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How to Go Within and Access the Priceless Guidance of Your Higher Self

Why is it Important to have a Strong Connection with your Higher Self

The Higher Self and Lower Self (Ego) are the two aspects of your Soul. The Ego is a mental construct your Soul creates in order to navigate within the illusion of separation during any lifetime in the material world. It is the “forward facing” sense driven aspect of the Soul and it is created from the moment you are born through mental programming and conditioning. The Ego is the tool the Soul uses to navigate its journey in the material world. 

Ego, in psychoanalytic theory, that portion of the human personality which is experienced as the “self” or “I” and is in contact with the external world through perception. It is said to be the part that remembers, evaluates, plans, and in other ways is responsive to and acts in the surrounding physical and social world.

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As we grow we create an image of who we are based on what is taught to us, what we learn on our own, and beliefs we adopt based on our experiences. It is this image that people experience as our personality. Over time we come to see “who we are” as being this set of programmed knowledge, beliefs, and positive and negative experiences. Our way of being and our life choices, small and large, mostly emanate from the desires and understanding of our Ego. Since our life in the material world is highly transitory and dynamically changing (new knowledge, new experiences), holding on too tightly to the definition of “You” that is the Ego, can be problematic. 

The Higher Self on the other hand is your Inner God and the Real and True You. The true power behind the transitory Ego. It is a fractal of the Source Creator and thus always in connection with the Source and has much of the same capabilities. The level of the capabilities varies depending on the particular Soul’s evolutionary level. When you finish graduating all the different Soul evolutionary levels (density or frequency levels in Law of One terms), you are reunited with Source at its frequency.

We can look at the Ego (and the body it directs) as being the vehicle or car that the Higher Self uses to travel within material reality. If the Ego takes all its direction from the Higher Self then our Soul is in good shape. If on the other hand the Ego is disconnected or loosely connected to the direction of the Higher Self, then this would be equivalent to you getting in your car and the car deciding on its own where it wanted to go and how to get there. Essentially, we would be Ego-Driven and not Soul-Driven.

To remedy this, the Higher Self creates the situations for Spiritual Awakening so that the communication channel between the externally focused conscious self (Ego Personality / Lower Self) and the Higher Self can firmly be established. 

Only the Higher Self can guide you on your path with the ideal choices in every situation. The Higher Self is the Immortal You, your Spiritual Essence traveling from life time to life time, versus the temporary Ego Personality of your current life. The Higher Self knows the path you should travel in your life and the choices to make so that you have the optimum experiences for Soul growth.  It is the best personal GPS that you could use as it knows exactly which turns in life’s path result in the highest good.  

Ideally, you (the Ego-Personality) would be in complete alignment with your Higher Self and its priceless guidance, insight, and information. Not having a strong connection with your Higher Self on the other hand, is like having a computer that’s not connected to the internet. You can certainly get some things done, but it’s a lot more difficult, a lot slower, and you make many more mistakes. This is why most spiritual traditions emphasize that one must “Go Within to Find Out Who You Really Are”.  It’s the most meaningful thing one can do and allows a person to be the best version of themselves possible.

Why is it Important to be in Alignment with your Higher Self

It is the lack of alignment with our Higher Self’s will and guidance which ends up having us fail to achieve our objectives in any given life time. We become Ego Driven rather than Soul Driven and end up not learning the life lessons which would evolve our Soul to the next highest level. So we come back, life time after life time, trying to learn the same lessons. [Our objectives for stages in our Soul Evolution are covered in great depth in the Law of One material. See my article – Being Soul Driven and Reclaiming Your Super Powers – for more information.]

Even if you haven’t yet established a strong communication link with your Higher Self  – it is always attempting to communicate with your Ego through emotional (energy-in-motion) feelings, intuition, and synchronicities. Inspiration (In-Spirit) in addition, is your Higher Self providing you with nudges in the right direction. Some people come to engage with this communication better than others as they gain confidence in their “gut hunches” or intuitive feelings in various situations or times of critical decision making. 

The Higher Self will also provide Catalysts for Growth. These are situations and experiences that will provide the opportunity for the Ego-Personality to make a course-correction in its way of being or approach to life so that true Soul progression can occur. Some times these catalysts can be quite difficult as the Higher Self finds no other way to get the Ego’s attention. These would include unpleasant things in life such as a health crisis, job loss, or relationship issue. Things that prompt a person to pause, reflect, and often ask – what am I doing wrong and what needs to change?

If we were to create a strong communication connection with our Higher Self these catalysts would be less necessary as we would be having an on-going dialogue with our Higher Self and know what we need to do differently, before things go too far off track. We would course correct as we progress through life much more smoothly than if we are just left banging around with our Ego in the lead. 

Importantly, intuition, hunches, and synchronicities are good, but they are inefficient. Too much is left up to the hope that we recognize them for what they are and that we interpret them correctly. What would be much more effective and meaningful is if we could have clear and consistent communication – an instantaneous telepathic dialogue – with our Higher Self whenever we wanted it.  It would then be a 24/7 guide to every aspect of our life – one which could provide clear information and guidance which is always aligned with our highest good. We could ask and know information that’s beyond the limitations of the rational mind for every decision we make daily – from the small to the life altering. We could be told the truth about any piece of information or any person’s true intentions we come across. We would no longer be able to be fooled. Imagine a society where everyone was Soul Driven – no one could lie any longer as it wouldn’t work [and more importantly, they wouldn’t lie in the first place as that is a specialty of the Ego…]. And in a world of ever increasing data, information, product choices, and constant connection this skill has never been more important. 

The Joy of Being Soul Driven

So a good question is what does being in close and active communication with the Higher Self look like in practice? The Higher Self can see all possibilities and probabilities into the future. You then can know among a set of choices for a decision or situation, what will be the ideal choice that will yield the highest satisfaction or results. Whereas if you did not access the direction of the Higher Self, you may pick a sub optimal choice which may in fact take you in the wrong direction. Wrong in the sense that it would yield sub optimal results for satisfaction but also for Soul Evolution. It also may not provide you with the learning experiences you need. If you do go down a wrong path for significant items (versus you got the wrong thing for lunch) your Higher Self will try to course correct and arrange for new options and opportunities that allow you to get back on track. But there again, you will only take on those new options if you are tuned into and communicating clearly with your Higher Self. 

One of the key things to increase the odds is to always ask for guidance from your Higher Self and look for the answers. The proverbial “Please God, give me a sign for what I should do…”. In this case what we are learning of course is that the God in that statement is within you and it is the real You, your Higher Self. A fractal of God or Source Creator in Human Form.

Approximately 12 years ago I first came to the realization that I could have a direct communication with my Inner God. I noticed that when I asked a question of it and the answer was yes, I would receive an energy surge from my heart-center up up through the top of my head. I interpreted this as being similar to the Kundalini surge many of us have experienced – energy going from the base of the spine to the head indicating energy flowing freely and the Soul Energy being maximized. It served as an indication that what I was thinking or saying was aligned with the Truth. If on the other hand the answer was no, I would get a contraction in my solar plexus area – no Truth. [Getting into a Kundalini Bliss state is the most powerful way to maximize your Soul Energy and communicate with your Higher Self and the Source Field. See my paper – Dan Winter and the Physics of Bliss and Enlightenment to learn more.]

I used this method for a few years with very good results. As I continued on my own journey of stilling my mind, refining the energy pathways in my mind-body-spirit complex, and further transcending the Ego, I then encountered that I was getting a thought form transmitted to me from the Higher Self. A significant improvement in the communication link. The thought form would sometimes just be a few words or a sentence and at other times it would be  like a picture and I would get a complete understanding very quickly (a picture is worth a thousand words as they say…).  Moving on to a few years after that, I was able to achieve real time telepathic communication with my Higher Self that I use consistently throughout the day. 

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Try It Yourself:

I would recommend jump starting your own communication link to your Higher Self via the first method I described. Get into a meditative state and ask yourself some question you’d like to know the answer to. See if you feel energy moving in your body from the heart-center area up toward the top of your head. Benchmark this method by asking simple true or false questions you know the answer to and see what happens. For false questions you should feel some type of contraction in your mid section rather than an expansion of energy flow up your body. If you gain confidence that you are getting right answers, then ask more questions you don’t know the answer to and see over time if what’ve you’ve been told by the Higher Self actually turns out to be true. When asking questions like this, remember to stay in a neutral mind and emotional state and not let the Ego-Mind bias the results. Try asking the same questions at different times and days.

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Here are examples from my own life of how I use my connection to my Higher Self in daily living, from the routine to the important:

I synchronize my daily priorities  – what should get the most attention, what projects should I focus on, what things are best to be pursued at a later date, etc. I get simple yes or no answers but also things I should consider that I wasn’t thinking of. In this way, my priorities get synched with the life plan my Higher Self has established and focus my attention on items that will get the most results instead of wasting my time.I ask about places where I may go for the day or the week – the park with my dog, a concert, a restaurant, golf, etc. I ask my Higher Self on a scale of one to 10 how much will I enjoy each option. I will even ask it to tell me the optimum time to go to a place – say when will the park be the least crowded or when will the weather be the most enjoyable. It will even guide me at times to options I’m not even thinking about. How effective is what I’m doing in terms of getting the result I want on a particular task or objective? What should I do differently instead?I read and research a lot and for whatever project I’m working on as well as for general knowledge and pleasure.  In all cases, there are lots of options on what the best source materials may be. I simply ask my Higher Self for each book, article, podcast, or video I’m considering if it’s the right one for my objective and highest good. It knows exactly what I’m trying to achieve and how closely the particular source material will provide what I need. It also screens out things that are not of the highest consciousness level. In today’s world of endless information on any topic, having this guidance is priceless. My Higher Self is my constant companion when I write – providing content ideas, answering my questions about various topics and research information, and assisting me in editing and revising the final product. I will ask for clarification or explanation of some item in what I’m reading or watching. I’ll also ask many times if what someone has stated in a book or video is actually true and depending upon the response ask for and get further clarification.Any business or commercial transactions where I need to decide if the person is being truthful and acting in good faith is told to me. I also ask and receive guidance on how to proceed step by step. It is very difficult to be fooled or to do something not in your highest interest with this capability.I’ll also ask what is my percentage alignment with my Higher Self’s will. Over the last few years I’ve been able to get into the mid 90% range and I know when I’m at that level of better things in my life go well and life is much more enjoyable. If something goes wrong or not to my liking, I ask my Higher Self if it was meant to be a Catalyst for Change or merely an accident or coincidence. If it is a Catalyst then I’m told what changes in attitudes, beliefs, and or behavior are necessary to regain alignment and balance with higher vibrational living. 

Having this strong connection now going on 12 years, I’ve developed great trust in this guidance as the track record of whatever information I get is very high. In fact, the only time things may not turn out as expected is when I realize that it was my Ego getting in the way of clear communication. In other words, my Higher Self was recommending one thing but my Ego really wanted something else and that emotional energy interfered with the communication. The remedy to this is to stay neutral as best as you can and be in a quiet state of mind – especially when asking about important decisions and choices. For those cases, it also makes sense to ask a number of different times over a few days, just to ensure that you’ve gotten the right message. ( It also is beneficial to listen to multiple indicators. You think you are hearing your higher self speak but that may be your Ego in disguise. But you can then always check in with the feelings in your body – like the power surge I get from the heart center to the head – for me that signal is very reliable.)

