Enlightenment Is Not
November 29, 2010 by Akemi · 17 Comments

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I haven’t written much about enlightenment because I don’t like the futile nature of its discussion. But now that I’ve written about the paradoxical nature of spiritual growth, I am ready to take up this topic. (It’s a long article — you don’t expect a big topic like enlightenment comes in 800 words, right? But I will make it as entertaining as possible with youtube videos.)
The definition of enlightenment
The main problem of discussing enlightenment is nobody really knows what they are talking about. The definition of enlightenment is practically arbitrary. This hurts my feeling as a linguist.
First, let’s check the very basic — the dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines enlightenment as:
1. the act or means of enlightening (giving spiritual insight): the state of being enlightened (freed from ignorance and misinformation)
2. capitalized : a philosophic movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
3. Buddhism : a final blessed state marked by the absence of desire or suffering
We are not talking about 2 and 1 and 3 are actually related. We are not talking about merely brilliant spiritual insights, however. If that is enlightenment, hey, this blog is enlightening. So I must be enlightened — and I didn’t even know that (laugh — by definition, if I am so ignorant that I don’t even know what I am doing, I am not enlightened.)
We are basically talking about 3, the ultimate blissful state of no suffering. (I assume the blessed state is the state of bliss, or peace and joy.) And these days, the idea is not limited to Buddhism. Because suffering originates in ignorance and misinformation, this is related to the 1 definition.
Now, of course, this sounds nice. Who doesn’t want bliss?Who doesn’t want to get rid of suffering?
Why do you want enlightenment?
But then, if you want bliss, why don’t you seek bliss? Seeking enlightenment because you want the bliss that is supposed to come with enlightenment is like buying a box of cereal because you want the toy that comes with it. You can fool kids with this kind of sales strategy, but aren’t you smart enough to know it’s innately easier and simpler to buy the toy itself if you want the toy? Go for the cereal only when you want to eat the cereal.
Part of the reason I wrote “Acceptance Is The Key To Peace And Joy” was to point this out. To show how you can have bliss without complicating the process by the big-fat idea of enlightenment.
And then, I think there are some people who want enlightenment because they think that is what they are supposed to be seeking. In this case, enlightenment is like the fancy gadget advertised for Christmas.
Is enlightenment a holy, mystical experience?
Wikipedia says spiritual enlightenment is:
Spiritual enlightenment means to obtain a spiritual revelation or deep insight into the meaning and purpose of all things, to communicate with or understand the mind of God, to achieve some other type of profound spiritual understanding, or to achieve a fundamentally changed level of existence whereby one’s self is experienced as a nonchanging field of pure consciousness.
It says enlightenment is to “obtain” something good, like “revelation” or deep insight. “To communicate with or understand the mind of God” — that sounds pretty big deal, too. To “achieve” a fundamentally changed level of existence — whoa, will I levitate or something when I am enlightened?
I guess this represents the view of many spiritual “seekers”. Enlightenment is something nice to obtain or achieve. No wonder why some people seek enlightenment without really knowing what it is. Also, this definition of enlightenment implies we are not so nice as we are and enlightenment requires a lot of hard work.
Although this is a common view of enlightenment, many spiritual teachers say something 180 degrees different. Let’s examine . . .
What spiritual teachers say
Let’s see how some of the contemporary spiritual teachers define enlightenment — and how they say we can achieve it!
Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Stillness Speaks
and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
. I’ve read them all, and they are excellent. This quote is from The Power Of Now:
(Enlightenment) is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.
And he says the key to enlightenment is to focus on the Now. Don’t make it to a goal. Totally give up the search of enlightenment and just focus on the present. Here is his youtube video (in the video, he also says enlightenment is an egoless state):
Adyashanti, who is typically considered as a nondualism teacher, says enlightenment, or awakening, is simply not perceiving through the distortion ego makes. In other words, seeing everything as they are. It’s not about altered state of consciousness, but about clear seeing.
What I find interesting in this video is that he maintains enlightenment is NOT a permanent condition. It seems, for him, enlightenment can be a glimpse of egoless state, and after the initial enlightenment, there is a long journey of releasing layers and layers of remaining ego.
So how do we awaken? Adyashanti says, “Quit trying so hard.” He maintains most of the spiritual practices are mind-oriented and therefore prohibits the natural state of awareness. Instead, he suggests a process he calls True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness (meditation with no manipulation of the mind) and meditative self-inquiry.
