely also label me as delusional, simply because it is not possible
to truly conceive of other possible realities from the perspective of the one
you are in.
This is how I lived my life for 40 years, thinking that
reality is exactly that: Reality. Meaning that things are the way they are and
anything that I had not experienced with my five physical senses could not form
part of that reality. Anyone claiming to have had experiences outside of these
physical dimensions, anything from paranormal activity to spirituality, were in
my estimation, slightly nuts and generally to be avoided.
I had always considered myself an atheist, the existence of
God in this randomly chaotic world about as convincing as the existence of the
Easter Bunny. In that one moment, all of that changed and I instantly
understood religion, its function and why people think they need it. At the
same time I understood that religion is simply one possible connection to an unlimited
power that has been given various labels over countless centuries. And I
instantly realized how every piece of our infinite universe is connected to
this source and to every other piece.
This is my first attempt at a blog and I would like to make
it clear from the outset that I have no intention of attempting to sell
anything to any readers who may come across these words. I certainly have no
interest in selling anyone on a new way of looking at the world if they aren’t
searching for one, as I have experienced how frustrating that can be from the
other side of the equation.
My only intention is to share these words online for the
benefit of anyone who does happen to be searching for answers and may find some
value here. I am hoping to make this a daily blog presenting complex concepts
that have been discussed for centuries, while attempting to simplify them in a
way that I might have understood on the 9th of December 2014.
I hope you will join me.
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