It will certainly be challenging at times to accept the guidance you are getting as it goes against your rational mind or Ego desires. But over time, you will come to see that the Higher Self with its access to a much higher level of information, knowledge, and wisdom, along with the ability to see the probabilities of future events / time lines, gives guidance that serves you best in the long run. Living with this strong connection to the Higher Self is an amazing and wonderful experience. Your ability to successfully navigate a difficult and challenging world is greatly improved. You gain deep insight into what and what not to do and gain access to information not possible in any other way. This naturally increases your confidence and peace of mind. You don’t need to worry like you used to as you are being expertly guided through the maze of life’s choices with an all-seeing, all-knowing guide.

How Quickly Can One Strongly Connect with the Higher Self?

How quickly this connection can occur depends upon each individual’s unique situation. Knowing that the Soul exists and that you desire and intend to have that connection is step one. After that, what is necessary is to still the mind and detoxify and fine tune the energetic pathways of the body so that effective “Inner Communication” can occur. Lastly, the hard boundaries of the Ego need to soften so as not to block the communication and alignment from happening. The Ego wants to stay focused on the external sense based world and through the accumulation of a life time of mental programming of sub optimal beliefs about itself and the external environment, it resists one’s Soul Light from fully expanding. Spiritual Awakenings or Soul Expansions occur when the walls of the Ego become less dense and the Soul is finally allowed to take its rightful place as the leader in your life. [There is a process to achieving this that certainly takes commitment and effort – I’ve explained it in great detail in the paper – The Path to Enlightenment, A Guide to the Soul’s Ascension Journey.] 

Conclusion

As we head into the age of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, we need to remember that we humans are extremely powerful spiritual beings. We have capabilities in terms of knowledge, information, creativity, and wisdom that go way beyond what any synthetic intelligence will ever be able to do. We can literally create material reality with the power of our spiritual energy and our Higher Self has access to information which we can use to create our ideal future that no machine or computer will ever be able to provide us. Yes, we should use these new emerging tools for some aspects of our lives and to be our assistants in the material world. They will be useful if we manage and evolve them correctly. But they are not capable of interfacing with the unseen worlds at higher density levels. We humans have that capability as Source Creator in human form. To think as some naive and uninformed people are speculating that the merger of humans with machines would be some kind of Great Leap Forward is laughable if one really knows the truth about who humans really are. They would be speaking quite differently if they were strongly connected to their Higher Self and became Soul Driven. That’s where real Super Intelligence comes from and that is our birthright and real future as evolving souls heading into 4th Density Earth Life. 

In Service to Your Highest Good,
~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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Dan Winter and the Physics of Bliss and Enlightenment

Many of us have come to know and experience that our material reality is actually based on vibrational frequency. Einstein helped us understand this with his famous equation: E = mc2    Where E represents the energetic field known as the Ether, Plasma Field, or Zero Point Gravity field in Quantum Mechanics. It is what is considered to be 99% of what we call space. M is mass, or what we consider all of matter or material reality. C is the speed of light and it is squared. Mass is multiplied by the speed of light because as energy is released or travels, it does so at the speed of light. It is squared to take into account that the energy of motion or kinetic energy is proportional to its mass. When you accelerate an object, the kinetic energy increases approximately to it being squared. 

The material world therefore at the quantum, sub-atomic level is all energy. Which means we ourselves are Energy Beings.  Energy in turn, converts to matter per E=mc².  Our physical reality – our bodies, our material objects, and nature itself are underneath their physical appearances, pure energy. This energy is viewed as vibrating waves with various frequency characteristics. Einstein made the point clearly when he said:

“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.  Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.  It can be no other way.  This is not philosophy.  This is physics.”  – Albert Einstein.

If our Material Reality is Energetic Frequency, then it has profound implications for what we actually are as beings (not just a physical material body), what we believe our true reality to be (not isolated individuals with no connection to everyone and everything else), and how we would optimally interact with everything in our environment (we would learn how to connect via our frequency capabilities for optimum communication, knowledge, and health). 

The process of Energy converting to Matter, E=mc², represents in my view, a “created” reality, what some religions call “The Creation”, or m.  It is a simulator of sorts for souls to experience and learn in. It is a soul training school. In the channeled work by LL/Research,The Law of One, the sixth density soul group Ra, explains that there are 8 different density or frequency vibration levels in the created universes. Densities 1 through 5 are the realm of the material worlds where E=mc² is in effect. Density 1 is mineral, Density 2 is animal, and Density 3 is the start of humanoid and other species and extends into more advanced levels of beings and civilizations in 4 and 5. 

In densities 6, 7, and 8 souls no longer require the use of physical bodies and material environments for their evolution, it becomes all mental or mind. Densities 6,7,and 8 are not part of the Creation as the “illusion” of matter is gone, and souls remain within their natural soul energetic frequency state which is what pure consciousness or pure awareness is. All 8 densities reside within the Source Creator and are a part of it.

Ra in Law of One states that it is the goal of Souls to seek to understand how the “Creation” functions and learn how to excel in its teaching curriculum and graduate or “ascend” up through the various densities. Earth is currently in the Ascension phase of transitioning from a 3rd density planet to a 4th density one. If you meet the requirements for 3rd density graduation [achieving a vibrational frequency where your way of being is at least 51% service to others] you can remain on Earth and have your 4th density experience. If not, you will repeat 3rd density experience on another 3rd density planet for as long as many 25,000 year cycles are needed till you graduate or ascend. [If you haven’t yet read the Law of One books, I cannot recommend anything more highly to better understand our reality and the soul curriculum for this universe.]

Various spiritual traditions, especially the mystic branches (direct connection and integration with the Source) of various world religions have spoken at great length of how to raise one’s energetic vibration, expand their consciousness beyond the body, and powerfully connect to the Source Creator (and everything or anyone in the Source Field – the Creation at all density levels). Various branches of Yoga, such as Kundalini Yoga in particular, have extensive mind and body practices to optimize this connection. 

But for present day Earth Humans, we have not had a compelling scientific explanation for what many of us in our spiritual practices have been experiencing for a long time such as ecstatic bliss experiences which collapse the boundaries of the ego and give us a deep feeling of unity and oneness with all beings and nature. These “spiritual awakenings”, often result in the activation of paranormal capabilities for many people – things such as telepathy, knowledge at a distance (remote viewing in modern terms), and the ability to energetically shape and influence our physical reality in all forms.

At the level of Truth, Science and Spirituality would be in complete alignment as both seek to explain our material world and how best to function within it. If people around the world are experiencing these energetic connections, one would think that Science one day would have an explanation and understand the ways and methods all of us could have these experiences and better participate in the soul evolution curriculum. This is where Dan Winter comes in and the focus of this paper. Dan has actually been explaining in scientific terms the physics of bliss and enlightenment for a number of decades.  He has also produced both scientific equations to prove his theories as well as building devices to help people create and cultivate their energetic field or aura – their soul energy if you will – for both bliss and healing purposes.

Dan Winter’s background is quite broad and compelling as he has had strong technology development work along with spiritual training and experience alongside very experienced practitioners. Over time Dan has been synthesizing what the most advanced physics we have say about what ‘E’ or the plasma field is comprised of and how communication within the field or connection between elements in the field takes place. He does this by taking elements of scalar and laser physics along with his own unique connections and insight to make a compelling theoretical framework backed by mathematical equations. He has produced over 300 videos over the years explaining his ideas and written four books. Dan makes a valiant effort to make the material accessible in the videos but admittedly it can be very challenging to understand for the general reader. With that in mind, I thought it would be helpful to pull together some of his main ideas and arrange them in a way to be more easily digestible and to provide some of my own clarifying comments and perhaps make some connections to spiritual teachings and practices.

At this point, let me pause and say one must really experience Dan directly – especially through his videos. He has great energy and enthusiasm for his work and for teaching others about his findings. I would recommend starting with a few videos that I found very good and one of his books that I’ll list here. You’ll find more recommendations at the end of the paper.

(video) Deep Biology of Kundalini (video) Science of Bliss: The hygiene, the practice, the yoga..the ‘Shareable Thoughts’ (video) Fractal Implosive Charge Collapse and Negentropy: The Future of Electrical Engineering (book, pdf) Fractal Conjugate Space & Time: Cause of Negentropy, Gravity and Perception

I’ve structured the paper in a question and answer format. I pose a question and then use Dan’s own words and explanations found in his various books and articles to provide the answer. Everything from Dan is in quotes. Any comments or points of clarification from me are in square brackets [ ], are italicized, and are without quotes. I hope you find the paper useful.

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The 24 Characteristics of Enlightenment

The 24 Characteristics of Enlightenment

By Sri Bhagavan, Oneness University, India

Introduction by Taansen Fairmount

It is very important to understand that the above characteristics do NOT constitute virtues to be cultivated by practice and effort as a path to enlightenment. Many religions and spiritual traditions have made this mistake. While there may be some benefit in cultivating such virtues, doing so should not be mistaken to be helping much to bring the enlightenment. In fact, putting too much attention on such cultivation has often backfired by increasing the sense of ego, which is the primary obstacle to enlightenment.

The enlightened state, also known as self realization and cosmic consciousness, is a result of the removal of the egoic mind. The problem with focusing on the cultivation of good qualities is that absent turiya, the cultivation of virtues usually tends to increase the sense of ego. [Turiya is the state of union also referred to as unity consciousness. Turiya can be experienced through the practice of meditation].

Therefore, the reason for listing the 24 characteristics of enlightenment in this context and commenting on them is only to give those who are awakening a gauge by which to measure their progress. In the natural process of awakening, these qualities appear in their season like fruits on a tree. Thus the best focus for one’s attention is directly on watering the roots of the tree . . . which is facilitated by the experience of turiya and by loving devotion to one’s preferred form of God. Then the 24 characteristics appear in their season as a byproduct.

This is the time in history when the state of enlightenment begins to spread en masse. Thus it is imperative to know what it is. It is not just some improved intellectual understanding.

Rather, it is an all-encompassing moment-to-moment experience that continues 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Individuals and small groups in the thousands throughout the world have permanently attained this in recent years, months, and weeks – – and it is spreading at an exponentially accelerating pace. If you are reading this, this experience is available to you far more quickly and easily than it ever has been in the world history. Here are some things you should know about it.

Enjoyment – It is amusing that many people have an image in their minds of a stereotype of an enlightened person as some kind of yogi or monk or nun who has left the world and is living in isolation. While some have indeed done this, the far more common enlightened one is a householder who still enjoys regular human life and the pleasures of the senses. In fact, the enjoyment of the senses is far greater for an enlightened being than it is for the unenlightened. This is because one’s inner consciousness has been liberated from bondage to the senses and the mind. One’s center of consciousness is living in total infinite freedom, above and beyond time and space – – and so in this beautiful freedom, one can enjoy everything many orders of magnitude more profoundly.