Ramana Maharshi doesn’t use the term enlightenment, but he talks about Self-realization, which is his way of saying the same thing. For that, he suggests a method called self-inquiry. You are the Self already, so the only thing there is is to realize it.
He also talks about mukti (liberation). This is from Be As You Are:
Liberation is our very nature. We are that. The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound. When we achieve that, there will be no desire or thought of any sort. – Ramana Maharsh
So, again, the same thing — you are already liberated, enlightened, you are the Self, all there is is to realize it by removing false notion.
Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1) series. I am a bit partial with him because I had the opportunity to see him in person at a book signing and was impressed how peaceful and tolerant he really was. He says in this article on enlightenment,
Enlightenment, when it is all said and done, has nothing to do with what you do with your body or your mind. It has to do with what you do with your soul. If you simply love everyone whose life you touch endlessly, unconditionally, with nothing needed or wanted in return, you have become Enlightened.
It’s a hilarious article, in which he discusses Paramahansa Yogananda, transcendental meditation (TM), and more. For him, enlightenment is when you declare you are enlightened. His exact wording; “to be enlightened is to say that you are.”
So what does enlightenment really mean?
This is only a quick view of what some spiritual teachers have to say, not meant to be a comprehensive review. But even this much shows how different these teachers’ definition of enlightenment is from the Wikipedia version.
So when we think about enlightenment, we must first decide which enlightenment we are talking about. Are you talking about the egoless state like many contemporary teachers mean? Are you seeking mystical experience? Or is it just some brilliant insights? (Ultimately, they may be all the same thing, but it is useful, at least in the beginning stage, to be clear what you mean.)
Buddhism enlightenment
Because spiritual enlightenment is originally a Buddhism idea, as the dictionary indicates, let’s see how the original Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, had enlightenment.
In the aforementioned article by Neale Donald Walsch, he mentions Buddha’s enlightenment as a result of non-doing. Prior to this, he tried all the methodologies that were known in his days, including various forms of meditation, physical exercises, and fasting, and failed. Finally, he just sat, and got enlightened — that is to say, he realized he is totally free. “There is nothing that you have to be, do, or have.” Freedom as non-attachment.
Wikipedia has a somewhat different story of Siddhartha Gautama. It says he achieved enlightenment after 49 days of meditation — sounds like he had a strong determination to be enlightened, rather than just sitting like Neale says. Buddhism enlightenment is traditionally summarized in the Four Noble Truth and the Noble Eightfold Path. It’s a lot of do’s and don’t, and highly philosophical (meaning it’s about the mind).
Buddhism also defines enlightenment as the end of reincarnation, or freedom from having have to reincarnate.
Enlightenment as clear realization
I am taking the definition of enlightenment as the freedom from false ideas that cloud my realization of who I am. It may come as a wonderful unusual experience or as a simple realization — it doesn’t matter which.
I have a feeling that my true nature is good, loving and naturally capable of peace and joy, but realizing these qualities are the possible result of enlightenment, not enlightenment itself. In other words, they are like the toys in the cereal box — what I’d like is to have this realization, and if it comes with bliss, that is nice, but that is not what I am after. (I already know how to have unwavering peace and joy.)
Also, if I can realize who I really am, it automatically follows I can realize the true nature of everything. It can be the other way round. Enlightenment is the freedom from false ideas that cloud my realization of anything as it is, including myself.
And when we define enlightenment this way, it is immediately clear that the seeking, or the trying, is counterproductive. This is the second issue about discussing enlightenment. If enlightenment is about realizing who I am, it’s not about trying to become something I am not, it’s not about seeking something outside of myself.
Rather, it’s about how I have been fooling myself.
Stillness or silence
Eckhart Tolle advises to focus on the Now. This is in effect the same as to quit trying, or quit resisting. Everything is as it is right here and now. When I accept this, things are really simple. We complicate things by wandering into the thoughts of the past and the future.
We try or resist because we judge. But how do we really know if any judgment is right or false?
We don’t. They are all in our minds. All the judgments are just stories we make in our mind. We don’t really know if anything is good or bad. We only think we do.
How do things look like without all the stories and judgements?
They just . . . are. It’s a similar feeling of finding I just am after the self-inquiry process. It cannot be put into words. Things are as they are before words define them.
