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clinic with an awakened awareness – looking to integrate their awakening into their lives and to embody it – than people with ‘issues’. And what I enjoy most of all, is that people’s ‘issues’ are no longer as harshly judged as they once were (whether by themselves or others). Increasingly, people realise that what may appear as their ‘problems’, dys-functions, habits and dis-ease/ symptoms, reveal as breakthroughs waiting to happen. These breakthroughs, or awakenings, lead into more expansive states of consciousness.
“Don’t you know yet? It’s your light that lights the worlds.” Rumi, 13thC. Islamic Scholar
Awakening -- as I experience it myself – is becoming aware of a truth one can know and feel and trust wholeheartedly, but which may not be understood rationally. It’s about seeing, feeling and knowing that which is, and always has been, beyond ordinary awareness. It’s not about ‘becoming’; it’s about revealing one’s own true being.
THE ‘AUTHENTIC SELF’ IS NO SELF AT ALL; IT IS THE SOUL MADE VISIBLE… Once awakened, people tend to know and feel oneness and wholeness. Once they do, their efforts for a better life become more about ‘integration’; the act of choosing to embody these revelations and insights, and bridging the gap between their inner and outer realities.
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WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF AWAKENING? Here are some insights which the awakened mind may enjoy: • I am an integral and inseparable part of the world. The world is not outside of me, and I am not outside of the world. The world is in me, and I am in the world.
• Nature and I are one. I am in communion with all living things and beings. We are each irreducible and part of a coherent whole, expressing as life on this planet.
• I am part of society, and society is part of me. I am in communion with each and all my fellow humans. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the community of humans on the planet.
• I am more than a physical material organism. My body, and its cells and organs, are embodiments; manifesting what is truly me: a self-sustaining, self-evolving dynamic system arising, persisting and evolving in interaction with everything around me.
• I am embodied manifestation of the evolutionary impulse toward coherence and wholeness in the universe. It is the same essence, the same spirit that is inherent in all the things, which arises and evolves in nature and all existence and experience
• All is relative, and every point of view is a personal reality. Every one and every thing is a self-maintaining and self-evolving coherent wholeness- oriented system.
• There are no absolute boundaries and divisions in this world, only transition points. where one relativity/ set of relations yields prevalence to another.
• The separate identity I attach to my self or other humans and things, is but a convenient convention that facilitates my interaction with them.
• My family and my community are just as much ‘me’ as the organs of my body. There are no ‘others’ in the world.
• Attempting to maintain the system I know as ‘me’ by competing with the system I know as ‘you’, is a serious mistake. When I harm you, I harm myself.
• Collaboration, not competition, is the royal road to the wholeness that hallmarks healthy systems in the world.
• Scarcity is an illusion, bred by a belief in a separate self, and its resultant dualistic thinking. * The above list is partially original,
partially quoted, partially paraphrased, inspired by László Ervin, Philosopher of Science and Integral Theorist
“The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.” St. Francis of Assisi
HOW CAN I INTEGRATE MY AWAKENED AWARENESS INTO THE WORLD? It’s one thing having an intellectual understanding. It’s another to have a direct undeniable experience. It’s something
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