Liberation from the mind – One realizes one’s essential identity as the unbounded ocean of pure bliss consciousness. Thus one now transcends all belief systems. Enlightenment is not a religion or a philosophy. One can smile and look down on what one used to “believe” and be amused. One now gets truth directly from reality as it is – – without the filter of the mind with all its colors and conditionings. One’s inner consciousness is permanently liberated in infinity . . . and is now shining down through the mind and purifying it.

Freedom – The Rolling Stones’ song “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” is the theme song of the state of unenlightenment. This state of ignorance had no beginning, but it has an end. When the enlightened state is reached, a new eternity begins. Satisfaction is gained from within, continuously and permanently. It is irreversible. There is a constant stream of nectar-like bliss flowing from the unified field, the field of the Universal Self, from deep within. This creates a total liberation from dependence upon anything in the outer world for satisfaction. The freedom this gives the enlightened one is indescribable. The joy, happiness, love, and bliss one experiences because of this is the “peace that passeth understanding”. One’s consciousness is permanently freed from the mind, the body, and the senses – – and yet one can continue operating through the mind, the body, and the senses. Now for the first time, one is the master of the mind, the body, and the senses. One is no longer their slave.

Love and happiness – Because one’s consciousness is infinitely free, the inner wellspring of happiness overflows one’s being, and one is in love with all of existence. One’s compassion for others begins flowing in tidal waves. One’s love for every living being – – and even for the inanimate things – – becomes unbounded. One’s heart sings and soars and overflows. One’s happiness is indescribable.

Individual Flowering – No two snowflakes are alike. Likewise, no two enlightened people are alike. In fact, their differences become even more pronounced. What all enlightened people have in common is the awakening to the absolute knowing that there is only one Self in existence – – and I Am That Self. There are no separate “selves” – – that was the egoic illusion in ignorance. This realization is extremely blissful. Nevertheless, at the same time, the enlightened one is still expressing through an individualized form – – just like rays of sunlight emanating from the one sun, or the sap in the tree appearing as all the parts of the tree. The Self is one – – but its expressions are innumerable and infinite. This is unity in diversity – – the true meaning of university. The enlightened one knows the one thing at the essence of all things as a constant direct experience . . . and at the same time, is also manifesting one’s universal uniqueness as no other individual in existence can do.

Gradual and Sudden – Various ancient holy traditions have debated whether enlightenment comes gradually or whether it comes suddenly. The truth is, it is both. There is a long gradual buildup to it . . . and then there is a moment, or series of moments, when it suddenly Awakens. It is just like water heating on the stove. It heats up gradually, but there comes a point when it transforms from a liquid to a gas – – suddenly.

The 24 Characteristics of Enlightenment

1.   No Suffering 

Right now, this moment, deep inside of each one of us is the state of enlightenment. Deep within the mind, beyond thought, anchored in the holy of holies of the heart, we already have cosmic consciousness. 

So really, we don’t “attain” enlightenment, so much as we uncover it. What already is the case simply gets revealed.  That is why it is called “Self Realization”.  We “Realize” it. 

Suffering is caused by the veiling of that enlightenment by the clouds of mind, which developed in us over eons of time. This was caused by our attention focusing outwards due to fascination with the diversity of creation. Our attention was streaming from our inner enlightenment – – our divine essence – – which is the source of all nourishment, bliss, strength, happiness, and fulfillment.

Over time, this outward focus and fascination atrophied our awareness of source. We developed amnesia about it. This created an illusion of separation from source. This is the cause of fear, and fear is the seed of all negative emotions. This is the seed of suffering.

The cure for this is the true meaning of “yoga” – union. The cure is to achieve a removal of the illusion of separation. It feels like a reunion – – although in truth, we were never really separated. The separation was an illusion, but the experience was real.

2.   No Carry Over

While number 1 showed how there is no suffering in the present, number 2 shows how there is a complete cessation of suffering from the past. “No carry over” means none of the impressions from the entire history of one’s soul journey of thousands of eons can have any influence on how one feels in the present moment. This is powerful, profound, unprecedented, and tremendously significant.

It is well known in human experience that sometimes when people have achieved ideal circumstances in some kind of outer paradise, there seems to be a kind of bliss that lasts for a while . . . but as the novelty wears off, then the habit of one’s old mind to dwell on unpleasant things returns. Hence in the unenlightened state, carry over is a common experience. The impressions of age-old ignorance plague the unenlightened mind.

An analogy illustrates this. In a mind that is spiritually asleep, any impression made on it is like a line carved in stone . . . very difficult to erase. In a mind that has begun to awaken, and has more transcendental life in it, an impression is like a line drawn in the sand . . . after a while, the ocean waves come in and wash the line away. In a mind that has totally awakened to its enlightened state, impressions are like lines drawn on the water with one’s finger . . . they disappear the same instant that they are drawn.

This doesn’t mean that people in the enlightened state have no feelings and no memories. On the contrary; it is well known among the enlightened that the positive and uplifting feelings become awesome . . . and one’s ability to recall data from one’s field of memory is like an encyclopedic supercomputer – – far superior to the memory one ever had in the unenlightened state.

The reason there is no carry over of the previously binding effects of mental or emotional impressions from the past in the enlightened state is that the strength of the inner splendor is supreme. Just as a bright light obliterates the darkness in a room, and just as the seemingly real phenomena in a dream disappear instantly when one wakes up, the enlightened state creates the invincible and irreversible experience of unbounded bliss and total unlimited awareness – – such that one’s essential feeling level is now permanently saturated with ever-expanding happiness.

This is a happiness for no outer reason at all – – emanating from an awakened cosmic consciousness in the very deepest center of one’s being deep within, and is thus completely independent of outer circumstances. Even one’s past mental and emotional impressions are now considered “outer”, because one’s attention is sitting on the throne of one’s own inner Holy of Holies – – above and beyond the entire matrix of the mind.

This positions one’s core experience in the ultimate reality, which is now constant and uninterrupted. It is impossible to lose. Nothing in time and space and nothing in all of creation can disturb it. It is supreme and all-commanding. One’s essential identity is now established eternally in the constant experiential knowing of the one thing at the essence of all things in existence.

Because of this, no matter what impressions one’s soul may have experienced going millions of years back into the past, no matter how powerful they may have seemed at the time, they are now like ice cubes or snowflakes that have melted in the hot sun. The brilliant, blissful, and undefeatable light shining from deep within dissolves anything and everything from past, present, or future that does not resonate with it and expand it.

Now the only objects of perception, whether in third density or in higher dimensions, that can withstand the blaze of this light are those which are serving to harmonize with it and add to the sum total of happiness in the universe. Those are not carry overs – – because they were not generated from one’s previous unenlightened state. Thus now in the enlightened state, only success and ever-expanding joy-giving influences are spontaneously manifested effortlessly from one’s presence. 

There is no carry over because carry over comes from the past, and an awareness that has been liberated from time and space is now established in the eternal now.  In the eternal now, the past and future do not exist.

3. No Conflict

The pure mind which is enlightened by the shining radiance of the omnipresent unified field enjoys its seat of consciousness in the prefrontal cortex, from where oneness is perceived in everything. Differences are still seen, all the more so – – but now the differences are subordinate, and the oneness is dominating perception.

One’s mind prior to enlightenment had conflict because it had failed to cognize the ultimate reality – – the reality of oneness underlying and permeating all things. Thus in the unenlightened mind, differences dominate, and oneness is either subordinate or isn’t perceived at all.

When differences dominate, conflict is inevitable. That is why mankind has fought over 5,000 wars in the last 3,000 years. That is why most people engaged in verbal abuse every day with those around them. It is why very few interpersonal relationships were always consistently peaceful and harmonious.

When the mind is enlightened by the predominance of oneness, the experience is that this is a far more accurate perception of reality. This is an unshakable knowingness. It is saturated with an inner experience of such ineffable bliss that it has been called “the peace that passeth understanding”.

Because this state is so infinitely superior in satisfaction, and because it is so crystal clear that this level of perception is the truth, it becomes irreversible. Once tasted, it cannot be lost. Like awakening from a nightmare in the dream state, and waking up to peaceful and harmonious surroundings, one immediately knows that the conflict in the nightmare was nothing more than illusion.

Someone who has thus awakened will never again be plagued by conflict in their thoughts about anyone or anything. Such a possibility will be out of the question. With this being the case, one will be incapable of creating conflict in the surrounding environment.

4.    No Comparison 

Prior to enlightenment, the mind is seeking happiness in the relative diversity of creation. It tends to compare objects, people, and ideas, one to the other, in its quest to find which one will give greater joy and satisfaction. But it continues discovering that nothing in relative creation is totally satisfying.

Upon awakening to enlightenment, the mind finds ultimate satisfaction in transcendental being – – the all-pervading unified field of oneness. The direct and continuous experience of this ultimate reality is so overwhelmingly preferable in satisfaction that the mind completely loses interest in comparing objects in the relative dimensions.

The irony is that the enlightened mind has a far greater ability to compare things accurately . . . and will do so only when it is useful for fulfilling some evolutionary purpose for the benefit of the environment; but such a mind is no longer compelled by the unconscious drive of comparison for achieving any kind of unattained satisfaction. It acts only on behalf of the totality of creation.

5.    No Hurt 

Getting hurt physically, mentally, or emotionally is no longer possible in the state of enlightenment. Even if the third density body is harmed, the inner experience of the enlightened one is the continuity of all-pervading bliss. The enlightened one can certainly feel – – in fact far more sensitively. So it’s not that he or she is numb to feelings. The absence of feeling hurt is not due to numbness or insensitivity.

Rather, it is due to a far more powerful and dominating saturation of one’s entire being with the bliss of the beyond, and the coexisting awareness of one’s essential beingness living in an eternal state that is beyond time and space. This is a continuous moment to moment experience, from which all events in creation are viewed as subordinate – – including events that happen to the bodily vehicle and the mind and emotions of that vehicle through which the enlightened one happens to be expressing.

This is why Maharishi said that it is an insult to say that Jesus Christ suffered on the cross. It is an insult because it would imply that he was not enlightened. The enlightened one has no more personal suffering, as reviewed earlier herein. The reality of “no hurt” expands on this, and makes it crystal clear that the enlightened one spontaneously sees all outer phenomena as maya – – illusion – – rather like watching a movie.

The essence of why this is the case is that one’s identity is no longer erroneously equated with the ego. Identification with the ego has permanently dissolved. This means neither one’s physical body, nor one’s mind, nor one’s emotional body are any longer considered to be “myself”. Therefore whatever happens to the body, mind, and emotions, whether positive or negative, is insignificant for one’s continued peace, joy, and happiness.

It is appreciated that the idea of enhanced sensitivity and the ability to feel physical, mental, or emotional hurt without actually registering it as such may be confusing for the unenlightened. It sounds like a contradiction. That is why Masters throughout history have always said that the enlightened state cannot be explained in words. That would be like explaining the waking state to someone who is asleep. Ultimately, it simply has to be experienced to be known.