Eckhart Tolle calls it stillness. Ramana Maharshi calls it silence.
The Bible says, “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10), but we might as well say, simply, “Be still and know that I am.”
Lucid dreaming in the human dream
My alternative definition of enlightenment is to wake up from the collective human dream, or the virtual reality simulation game called life.
When you are enlightened, that is to say, when you can clearly see things, including yourself, as they are without all the judgments and stories, you notice the true nature of what we call reality.
The reality is like a dream. You are dreaming, I am dreaming, we are all dreaming the same dream — so it feels real. But it’s a dream. This is why we can mold reality in a way we choose, using methods such as the law of attraction. It’s a dream, so nothing really matters — or, if this expression causes the empty feeling of meaningless, I can also say, as Neale Donald Walsch said in the aforementioned article, you can choose what matters to you. We are free to do so.
Two levels of awakening
In fact, I don’t think I am fully awake from this collective dream. What I am experiencing is the equivalent of lucid dreaming. I can tell it’s a dream, but I am not truly awake. Because if someone is truly awake, he or she would supersede death, like Jesus did. I only know death is another phase of this simulation game.
But then, it’s okay to be in this dream — just wake up from the nightmare of judgments. In other words, notice there is a malware in this simulation game that wasn’t in the original plan and disregard it so that you can fully experience the simulation game. This is what “freedom from false ideas that cloud my realization” means.
We are in this simulation game for a reason, to learn love. When I really learn love, what has to happen will happen, and I don’t need to worry about it now.
Are you enlightened?
What is your definition of enlightenment and are you enlightened by that definition? Let me know your experience of enlightenment. I am very interested what you have to say
By any means, just don’t follow others who say they know the path to enlightenment — that is a very unenlightened way.
Related post:
If you are interested in the two levels of existence that I wrote about toward the end of this article, please check this article — The Second Step of Self Realization.
By the way, enlightenment does NOT mean having no “negative” feelings or personal issues. Here is my followup on this point — The Purpose Of Life Is Life Itself.
12 Steps To Realize Your Higher Self
November 5, 2010 by Akemi · 4 Comments

When you notice you are operating as your Higher Self, as opposed to your usual mode of operation as your ego, you’d feel so different that you won’t miss it. It’s like a layer of a veil is lifted. Things become so clear and brilliant.
In this article, we’ll discuss the method that hopefully lead you to this experience. But first, please know methods are just methods. You may not need a method to experience something. And trying a handful of different methods may not get you to the experience.
The standard approach is meditation. I do believe meditation is the best way to this experience. The trouble is, sometimes you feel so troubled that meditation is the last thing you feel like doing. So what do you do? Just wait until you feel like meditating? Force yourself to meditate?
My new twelve-step program is something that bridges this gap.
The original 12 steps
Let me honor the original twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous before we delve into my new version. Here it is:
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over (alcohol), that our lives had become unmanageable
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Step 5: Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs
Step 6: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character
Step 7: Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others
Step 10: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
Notice there is no step that says, “Made a resolution not to drink again.” This is not a program about quitting drinking or correcting an addictive habit; it’s about leaving the ego-centered way of living and realigning to “God” way.
I heard that, in the beginning, there were only two criteria that were asked to those who wished to join the group and start their recovery:
- Can you not drink for one day?
- Do you believe in a power greater than yourself?
In other words, the focus was to stay in the present and to align with a power greater than oneself. Oneself — the ego self, that is. All the steps are designed to promote these two points, to help a person leave the past regrets and grievances so that he can start afresh each day and to be more God-centered than ego-centered.
This seemingly roundabout approach has been surprisingly successful. Today, there are many types of twelve-step support groups such as Al-Anon (for families of addicts), Narcotics Anonymous, Nicotine Anonymous, and Overeaters Anonymous. (Depending on their addiction, they change the words in the bracket in Step 1.) The program works because all addictions are about the ego.
The nature of ego
The ego is addictive by nature. If nothing else, it is addicted to compulsive thinking, which distracts your attention from the present. The ego does this because the present, the Now, is when the realization of your Higher Self happens.
When you want to realize your Higher Self, then, you want to keep your attention to the Now. My new twelve steps are intended to release you from the compulsive thinking of the ego and to stay put in the Now.
The new 12 steps
Step 1: I admit that the “I” as I think I am, my ego, is unreasonable and has turned my life full of suffering.
