Spiritual Awakening Is A Process, Not One Time Event

As I was thinking about how I honor my ancestors, I was reminded that Spiritual Awakening is a series of events rather than a one time, lightbulb-kind-of occurrence.

There was a specific event, my father’s death, that launched my change in life focus. I had a spiritual awakening, then went through a Dark Night of the Soul. That dark night happened over years. Some months it was less dark than others.

What made that period seem dark is being called to set aside all that I had known about human and spiritual existence. I won’t say The Dark Night of the Soul brought on by the spiritual awakening made me reject what I knew about spirituality and religion because I didn’t reject it. It made me question what I had been taught.

I don’t reject any religion. I find there are truths in every spiritual system I have studied. The people who shared the findings of their study of Creation had a particular way of understanding what they discovered. It informs what I know even if it is not the entirety of my spiritual knowledge.

I was really angry for a time during my spiritual awakening because I felt that I had been purposely taught concepts designed to limit my spiritual embodiment. Actually, people taught what they knew or thought people accept. So I am not angry anymore.

Mistakenly, I thought the Spiritual awakening was a short term event. That I would learn the new skill and immediately be a new person. When I wasn’t made new, I thought something was wrong with me or that I needed another training.

What actually happened is, it took time, years in some cases, to fully embrace the concept learned. The process of being sparked, then assimilation of the idea, of the Creator expressing as Sanaa, for example, is the Spiritual Awakening process.

Within that process I rejected the notion or behaved as if I was separate from the Creator. So I learned the concept, yet it has taken years of unlearning mental conditioning to embody it.

Sometimes I falter. That too is part of the process of spiritual awakening.

Check out the attached video (only 3 minutes) for more details.