Suffice it to say, when one can no longer be hurt by anything, without being numb or insensitive, one knows this is a sign of the enlightened state.

6.   No Charge

When any negative emotion arises due to being triggered by an outer event or influence, this is due to what is known in Sanskrit as a “samskara”, or latent impression from the past. The clash of the outer influence or event with the samskara is known as a “charge”.

One of the most common examples of this is the human tendency to get upset when someone says something with which one strongly disagrees. In the unenlightened state, it is typical to get agitated or charged up about this. By contrast, in the enlightened state, one is completely established in transcendental consciousness. Then if another person says something disagreeable, the enlightened one feels zero charge from it. One’s equanimity spontaneously continues unperturbed. 

In the first place, the enlightened one no longer has opinions or beliefs. He or she simply sees. It is a state of simply seeing what is. So, there is nothing that anyone else can say that would “disagree” with any previously formed belief. Secondly, even if someone else says or does something that appears to contradict “what is”, the enlightened one can only feel love and compassion, and a rather light sense of humor about it. It is impossible to get charged over anything anymore.

The nature of the enlightened state is to spontaneously value oneness and harmony over any division or conflict. It is spontaneous and effortless. It is not that one has cultivated oneness with effort. Rather, one effortlessly and directly sees the predominating oneness and eternity of pure being – – and the blissful sacredness of that is infinitely more important than any of the everchanging phenomena of relative existence.

7.    No Guilt

Guilt results from identification with the ego and with impressions from the past, both of which have been transcended and dissolved in the state of enlightenment. Further, no new potential causes for guilt get created, because one is spontaneously in total harmony with universal natural law. One of the very definitions of the enlightened state is that it is not possible in the nature of things for the enlightened one to violate universal natural law.

It’s not that the enlightened one lacks the freedom to do so. Rather, the essential constituent of the enlightened one’s moment to moment experience is the unbounded ocean of pure bliss consciousness, which is the home of all the laws of nature. In other words, all the laws of nature emanate automatically from the universal Self, which has been realized as the very identity of the enlightened one. To violate the emanations from one’s own core of being would be like darkness coexisting in the same place as bright light. Not possible. The light, by definition, eradicates darkness wherever it is found present. 

8.    No Fear

Fear is known as the root of all negative emotions. And the root of fear is the illusion of separation from Self, one’s essential source and identity in cosmic consciousness. When by the process of experiencing turiya, the fourth state, one regains even a short glimpse of oneness with pure consciousness, tremendous fear is eliminated instantly and permanently.

This is because the illusion of separation has been penetrated, even if only briefly. Daily experience of turiya gradually dissolves this illusion totally and permanently – – thus erasing the whole basis of fear.

The reason awakening to one’s true identity as the universal Self makes fear impossible is that the essential nature of the Self is Love. Love, being the unifying power in creation, sees the unity and oneness of all things. So being, its spontaneous nature is to give joy, happiness, and bliss. This life-supporting influence is nourishing to all life.

Fear can only be felt by the unenlightened one because he or she is failing to experience the blissful love and oneness that underlies and permeates all things. In the enlightened state, phenomena that were previously causes of fear in the unenlightened state are now seen as merely mirages . . . passing illusions.

The predominating moment to moment experience is the knowing of the ultimate reality, which is universal unconditional Love. Just as darkness cannot exist in the same space as light, fear cannot exist in the same space as universal unconditional Love.  

9.    No judgments

The enlightened one lives in the present moment and is completely free from the previously binding influence of mental and emotional impressions that created judgments from the past.

It is not that an enlightened one is incapable of judging whether it is safe, timely, and auspicious to travel on a journey, for example; or whether a certain message should be communicated to someone. Rather, it is that judgments are not made locally in the human mind. They are not based on any pre-existing beliefs or impressions, because those no longer exist in the enlightened human.

In that sense, it could be said that one’s always-correct actions are not being determined by judgments . . . but rather by automatic calculations from the universal mind. In the enlightened state, there is total harmony and synchrony between body, mind, emotions, and universal mind. It is experienced as one continuous flow of divine manifestation through the human vehicle – – so the old inefficient method of making decisions based on judgments that prevailed in the unenlightened state has been replaced by the infinitely more efficient and beneficial process of individual intelligence being an expression of concentrated universal intelligence.

10.    No Inner Dialog

Many people have told me they could never go into deep meditation because they cannot stop their minds from thinking. “I cannot silence my mind,” they say. Many, many people believe this. Perhaps most people. Thoughts just keep coming, whether we want them to or not. It is a problem recognized worldwide, east, west, north, and south. 

This problem has several different solutions, but those are discussed elsewhere. The focus of this context is how to gauge if enlightenment has occurred. Certainly not the only, but one of the signs of the enlightened state is the natural and spontaneous cessation of the thinking process. “Natural and spontaneous” means it is not achieved by effort. As a matter of fact, it is not possible to achieve it through effort. 

This does not mean the ability to think a thought has ended, but rather that the involuntary dialog has stopped. Any thoughts that occur in this state come directly from the oneness of pure being – – the unified field of universal intelligence. The quality of these thoughts is unsurpassed. They are deep, crystal clear, tremendously intelligent, profoundly loving, and uncannily accurate. They are undistorted by any mental noise or any emotional turbulence. And they are surrounded by a beautiful context of blissful silence. 

Thoughts in the unenlightened state are like random voices and noise in a crowd of 100,000 people; whereas thoughts in the enlightened state are like a beautiful eagle flying through an all clear blue sky. Whole volumes have been transcribed from the talks of enlightened masters about the power and quality of thoughts in the enlightened state, but suffice it to say here, when the involuntary inner dialog has stopped and been replaced by an all-pervading silence that continues 24 hours a day, one can know that an important sign of the enlightened state has appeared.

11. No Identification with Thought, Mind & Self

In this context, the “s” in “Self” is capitalized because it is the title of a section. Otherwise, it is traditional for authors about enlightenment to use the small “s” “self” when referring to disidentification with the body-mind. 

A well-known trait of the unenlightened state is the existential ignorance of Who One Is. “Self” spelled with a capital “S” normally refers to the single oneness of divine identity present in all beings in creation. That is why the first stage of enlightenment has been called Self Realization. One begins to experientially Know that his or her identity was erroneously assigned to the body-mind and ego, and that that was an illusion. 

The direct Knowing that awakens in the enlightened state is that there actually has never been any “self”. This means there has never been any separate or distinct entity or separate identity limited to a name and a form. The conflicts between people throughout history are all traced to this one mistake in self-identification. 

So being, when this misidentification ends, it constitutes another triumphant sign that the enlightened state is dawning. That is why it is very common to hear newly enlightened people say “I no longer consider myself to be a person.” And that is why one of the maxims of the Oracle of Delphi is “Know Thyself”. 

12. Silence

In lesser developed stages of consciousness, people crave parties, busy pubs and restaurants, noisy sports events, loud concerts, plenty of people around, and at home, the constant stream of some kind of media playing. They consider silence to be boring, frustrating, and even scary. 

But that is not true silence. That is only the temporary cessation of outer noise – – what could be called a dead silence. The inner mind goes on with its frantic and crazy firing of neurons. 

As consciousness expands and evolves, though, people find quietness more and more appealing. They increasingly favor soft music, soft speech, quietness in the workplace, quietness at home, and solitude outdoors in nature. Their minds are quieter, and they find the pleasure of this to be far more enjoyable. 

When the day comes that consciousness has awakened to the infinite pure being – – the unified field of enlightenment, there dawns a feeling of all-pervading inner silence whose bliss is unprecedented and unimaginable. This is the inner silence that continues even during dynamic activity and outer noise. 

The subjective experience is universally one of tremendous silence – – a silence that some have called “loud” – – loud in the sense that the blissful feeling of the silence is so powerful that it dominates one’s moment to moment experience. Any sounds heard in the environment are secondary to this beautiful inner silence. 

It is in this magnificent endless silence that one’s “third ear” comes alive. One begins to hear subtleties never before heard, such as the divine inner “still small voice”, and even the ecstatic hum of creation, symbolized for millennia by the syllable “Om” or “Aum”. 

The reason for this beautiful ongoing state of experience is the awakening to what has always been and what will always be – – the infinite sea of pure bliss consciousness. This is the unified field, which in its transcendental nature, is endowed with stillness. It is a state of zero activity. It is the source of all consciousness in existence. It is above and beyond sound and visuals; it is beyond name and form; it is beyond time and space; and it is beyond thought and concept. Yet it is very real. In fact, everyone who has experienced it has considered it to be the ultimate reality, subject to which every other realm is a lesser reality. 

In Sanskrit it is known as Satchitananda. “Sat” means “ultimate reality” or “truth”. “Chit” means pure awareness; and “Ananda” means bliss. Self Realization, the first stage of enlightenment, is characterized by a constant experiential feeling of this unboundedness of awareness, emanating out of silence . . . endowed with silence . . . and returning to silence. It is a smiling, superconscious, presence of living silence. 

 13.   Energy

A major difference occurs in one’s energy level in the enlightened state. Imagine the radiant enthusiasm and joyful energy of a small child extended into the spiritual maturity of an adult. The child has not been long out of the higher worlds, whereas the enlightened adult is now totally plugged in, as it were, to the “outlet” of universal source energy – – the ultimate source of all higher worlds.

Prior to enlightenment, one’s access to universal source energy was diminished by the degree of mental and emotional impurity in one’s being. Long held false beliefs and actions that violated natural law created a mental cloud that obscured the inner splendor of pure being.

To the degree that this illness developed in an individual, to that same degree he or she sought to be compensated with energy from outer sources. This created hunger, craving, greed, and dissatisfaction. In the extreme cases, it created the criminal mind, which was willing to do anything to anyone to satisfy cravings.

By contrast, those who transcend all that and turn within sufficiently have become less and less dependent on outer sources for satisfaction. Those who have restored contact with one’s inner divine presence have discovered boundless and unlimited sources of energy, intelligence, love, peace, and satisfaction.

Deriving it from the omnipresent unified field in this way, the enlightened one finds that even physical and material needs are satisfied. There are countless stories of miracles in the various holy traditions describing the materialization of food, drink, and other physical necessities from contact with the limitless divine provenance.

In addition, beyond outer provisions, the inner oneness with Source endows one with a subjective experience of “causeless joy” – – known in Sanskrit as santosha – – contentment with no apparent outer cause. It is a fairly universal human experience that joy gives energy.

The other reason for such high energy in the enlightened state is that the mind is no longer leaking, wasting, and dissipating energy in negative emotions or in positive but scattered and random wanderings of attention. Because the mind has gained santosha, it no longer wanders aimlessly. It spontaneously and naturally rests in silence and contentment. The random wasting of energy has come to an end.

Thus when a thought does occur, it is because the universal intelligence has given the mind a way to expand and add to the sum total of happiness and achievement of the entire creation. Coming directly from universal pure being with no dilution or distortion, the thought carries tremendous energy and intelligence. This translates into whatever energy the body requires to carry it out. 