Step 2: I believe that a power greater than my ego can restore me to sanity. This power is beyond me and yet within me, my Higher Self, which is one with the loving God.
Step 3: I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand it.
Step 4: I observe my thoughts and feelings, knowing most of them are about my ego and therefore disbelieving them.
Step 5: I admit I acted in ways that caused pain to myself and to the world. I didn’t intend to cause pain, I was only seeking love and comfort. Nonetheless, my actions were conditioned and reactive.
Step 6: I am entirely ready to live as my Higher Self, forgiving all I have done.
Step 7: I humbly ask for divine grace so I may stay aware.
Step 8: I acknowledge I am withholding love from myself and others because of my judgments.
Step 9: I accept the limitations of myself and others, and also the divinity in us all.
Step 10: I choose to live in the Now, and when my ego rises to wander, promptly arrest it.
Step 11: Through yoga and meditation, I tune up the connection of my body, mind and spirit, so I may act as my Higher Self, guided by its brilliance.
Step 12: Having had a spiritual remembering as the result of these steps, I live in childlike ease and joy, and I carry this message to others when appropriate.
Now let’s study each step in details.
Step 1: Most of us live as the ego. In fact, the first “I” that is admitting the ego is unreasonable is still just one aspect of the ego. But we must start somewhere, and acknowledging the ego’s unreasonable, crazy nature is the first step. Our strategy is to give the ego something specific to work on rather than let it work on random problems as it usually does.
If you don’t think the ego is unreasonable, perhaps you haven’t suffered enough. Most of us live in denial. That’s okay — take your time. Watch how your ego creates a problem by thinking and judging and then how it turns around to solve that problem. If you set a fire and then go around screaming “Fire!”, isn’t that crazy and unreasonable?
When you are ready, you might want to make a list of all the craziness in your life. This is admittedly a very painful step. In AA meetings, many big well-established men and women break into tears when they do the first step. This is actually good — the denial is finally giving way to your desire for recovery — in this case, your desire to live as your Higher Self.
Step 2: Again, it’s still an aspect of ego talking, and “believing” is a far cry from really “knowing,” but we need to start somewhere. If you have done Step 1, the first sentence of Step 2 comes easily. The second sentence — well, for now, please just take it as it is written.
Step 3: This is basically the same as the original step. It’s about surrendering. And it’s a very scary step because at this point, you are probably still operating as your ego, and the last thing ego wants to do is to give up any of its power (even though that is only a fake power).
If the resistance is too strong and you cannot do Step 3, please go back to Step 1. You might also want to review your concept of God. Do you really see God as the source of all life, love and intelligence? (If you are allergic to the word “God,” please replace it with the word of your choice, such as Source or Universe.)
Step 4: You want to make it a habit to observe your thoughts in the same way you observe passing thoughts in meditation. No push, no pull, no reacting, just observing. Feel the existence of the “you” who is observing your thoughts. That is not your thinking ego.
In the beginning, you probably slip often and react to your thoughts and feelings. This is why Step 4 is an ongoing step.
Step 5: This step pairs with Step 4. As you observe so many thoughts and notice how you tend to react to them, you might feel bad about yourself. You’ve already done Step 1, and know how crazy things can get when you act on your ego’s cues.
It’s critical at this point to understand that you, like everyone, acted and reacted not because you wanted to cause pain but because you didn’t know better. Yes, your ego drove you crazy and you did some really stupid things. But at the time of acting it, you thought your action would bring some comfort, or at least some relief. No one does anything with the pure intention to cause pain. Even murderers have a reason — at least at the very moment of their action, they thought the action would bring some comfort or relief. Perhaps a stupid reason, but still a reason.
The real problem is we, as egos, are conditioned to think and act in certain ways and we react to our thoughts and feelings. In order words, the real problem is the lack of awareness. (By the way, this step is not about defending murderers but does mean having compassion to all beings.)
Step 6: So we get to the point of really wanting to have this awareness, or to live as our Higher Selves. In order to get there, we need to release the baggage from the past by forgiving ourselves. This is another painful step. Your ego will resist the idea of forgiving yourself — your ego would insist on punishing yourself for all the wrongs you’ve made. And as long as you listen to your ego’s resistance, you are not quite ready yet.