14.   Witnessing

Most people have heard of the spiritual truth that we are divine, and that the divine is within us. However, until enlightenment, there is no experiential understanding of this truth. It remains a nice belief; a mere concept.

One of the main definitions of enlightenment is Self Realization, the experience of which shows the individual that his or her essential identity has never been limited to any form – – human or otherwise. An experiential awakening occurs in which there is a profound knowingness that one is a nameless, formless consciousness which is at the essence of everything in existence.

That is the meaning of Tat Tvam Asi – – You Are That (the ultimate reality).

It is naturally from that moment-to-moment realization that witnessing of one’s human form spontaneously occurs. The witnessing not only observes one’s body but also even one’s mind and soul. It is a direct knowing that the “me” is above and beyond name and form . . . above and beyond all limited identity . . . and indeed above and beyond all time and space.

This enlightenment enables and activates witnessing automatically. Witnessing can be likened to the bird’s eye view rather than just the worm’s eye view. The unenlightened state is characterized by the worm’s eye view because one’s sphere of consciousness is limited to the small relative mind-body organism and its affairs. The enlightened state is where the veils and blinders have dissolved, and one experiences one’s individual consciousness to be the same as the universal consciousness – – just like a wave in the ocean has realized it is one with the ocean.

15. Presence

The subjective experience of all enlightened people has been that consciousness is everywhere and all pervasive. It does not need a human or an animal vehicle through which to express. The enlightened one feels that there is an all-aware consciousness pervading the room, the air, the objects, the environment, and indeed the entire expanse of outer space.

Spontaneously the word “presence” came to be used by a large number of enlightened people to describe this observation. It is a feeling that a loving intelligence is everywhere present, in everything and everyone. It is a presence that knows, that sees, that understands, that supports, and that guides.

It is from this experience that a whole lineage through certain teachers came to refer to the Divine as the I Am Presence. It is the experiential knowingness that the One Self of Existence is Present Here and Now.  It is an indescribably blissful and peaceful feeling. Feeling this presence all the time is one of the signs of the enlightened state. 

16. Experiencing Reality As It Is

If one wears green tinted glasses, everything looks green. If one wears rose colored glasses, everything looks rose-colored. If one’s eyesight becomes perfect and one removes the glasses, then one can see reality as it is, without any filters.

Since ancient times, one of the classic observations of all enlightened people is that those who are unenlightened are viewing the world through the filter of their minds. This colors all experience and distorts the reality. Yet of course the unenlightened cannot really know this, because that way of perceiving is all they have ever known.

That is why the enlightened ones say that awakening to enlightenment is like awakening from a dream. What looked so real in the dream is now suddenly seen as nothing but a mirage, an illusion. 

Because the essential constituent of enlightenment is pure consciousness, the same unbounded, unmanifest, formless, silent pure consciousness that pervades existence, that consciousness perceives everything accurately – – directly – – without going through the filter of the mind. 

This gives the wonderful and constant “experience of reality as it is”. 

17. Causeless Love 

This is one of the most beautiful qualities of enlightenment. Arising out of the infinite silence, the nature of the formless and omnipresent pure being is to overflow into creation with the unifying, harmonizing power of love. In the enlightened state, one directly experiences this spontaneously. This is one of the classic hallmarks of enlightened saints. They are famous for being totally loving.

As said before, this is not due to having cultivated it. It is not due to making an effort to be loving or to having any outer cause for it. Outwardly, it is the common human experience that when someone or something is beautiful and attractive, one’s inner feeling of love is provoked, and one experiences love flowing towards that object. That is natural.

The difference with the enlightened love is that there is no outer cause. Regardless of how one is treated from the outside, and regardless of how attractive the environment is, there is a spontaneous overflow of love from a full heart deep within. It is like a flower that spreads its fragrance regardless of whether anyone is nearby to appreciate it. It just spontaneously radiates its fragrance. 

The supply is endless. One feels that this love can keep on flowing and expanding and overflowing infinitely, which is, in fact, the truth. Because it is formless, the ocean of pure consciousness has no boundaries or limits. It is truly inexhaustible. 

18.   Limitless Joy

Unbeknownst to those who are spiritually asleep, the essential nature of existence is universal, unconditional bliss. When this overflows through an enlightened individual, it results in limitless joy. This joy is absolutely pure and continuous. It results from the feeling of freedom.

The other word that indicates the limitless pure consciousness is the Self. There is only one Self in existence, and I Am that Self. Everyone is, whether he or she realizes it or not. The essential characteristics of this Self are expressed by a blend of qualities such as bliss, intelligence, power, love, joy, silence, knowingness, peace, kindness, freedom, compassion, expansion, radiance, clarity, truth, safety, timelessness, and so on.

The joy is limitless because the freedom is total . . . and the enlightenment is eternal. It is irreversible. 

19.   Peace

Prior to enlightenment, one’s peace is fickle, fluctuating, fragile, and always subject to being tossed about by outer circumstances. This is actually rather well known to most of humanity.

Like a wheel rotating on an axis, the ever-changing universes of manifest creation rotate around the non-changing stillness of the absolute pure being, the unified field, the Self of existence. As long as one’s awareness is only open to the ever-changing relativity of existence, so one’s peace can never be stable.

When one’s awareness opens to the non-changing stillness of absolute pure being, then one begins to experience one’s Self as eternally established in complete and total peace. This peace is profound and complete. It cannot be disturbed by anything in relative time and space.

As reviewed earlier, the mind goes silent because it has found its inexhaustible wellspring of satisfaction in the Self. This creates complete freedom from the mind and the senses. It no longer needs anything in relative creation to feel safe and satisfied.

That is why the Sanskrit word “shanti”, which is that deep and unconditional peace, is so often expressed in the holy traditions of India. And in the west, A Course in Miracles has the saying, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

20. Living in the Present – In the unenlightened state, when the mind fails to find peace and satisfaction in its present state, it naturally wanders into the past or the future. It broods on the events of the past, or it looks into the future for some kind of satisfaction from there. Of course this is never satisfying, because the past is forever gone, and the future doesn’t exist yet.

Upon awakening to the enlightened state, the mind has discovered the infinite source of happiness in the eternal now. The mind can still remember the past when required, and it can still make plans for the future, but it doesn’t dwell in those unreal zones. It is totally elated to rest in the present moment, because in this delightful moment, the mind has discovered by far the best source of peace and happiness in existence.

20. Living in the Present

In the unenlightened state, when the mind fails to find peace and satisfaction in its present state, it naturally wanders into the past or the future. It broods on the events of the past, or it looks into the future for some kind of satisfaction from there. Of course this is never satisfying, because the past is forever gone, and the future doesn’t exist yet.

Upon awakening to the enlightened state, the mind has discovered the infinite source of happiness in the eternal now. The mind can still remember the past when required, and it can still make plans for the future, but it doesn’t dwell in those unreal zones. It is totally elated to rest in the present moment, because in this delightful moment, the mind has discovered by far the best source of peace and happiness in existence.

21.   Compassion

Throughout history, millions of people in the higher levels of the unenlightened state have felt compassion. So the feeling of compassion is possible even in the unenlightened state, in a heart that is full of love and empathy for other living beings. 

The difference in the feeling of compassion in the enlightened state is that it is much deeper, much greater, and much more continuous. It is unbroken. It is not just an occasional overflow. It is an all-abiding, potent, and profound radiance, empowered by the very real perception that my own Self is in all living beings.

That kind of compassion is not something that could be cultivated in the unenlightened state. It is only a beautiful phenomenon of the enlightened state that blossoms and gives its fragrance spontaneously as a result of the overflowing love and happiness one feels.

Like a waterfall flowing down the mountain, if one is experiencing overflowing love and happiness, and if that same one encounters another being who is in trouble for whatever reason, or who is lacking that happiness, it is a spontaneous and natural result that the heart will overflow in compassion for that being. This is one of the most beautiful qualities of enlightenment. 

22.   The Seer, the Seeing and the Seen are one and the same

In Sanskrit, the seer (rishi), the seeing (devata), and the seen (chandas) are known to seem like separate entities in the unenlightened state. Whereas in the enlightened state, one experiences one’s Self to be omnipresent in everything. That is why it is characterized by the experience of oneness. 

This is another of the beautiful qualities of direct experience in the enlightened state wherein one no longer perceives oneself as a separate being, seeing and perceiving objects “out there”. 

23.   Seeing that there is no person, but only personalities dependently arising and ceasing

All the problems of unenlightened life stem from the root cause of the illusion of “me and not me”. The unenlightened state produces the illusion that “I am a person, you are a person, and everybody is a separate person”. From this mirage of division, all the conflicts and wars of history have arisen.

Because the enlightened state opens up the “aha!” perception of reality, which is endowed with the quality of universal oneness, one suddenly sees that identity, as such, inheres only in the Self of existence. Like rays from the one sun, personalities radiate out into creation . . . but they all share the same Self identity.

Like two arms, two hands, two legs, and two feet all radiate out from one human body, controlled by one mind, so everything in existence is the extension of one universal mind – – the Great Compassionate Light.

Hence in the enlightened state, the inner eye is opened to the beautiful truth that “there is no person, but only personalities dependently arising and ceasing”. Personalities are rays of the One Self – – not separate identities. When one realizes this experientially, one feels that all beings in existence are my family, because they are just fellow extensions of Me.

24.   Everything is a process

Before enlightenment, many people have imagined that they were born and they die – – they have a beginning and an end. Similarly, they imagined that the universe, creation, had a beginning and has an end. Hence scientists have been searching for those time points; but no one has satisfactorily answered the questions of “what was before the beginning”, and “what is after the end?”

In the enlightened state, the perception spontaneously arises that everything is beginningless and endless – – including one’s essential Self identity. One experiences that everything is a process . . . and that everything in the universe is evolving endlessly. The sum total of happiness in existence goes on growing eternally. Everything in relative creation is constantly in the process of changing and evolving. Even what sometimes appears to be devolution is simply a temporary increment in the overall evolution and ascension.

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~Jay Kshatri

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graduation of earth humanity to the 4th density – the ascension process explained

Over the last few thousand years, the concept of personal Ascension has been discussed in certain cultures around the world. The Hindus, Buddhists, Tibetans, Greeks, Mayans, Christians, and various Middle Eastern cultures, in their written spiritual works, speak about personal transcendence and the rise of the human into its more perfected state. I’ve written previously about the personal Ascension process and if you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading the following three documents:

Spiritual Awakenings – What they Are, Why they Occur, and How they Happen Being Soul-Driven and Reclaiming Your Super Powers The Path to Enlightenment, A Guide to the Soul’s Ascension Journey  

Those three documents provide the core understanding of how to raise your vibrational frequency and to ascend to higher levels of consciousness. To increase your awareness, knowledge, and to powerfully reunite with the full power of your multi-dimensional soul. To essentially become a Divine Human, a god in human form.

This 64 page paper (PDF download below) is meant to provide background on what we’re starting to know about the operating structure of the Ascension process – the mechanics of how our physical and non physical reality are really working. Specifically, the cyclical nature of planetary and galactic movement, the creation of material worlds, soul evolution and development, and the real history of earth, humanity, and the vast number of other civilizations and inhabited planets in our universe.

Until very recently, most of this type of information was not known by most humans and much of it has been expertly hidden from view. But we’ve entered a time period where all truth must come to the surface, nothing will be allowed to be hidden, no matter how hard the current controller group (what I call the World Management Team – WMT) tries to maintain its secrecy. The end of the massive manipulation of humanity is near its end.

This paper contains what I consider to be many of the key hidden areas of knowledge that shine light on why the Ascension process occurs and what we can expect to be experiencing over the coming years.

You can view a PDF of Graduation of Earth Humanity to the 4th Density – The Ascension Process Explained (64 pages) below and save a copy to your computer or phone by clicking on the download button in the Navigation Bar at the bottom of the document (hold and press your finger or cursor over the bottom of the document window below) . Please feel free to share the link to this page with others who you feel could benefit from the guide.

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Jay Kshatri
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mystic insights no. 17 – The remedy to the flickering light of the soul

Every thought creates a ripple or change in the energetic state of your light body. The obvious culprits are the barrage of thoughts one allows when thinking of past or future events. But the present also has its problems. As we are experiencing the present moment through our senses, we have a tendency to generate ego-based “judgements” about what we are seeing or experiencing. These judgements create ripples in our energy field and our soul light instead of remaining strong and steady, flickers like a candle flame being blown by the wind, and loses its steady intensity. We thus end up reducing the energetic vibration of our soul. The power to create our desired reality is drastically reduced and instead we create a sub-optimum reality in line with the lowered vibration of our energetic field.

In addition, these judgements often trigger additional thoughts that are un-related to what is happening in the present moment. They divert us into past and future thinking that is undesirable (regrets, fears, worries, etc). This creates a further negative spike in our energetic vibration, which can be of short or long duration, depending upon the severity of the ego driven thoughts.

Spiritual Energy Masters therefore know well the importance of the concept “let no thought be unaccounted for”. They remain in full control of their mind at all times and consciously stay in a state of non-judgemental awareness, devoid of fear. They think proactively when they need to, instead of unnecessarily reacting to their environment. They thus maximize the power of their light body, their soul, and their inherent god powers. They consciously choose in their mind the reality they want to experience and physical events transpire around and through them in accordance with their choices.

They are masters of reality creation. Their soul light does not flicker and they thereby provide a clear, strong, and steady energy field that also guides, uplifts, and inspires others. This strong, unwavering light, transforms darkness and illuminates the world.

~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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Mystic Insights No. 16 – Divinely inspired reality creation

Mystics, through Gnosis, come to realize that there is no separation between themselves and the Divine Source. In fact, everything resides within the Divine Source Field, and is an emanation of it – An offspring of its infinite potential. If you are part of something then you share its attributes. In this case, you yourself are then the Divine Source in Human Form and have at your disposal all the same capabilities of Creation that the Source does – because you are a part of It.

If everything in Creation, the good and the bad, resides within the Source, then you have access to what you want to experience as everything is part of the Source and interconnected. The Source creates material reality through changes in its Energetic Vibration. This phenomenon was captured by Einstein in his equation:  E=MC2.  Energy equals Mass times the speed of light squared. Or, Energetic Vibration converts to Matter (and vice versa). Thoughts are energy, and so changing our material reality is as simple as changing the frequency of our thoughts. There are High Energy thoughts – love, peace, joy, and low energy thoughts – fear, hate, anger.

If we want to be powerful creators, then Einstein’s equation shows that you must be at a high energetic frequency. Your thoughts, emotions, and your body must all vibrate at the level of love, joy, and peace in order to create the material reality that you desire. At lower frequency levels, you will also create a certain material reality, but it will match the energetic frequency of your vibration – imagine a material reality that looks like fear, hate, and anger and you will understand this concept.

~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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Mystic Insights No. 16 – Mastering the Art of Divinely inspired reality creation

Mystics, through Gnosis, come to realize that there is no separation between themselves and the Divine Source. In fact, everything resides within the Divine Source Field, and is an emanation of it – An offspring of its infinite potential. If you are part of something then you share its attributes. In this case, you yourself are then the Divine Source in Human Form and have at your disposal all the same capabilities of Creation that the Source does – because you are a part of It.

If everything in Creation, the good and the bad, resides within the Source, then you have access to what you want to experience as everything is part of the Source and interconnected. The Source creates material reality through changes in its Energetic Vibration. This phenomenon was captured by Einstein in his equation:  E=MC2.  Energy equals Mass times the speed of light squared. Or, Energetic Vibration converts to Matter (and vice versa). Thoughts are energy, and so changing our material reality is as simple as changing the frequency of our thoughts. There are High Energy thoughts – love, peace, joy, and low energy thoughts – fear, hate, anger.

If we want to be powerful creators, then Einstein’s equation shows that you must be at a high energetic frequency. Your thoughts, emotions, and your body must all vibrate at the level of love, joy, and peace in order to create the material reality that you desire. At lower frequency levels, you will also create a certain material reality, but it will match the energetic frequency of your vibration – imagine a material reality that looks like fear, hate, and anger and you will understand this concept.

~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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Spiritual Awakenings – What they are, Why they occur, and How they happen

Steve Taylor, a British psychologist, researcher, and author who specializes in the intersection of psychology and spirituality has written a wonderful new book about spiritual awakening – Extraordinary Awakenings – When Trauma Leads to Transformation. Taylor defines spiritual awakening as follows: “Spiritual awakening is simply a shift into a more intense and expansive state of awareness. In awakening, it’s as if the filters or boundaries that limit normal human awareness fall away. At the same time, awakening is a higher-functioning psychological state  – a state of enhanced well-being and freedom from psychological discord, in which people live more authentically and creatively.” 

In Steve Taylor’s research, he identified two different forms of awakening experiences based upon the types of trauma people experienced – Spiritual Awakenings and Spiritual Transformations. 

Spiritual Awakening experiences via Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) – “PTG is based on the idea that different types of trauma – such as bereavement, serious illness, accidents, oppression, and divorce – may ultimately lead to significant personal development. Research has shown that around half of all people experience some form of personal growth after traumatic events. In the long run, they feel a new sense of inner strength and confidence and of gratitude for life and for other people. They develop more intimate and authentic relationships and have a wider perspective, with a clear sense of what is important in life and what isn’t. They are brief glimpses of wakefulness that can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours – perhaps even a few days. In these moments, our awareness expands and intensifies. Our perception becomes more intense and vivid, our inner life becomes more expansive, we feel a powerful sense of connection with other people and with the natural world, and so on. In intense awakening experiences, we may feel as if we are lifted out of ourselves, into oneness with all things. We may become aware of a dynamic spiritual force – whose nature is bliss or love – that pervades all things and all space. However, after a certain amount of time, our normal psychological structures re-establish themselves, and we lose this heightened awareness – or, you could say, we fall back to sleep. For many people, awakening experiences are the beginning of a spiritual journey. After their first glimpse of wakefulness, they feel drawn to spiritual paths and practices as a way of returning to the more intense and expansive state they experienced. As a result, they may gradually cultivate an on-going state of wakefulness. “

Spiritual transformation, which is a much deeper, permanent change where the ego has been dramatically reduced in size and scope and the soul takes back leadership of the self. Taylor categorizes this as Transformation through Turmoil (TTT):

“With TTT, we investigate the miraculous phenomenon of how intense psychological suffering can bring about a sudden and dramatic shift into a new identity. In TTT, human beings, all of whom have experienced the worst predicaments that human life can offer (War, Incarceration, Addiction, and Suicide) but have responded to their suffering not by breaking down, but by shifting up to a higher – functioning awakened state, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. These experiences illustrate how limited our normal human state is. The term awakening implies that we are normally in a state of sleep. And this is what everyone who experiences TTT discovers: that what we think of as normal is an aberrational state that creates psychological suffering and presents us with a false vision of reality. Awakening gives us access to a fuller, higher-functioning state in which life seems easy and we feel home in the world. Essentially,  TTT is about ego-dissolution. In situations of intense stress and turmoil, the ego-self may suddenly give way under the pressure, like a building that collapses in an earthquake. Or it may slowly fall away and eventually disappear through a process of detachment, as psychological  attachments are broken down, like a building that collapses after enough individual bricks have been taken away. For some people both of these scenarios may simply lead to a psychological breakdown, but for a minority, the breakdown of the ego heralds a “shift-up” to a higher spiritual state…a latent awakened self emerges, like a phoenix. TTT is different from born-again religious experiences – those experiences are usually conceptual experiences in which a person’s belief system changes and they adopt a new lifestyle based on those beliefs. TTT is about letting go of beliefs rather than adopting them. This is probably why research shows that born-again religious experiences are usually temporary, whereas TTT is invariably permanent.”

What’s so interesting about this book is that it shows how spiritual awakenings and spiritual transformation can happen to anyone. The people Taylor has studied were not spiritual seekers, but average people from all walks of life that had gone through traumatic situations, which in the case of Post Traumatic Growth (bereavement, serious illness, accidents, oppression, and divorce), many of us will encounter in our lifetime. The traumas associated with Transformation through Turmoil (War, Incarceration, Addiction, Suicide) however, are less likely to be experienced by a broad range of people but in turn have a higher intensity in their ego-dissolution effects on an individual. 

Powerful Transformation Occurs When there is a Breakdown of the Ego

What one experiences from PTG in contrast to TTT could be considered a spectrum from mild spiritual awakening experiences to deep permanent changes and a more profound dissolution of the Ego and expansion of one’s soul or Higher Self. The ego is like a brick wall that a person builds around their soul upon incarnating into material form. The “ego-wall” is a result of the mental conditioning a person takes on from the moment they are born through what they are “taught” by parents, care-givers, teachers, other humans, and overall societal and cultural “norms”. This mental conditioning increases once a child goes to school and ultimately becomes a “working-class” citizen upon finishing their “schooling”, or as some may say, “mind-programming”.

In fact, it is precisely the dissolution of the Ego and other psychological attachments that Taylor points out are what PTG and TTT facilitate for each person’s spiritual awakening experience:

“…in my research, the most common – way in which ego-dissolution can occur is through the breakdown of psychological attachments…a psychological attachment  is a mental construct that builds up our sense of identity and gives us a sense of security and well being. Under normal circumstances, we are attached to a lot of mental constructs, such as hopes and ambitions for the future, beliefs about life and the world, our accumulated knowledge, our accomplishments and achievements, our appearance, and so on. At a tangible level, we may be psychologically attached to possessions, social roles (as spouses or parents or professions), or to other people whose approval and attention we crave. These attachments are the building blocks of our identity. We feel that we are “someone” because of our hopes, beliefs, status, jobs, relationships, possessions, and so on.

However, in times of crisis and turmoil, these psychological attachments break down. In fact, this is usually the root cause of psychological turmoil or depression; we feel lost and desperate because these attachments have been taken away. We have lost the hopes, status, and beliefs (and other attachments) that held together our identity. As a result, we feel empty and fragmented, and full of discord. We are stripped down to nothing, naked, and desolate, as if we have been destroyed. But we are also paradoxically close to transformation. Now that the old ego has dissolved away, there is an empty space within our being. As a result, there is an opportunity for a higher self to emerge into that empty space with our being. All the time, this higher self was latent inside us, fully formed and waiting for the opportunity to awaken. But while the old ego in place, there was no space for it. But now it’s free to rise, like a phoenix from the ashes of the old ego, and to take over as our normal identity. “

Essentially, a spiritual awakening removes the boundaries of our ego self with the rest of existence – we regain the awareness of our inter-connectedness to all life, seen and un-seen. With that renewed connection, comes a much deeper understanding and appreciation of all aspects of our reality. 

Many of the trauma’s studied by Taylor forced the person to go into a state of Solitude (a loss of a loved one or imprisonment) which allowed them to spend more time to go within and examine their inner world, thoughts, and beliefs. He found that solitude coupled with the breakdown of the Ego (and other psychological attachments to the Self), propels people to go within and contemplate and connect with a higher level of existence than their ego-personality construct. It provides the conditions for them to connect with their Higher Self (their soul at its fully expanded, multidimensional state) and thus reconnect to the Creator itself. It is then that the person elevates their consciousness to Divine levels and regains the powers of the Creator that are rightfully theirs.

All the people in Steve Taylor’s research demonstrate to some extent a consistent set of characteristics associated with their awakening experiences. He’s categorized them as follows:

The Characteristics of Wakefulness.       [**contrast with the opposite of wakefulness]

Perceptual

Intensified perception / increased ability to be presentAwareness of “Presence” or spiritual energyAliveness, harmony, and connectedness

Affective

Inner quietness / less identification with thoughtsTranscendence of separation / sense of connectionWell-beingAbsence of (or decreased) fear of death

Conceptual / Cognitive

Lack of group identityWide perspective – universal outlookHeightened sense of moralityAppreciation and curiosity

Behavioral 

AltruismEnjoyment of inactivity / ability to “be”NonmaterialismAutonomy / living more authenticallyEnhanced relationships

If we look at the characteristics of awakening described above, we can see that each is an example of a high energetic vibration state. High vibration has the elements of unity, oneness, love, joy, gratitude, and appreciation. The awakening person has experienced these characteristics because “low-vibration weights” associated with the ego (beliefs, attachments) have been removed from them and their energetic vibration (consciousness) has now been allowed to rise to a higher state. 

The Ego is a construct of the mind and “weights” of the Ego are beliefs that the person has taken on in its life time (from schools, parents, family, friends, society, etc), which form the basis of how the person processes events in their life and that lead to the construction of the reality they experience. That reality experience naturally leads to thoughts, which in turn lead to emotions. Those thoughts and emotions then create an electromagnetic vibration signature that represents their state of being and per Quantum laws, that vibration attracts similar vibration signatures into their lives. Which means they create more of the same reality until they change how they are vibrating. Or more importantly from a root cause perspective, their vibrational reality will not change until they change their beliefs, de-program their minds, and take on a new, more desired set of beliefs. And in the case of the people studied by Steve Taylor for this book, the impetus to make these changes came from the various traumas the individuals suffered that acted as strong catalysts for those changes. One of the people studied provided the following insight:

“I had a moment of clarity. I knew I had to let go of everything, including my own concepts and beliefs. I had to align myself with my spiritual path and continue with my inner journey. From that point on, it was a gradual awakening, day by day. It was a process of coming back to my true self. Now I feel like I’ve woken up from a dream. I realize now that the dark cloud used to follow me around was the dark cloud of thoughts. The realization that I am not my thoughts was one of the most liberating experiences. Now the clouds of my thoughts may come, but I can just watch them pass by, without logging in and identifying with them and making them personal. Because of this I feel that I’m the real me and have such a deep peace and contentment. I don’t have any desire to do or be anything in particular. I’m just content being. It feels like the quest is over and there’s nothing to seek anymore. I am home. I feel so deeply thankful.”

The spiritual awakening is the beginning… the process will continue as long as it takes for the person’s soul to be fully be in charge, fear in all its manifestations is overcome, and the ego has taken its proper place as servant to the soul and not the opposite way around. And so in that sense, there is an initial surrender of the ego to the soul, but there could be a number of such surrender moments as whatever fears the ego creates for a person must be overcome until the person fully merges with their higher self and trusts completely in its direction rather than the ego’s – a process captured quite well in sociologist Joseph Campbell’s work, The Hero’s Journey. Spiritual “surrender” is thus reducing the size of one’s Ego so that the Soul can fully expand into its fully expanded state within the individual. In essence, letting as much of your true self, your divine light or soul, into your being. By doing so, you reclaim your full divine powers, your true infinite potential, and take back your rightful place as god in human form.

And as you reclaim your Divine Creator-hood, you will also regain many “Super-Human” powers that in many ways are the source of wakening characteristics listed above and in other ways go beyond them with more advanced capabilities. These powers have been denied to and hidden from the average person over the last 5,000 years. We can better understand what these powers are by looking at what has been handed down through the ages by the Yogic masters. The different modes of Yoga (to join or unite)  practice developed thousands of years ago in India, were meant to increase the energetic vibration in the mind-body-spirit complex and unlock the latent Superhuman powers in the individual. They called these powers Siddhi’s.

The Yoga Sutras lists twenty or so of these powers and they are grouped into three major categories:

Mind-Body control

Exceptional Stability, Balance, and Health (mind and body synchronized)Disappearance of the body from view (a form of teleportation)Extraordinary Strength (physical, mental, and in in general robust health).Knowledge of composition and coordination of bodily energies (using the mind-body connection for self-healing)Liberation from Hunger and Thirst (using the concepts of breatharianism to extract from the Prana what the physical body needs to survive). Blazing Radiance (the enhanced “inner fire” or energetic vibration of a person)Perfection of the Body (high energetic vibration and information allows the body to be ‘lighter’ and achieve perfection)

Clairvoyance (pre-cognition and telepathy)

Knowledge of the Past, Present, and FutureClairaudience (knowledge of the meaning of sounds produced by all beings – or development of the “third ear”. This allows one to hear the conversations of the enlightened ones, the subtle mental conversations of others, the celestial music, and receive messages through the ether both awake or asleep). Knowledge of Previous Births (or past lives)Knowledge of Other Minds (telepathy or mind reading)Foreknowledge of birth, harm, or death Knowledge at a Distance (remote viewing in modern terms)Knowledge of the Inner Universe (understanding spirit or soul beyond the five senses)Knowledge of the Outer Universe (understanding the macroscopic universe beyond the five senses)Vision of higher beings, knowledge of everything that is knowable, knowing the origins of all things, and knowledge of the true self (a complete understanding of the true nature of reality)Freedom from bodily awareness and temporal attachments (moving beyond matter to connect directly to the vast quantum field of energy and information; developing connection to Spirit beyond the body and the material world).

Psychokinesis (mind influencing matter)

Inducing Loving-Kindness in All (influencing others through your energetic vibration)Influencing Others (transmitting spiritual energy to others through one’s gaze or presence)LevitationMastery over the Elements (ability to manipulate physical reality in all forms).

The Siddhis come on line over time as you raise your vibration, gain higher levels of alignment with your Higher Self and the Divine Will. The process tracks your soul evolution in this way and is a safeguard – giving lots of power to a lower evolved soul who doesn’t have the best interests at heart of others can be very dangerous to themselves and others. This is why they only will emerge from those that have sufficiently risen in consciousness and surrendered the control and desires of their ego to the divine will of their soul, inner-god, or higher self.

But to reclaim these super-powers, we must do our part and get to the elusive ego-surrender.

What leads to that “Ego-Surrender” occurring?

Sudden trauma or radical life altering circumstances can lead to surrendering of the ego to the soul / higher self as Taylor describes. Or, a gradual “softening” of the ego over time until either (1) you reach a point where you feel you (your ego) no longer can figure things out on your own and thus open the doorway to your soul light to fully come in or (2) along with the softening of the ego, you proactively go within and reach upwards to purposely desire to fully merge with your higher self. 

This second approach is well described in spiritual philosopher Paul Brunton’s – The Short Path To Enlightenment: Instructions for Immediate Awakening. Brunton shows that we must realize we are much more powerful than we know, and our free will choices carry great weight. So someone consciously choosing with great intent and sincerity to merge every cell in their being with the light of the Creator or Source through reconnecting with their higher self (which is always directly connected to the Source) is a direct command to Universal forces and must be honored. It is a free-will choice you are making and you are in control. The one thing that must be emphasized is that vibrating at a high level, at love or above, is important. Saying flatly “I want to connect to my higher self” is sub-optimal. The creator’s light and energy is what true divine love is and when you vibrate towards that level it makes the connection process much easier. A good approach would be to attempt this connection while you are meditating, have calmed your mind, and allowed your energetic vibration to naturally rise higher. Like connects to like in the world of spirit.

Getting to that ego surrender is a process that is ultimately being coordinated by your higher self. It creates circumstances or what I like to call “catalysts for growth” that will help you break down the walls of separation that the ego creates between you and everything in your physical life and between you and your higher self. These catalysts challenge your established beliefs, perspectives, habits, goals, and desires. In essence, your higher self is guiding you to release from the ego’s drive to keep you in a mind set of duality or separation and instead move you bit by bit towards Unity Consciousness. The state of being where you come to see yourself as One with All. 

Some of these stories may look like “sudden trauma”, but if you look more deeply at the person’s life, it was probably a culmination of a process their higher self started years ago by providing catalysts for change to break down the ego’s grip on them and after many lighter nudges it amplified the intensity in order to get the big breakthrough in consciousness.

Only the person can choose when they are going to be ready to let go of their egoic constructs and let more of their soul-light / higher self into them. Their higher self will guide the process and will create scenarios in their lives for the gradual softening (or sudden destruction) of their ego to occur.

Connecting to your higher self or inner god light, is also a matter of optimizing the conditions for that connection to occur. Since we are all energetic vibration, a key task in this regard is to reduce all the distortions within your mind and body that would hamper this connection from occurring. For the mind this would mean anything that causes noise and agitation – so the mind has to be quieted, negative and fearful thoughts eliminated, and a state of peace and harmony must be achieved. For the body, all toxicity that disturbs the smooth flowing of energy throughout body must be removed – low vibration foods, chemicals, and drugs all top the list.

So why is it that intense psychological turmoil and suffering lead to awakening in some people but not in others?”

Steve Taylor asks and answers this key question toward the back of the book:

“Research into PTG can help us here. It turns out that PTG is associated with certain personality types. In particular, people who have the trait of openness – in that they are curious, creative, and imaginative – are more likely to undergo PTG. And the same applies to TTT. Specifically, people with what might be called a “transliminal” type of mind (to use the term coined by the psychologist Michael Thalbourne) are more likely to experience it. People with a transliminal mind have softer psychological boundaries and are empathic, intuitive, and creative. They are more likely to have spiritual experiences and to experience paranormal phenomena. Essentially, to have a translminal mind means that you ego is not as solid and rigid as normal, with less of a sense of separation and individuation.” Taylor further adds: “TTT is also dependent on a person’s attitude to their psychological turmoil. First, it is more likely to occur if a person is prepared to acknowledge the reality of their predicament. When we face up to the reality of a dangerous predicament, we also face up to our own psychological turmoil. Rather than being estranged from ourselves in delusion and denial, we go into our own being, exploring our inner being and our feelings. This kind of self-exploration may also help to bring about TTT. We saw this process in Gus’s and David’s stories in Chapter 1. Both of them began to explore their own being through meditation, and realized how their suffering was created by their thoughts. In terms of attitude, the most important aspect of TTT is acceptance. When we go through challenges and suffering, we often go into a mode of resistance, such as when we talk about fighting a disease  or struggling to overcome obstacles. But doing so blocks transformation. When we shift into a mode of acceptance – which can occur in the form of surrendering to a situation, letting go, or handing over our problems – then the transformational potential of suffering is released inside of us. Meditation supports the process of acknowledgment, self exploration, and acceptance described above. When a person meditates, they enter and explore their own being. They face up to the predicament and explore the negative feelings it generates. This may lead to a shift into. mode of acceptance, bringing transformation. We could also add that inactivity and solitude help to facilitate TTT. This is because inactivity and solitude encourage us to enter into ourselves, so that we face up to our inner turmoil and explore it.” 

Ultimately, I think we could all agree that achieving some degree of spiritual awakening right up into fully expanded and permanent enlightenment would be the most important thing any human being and collective society, could achieve. We need everyone on our planet to have these types of awakening experiences so that we can raise the collective consciousness on earth and transform our current dysfunctional reality into one of peace and happiness that all people deserve. The good news is that we don’t all have to suffer intense, life-jarring traumas to rise in consciousness. We can take a more methodical and gentle approach to it. Steve Taylor outlines some of those approaches in the latter chapters of Extraordinary Awakenings. I recommend his book highly, as well as his previous book – The Leap, The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening. You can listen to a recent interview of Steve Taylor about his work on the Spirit Matters podcast, here.

I’ve also recently written a book that expands deeply into the methodical and gradual path to spiritual awakening and provides a detailed overview of how to raise your vibrational energy and attain higher levels of consciousness. It is called – The Path to Enlightenment, A Guide to the Soul’s Ascension Journey. If you are motivated to begin or accelerate your own spiritual journey, you can visit this link and download a free copy.  

Wishing You Much Success on Your Path,

Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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Elena Danaan and Humanity’s Key Imperative at this Crucial Time

In this time of great darkness, the only true antidote is to dramatically increase your Light, the energetic frequency of your mind-body-spirit. What follows below are wise words from spiritual author Elena Danaan from her new book – WE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN: Encounters with Val Thor and journeys beyond Earth. Elena Danaan is an Extra Terrestrial (ET) abductee who was rescued by positive ET forces as a child and has been under their care ever since. In recent years, those positive ET’s have constructed a communication channel with her and now routinely bring her off-planet to further her learning and experiences. They are working with her to be a communications ambassador of sorts to humanity – to inform people of the true origins of the human race, background of the various ET races in this galaxy, and the steps being taken by the Galactic Federation of Worlds to free Earth. They have told her that humans must raise their vibration and consciousness in order to ensure the liberation process proceeds smoothly and so that the highest ascension path is achieved. This two page excerpt from her book are the key points the positive ET’s have transmitted for her to share with humans on how to effectively raise their vibration.

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“The Terran (Earth) species is capable of the greatest and highest accomplishments”

The words of Val Thor still linger in my mind as I am writing these lines. That is why we have been enslaved in a lower frequency by those who fear us (negative ET’s). In this lower level of consciousness, we are not able to remember who we truly are and where we are coming from. That is why we are reminded intensely to raise our frequency. By doing so, we reactivate ourselves and awaken to the awareness of our true nature. Concretely, this is what it means and what you have to do: 

1)— REFUSE FEAR: Fear is the Mindtrix, the tool used to control you, numb your will and bind you as a slave. It is broadcast by mainstream media and devices set all over the planet. Do not allow your decisions to be led by fear or confusion. Do not consent to be a shaking sheep! Reclaim your power and sovereignty by regaining your Free-Will and your power of deciding for yourself. You are in control of your life, of your body and of your destiny. You have the power to co-create this reality, and you are way more powerful than you have been conditioned to believe. So just do it! Stop consenting to give your power away to fear, stand up and embrace your freedom. Fear is illusion, it doesn’t exist.

2)—FOLLOW YOUR HEART: Your heart knows. Your heart is your intuition, your instinct. The very first feeling in the first fraction of a second, is the right one. Your senses of perception are far sharper than you think. Your “higher-self” (the being that you are inside this body-envelopee and that vibrates at a higher rate of frequency) knows what is good or bad for you. 

3)—FIND PEACE: When you refuse to allow fear to reach out to you, when you push the disturbances away from your field of consciousness, what is left is the perfect stillness of your mind, of your heart, and of your soul. And it is only in this very moment, that all three are functioning in total wisdom and clarity. It is in this state of perfect peace, complete on all levels of your being, that you are connected with the whole universe. The emotion/energy of Bliss is of a very high frequency, and this state can be reached through meditation. Instead of connecting horizontally with the 3D world-matrix, connect vertically and be the bridge between Earth and Sky. Root below and above, and become as sturdy as an oak, as powerful as an adamantine pillar of pristine light. 

4)—RECONNECT: You are invincible and all-knowing, because when you are connected with who you truly are, you are connected with all things. With eyes closed, look inside at the being inhabiting this body, What do you look like? What shape is your silhouette? Skin color? Hair?… When you focus upon your Lightbeing, your immortal and all-powerful soul, you vibrate in its higher frequency and thus, your are attuned to everything that is vibrating at the same rate. Usually. Then you can feel the presence of your true kind, those to whom you belong as a family. Connecting with yourself, is reconnecting with the entire universe. 

5)—PERFORM YOUR MISSION: In this higher state of consciousness, you suddenly know… you remember… the veil of illusions of the matrix is far below you. You see clearly, you know who you are and you remember what you came here for. Also, you know what you are meant to do. You cannot reclaim your power and extract yourself from the state of slave, until you become aware of who you truly are. You cannot know your mission until you… know thyself. 

Thor Han told me this one day: “You need to cut yourself off from the artificial field of consciousness fed by the dark ones, who broadcast fear and confusion. You need to find who you truly are and connect with your inner being, your true being, eternal and immortal. Once you are aware again to be this being, you realize that you are made of a higher vibration. You will then find peace, and discover that no disturbance is able to reach out to you. You become connected with the cosmos and everything that is of a higher frequency than this body, because your higher being, your soul, is extremely powerful and high in frequency. This is what you need to do in order to connect with yourselves, this is how you raise your frequency. Also, it brings happiness and joy, even in the center of the storm, because when you discover who you are, you are joyful, you know your power, and everything you thought was threatening you, seems ridiculous. When you smile, your vibration is higher. Be yourself, not on a vibration at the level of your avatar, but at the level of your soul. Your soul is extremely, incredibly powerful. You will understand this one day.” 

…Use the green energy, this is what will build the new world. The green energy comes from the heart, produced in the heart chakra. Love, the knowledge of the heart, not of the mind. The life force, Phryll, is a powerful energy. If you know how to use it, you can power the whole world indefinitely. Terrans (Earth Humans) are co-creating their future timeline by manifesting it exactly in the present. All human beings on Terra possess this creative power.

Free will is freedom of thought and of action. You need to find peace within yourself first, and when you find this peace, you will be able to be at peace with everyone else. When you are angry, it is because there are things within your own self that are not at peace. Human species of Terra needs to find inner and outer peace, because throughout peace comes unity, and in unity is strength. If all the Terran humans stand in peace in a higher frequency, in a higher state of consciousness, those who thrive in the lower frequencies will lose interest and leave of their own free will. And the humans of Terra will have won this battle.”

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To go deeper into the process of amplifying your vibration and raising your consciousness, please see my detailed e-book – The Path to Enlightenment, A Guide to the Soul’s Ascension Journey.

Much Love and Success to You on Your Ascension Path,

Jay Kshatri

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The path to enlightenment -A Guide to the Soul’s Ascension Journey

If you don’t know where you want to go, then you are sure not to get there. So it goes with the destination of Enlightenment. It is something hardly discussed in day to day conversations among most people, not taught in our primary education curriculum, and there is no “manual” with easy (and accurate) to follow steps on the internet or a “how-to” video on You-Tube.  Yet, one could argue that it is the most important objective for every human.  Why? Because it takes one to that state of Being which reclaims their forgotten God-Power. Or, to put it slightly differently, the attainment of it results in someone assuming their rightful place as God in Human Form. 

“There cannot be a deity outside of your body that is not within your body, as all is vibrating or emanating energy. Thus, these vibrations flow through your body as well as around it and the vibrations of the Deity include every atom of your whole body as well as the whole mass of the Universe. Thus, you put God everywhere, before all, within all, around all, enveloping all, and  enfolding all. There is not an atomic space that does not have the emanating energy of Light and Life flowing through it.”

~from Book 3, Masters of the Far East

The Path to Enlightenment is often called the Ascension Path. When we Ascend, we rise to a higher state of being, or vibration. We en-light-en, and become filled with more light. Our vibrational frequency rises, and we radiate more light, and more accurately, we attain and radiate a clearer and more powerful sound (sound vibration sped up results in light). The music of our mind, body, and soul becomes lighter, finer, more harmonious, and beautiful. 

This guide is my contribution to those who seek to be intentional during this great Ascension Cycle our planet and Galaxy are currently undergoing. And as all is inter-connected, it is reasonable to say how we progress affects not only ourselves, but everyone and everything in the Universe as well. The Ascension is and will affect all on planet Earth. No one is excluded – the rising frequency of our planet and galaxy in this great shift in vibratory reality and consciousness is something we must all face in our own way. The good news is that the rapidly rising energies on the planet and the breakdown and elimination of the control structure of the dark forces provides a great opportunity to accelerate our soul evolution to higher levels of vibration and consciousness – to more quickly attain our inner-god-hood and “bring heaven down to earth”.

The information I’m going to provide you is based on my own experiences with the Ascension process over the course of my current life time, and in particular over the last twenty years. I will share what I have learned on how to overcome many of the road-blocks put in the way to limit the rise of human consciousness. The dark forces have been quite creative in the tactics and techniques they have used to hold humanity down – to reduce and distort the individual and collective energetic vibration.  More broadly, I’ll share what I have learned in comparing my experiences with what others have described through the ages in terms of raising their consciousness.  I believe there are some common experiences, milestones, and challenges that everyone faces Ascending on the Path to Enlightenment and Reclaiming their Divine Super-Powers.  My hope is that by clearly knowing what the end-goal is and what some of the key requirements and challenges are, it will help you on your own unique and personal journey and increase the chances for success. 

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Much Love and Success to You on Your Ascension Path,

Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com

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