Step 7: The awareness comes by divine grace. It’s not something you can work on or create. That’s just your ego talking, again — the ego loves doing something. And the ego judges if you deserve it or not.
No, at this point, you simply ask or pray so that you can have this awareness. If you really have done Step 6, Step 7 comes naturally.
Step 8: The nature of your Higher Self is the same quality love of God. While the ego makes judgements about people, things, and events, your Higher Self is waiting to just love. Let’s notice that.
For me, this is an ever fresh step. There is more, more, and more love, and even after doing the steps many times, I still notice I am withholding some love, so I do the nest step to open up further.
Step 9: This is another way to say love. As humans, we have limitations. We also have innate divinity. Accepting both aspects means living as your Higher Self in this physical world.
Both aspects. If you find yourself focusing on either one of the aspect, you haven’t got it yet. Step 5 prepares you to accept the limitations in us. Step 2 and 7 prepare you to accept the divinity in us.
The “I” is now shifting to your Higher Self. The “I” who can accept the egos and the Higher Selves in oneself and others is not your ego, it’s your Higher Self. You might take Step 8 and 9 awareness back and forth to really get it.
Step 10: As I explained earlier, the ego doesn’t like the Now and wants to distract you to the past or the future. When this happens, simply notice and get back to the present.
Step 11: What’s good with yoga (or other body-mind-spirit work of your choice) is you intend to move your body in a certain way using your mind, and then you observe your body movement as you observe your thoughts and feelings in Step 4. So it links the body, mind and your Higher Self awareness.
Body awareness is the key. I wrote yoga because I like it, but as long as you use your body, mind, and awareness, you can do the movement of your choice such as tai chi or martial arts. (I’m not interested in the kind of yoga that just does the poses — that is more like aerobics with yoga poses.)
Meditation is also helpful. Hopefully, by the time you get to this step, you are ready to meditate. This is another ongoing maintenance step so you stay in your Higher Self awareness.
Step 12: We are our Higher Selves. This is about remembering this original state, not achieving something new. As your ego created problems decrease, you get to live in childlike ease and joy. (By joy, I don’t mean the temporary jolted feeling you have when you get what you wanted.) This doesn’t mean you are now always your Higher Self. The ego is canny and it will be back. (When it does, it seems to attack with vengeance.)
At this point, you are probably just living your life with the simplicity and audacity of a child, and the people around you may notice. I am not big on marketing, but when someone asks, it may be appropriate to talk about it.
How to work the steps
If you want to practice the 12 steps, this is how:
- Read the 12 steps aloud a couple of times a day, like morning and evening. Soon, you will memorize them. Posting the printout may be helpful, too.
- Do the steps one by one.
- When you feel troubled, emotionally disturbed, stressed, or whenever you can, recite the 12 steps and see where you are. For example: Have I realized how unreasonable my ego is? If not, is what I am going through enough to take Step 1? Or: Am I observing my thoughts and feelings? Oh, I guess I am reacting to them. Let’s do Step 4.
- When you are down to Step 12, start over from Step 1 again. Often, it takes multiple rounds to really get it.
While I heard some stories of immediate and once-for-all enlightenment, my experience is this is a process.
So try it out and let me know how it works for you!
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Ascension Possibilities — What Will You Choose?
August 12, 2010 by Akemi · 9 Comments

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This article is the continuation of Why 2012 Ascension Does Not Matter To Most People. On the personal side, it’s also part 2 of Spiritual Development Paradox. I wish I could get the whole story channeled all in one chunk, but that seems to be too much for me. So here is what I gather at this time. . .
Ascension as the shift to the dimension of love and unity
We currently live in the three dimensional world and with the restriction of time. It’s also the world made with the illusion of separation and consequent dualism.
Pretty soon, we will experience the shift to the higher dimension of love and unity. (The true unity, of course) It’s actually starting to happen already.
What I didn’t know clearly before was EVERYONE will experience this shift. Everyone’s perception and response will be different, but it will happen to everyone. (Some, however, may choose to close themselves up shortly because this is so scary and inconvenient for them, as I will describe in a minute.)
What will the world look like with this shift? I still have a hard time visualizing the world with no time and space restrictions, so let me approach this from a different angle. . .
A glimpse of the New World
In this “New World”, we will sense others’ thoughts and feelings as if they were our own. So there will be absolutely zero room for lying.
It will be extremely hard to do anything violent or abusive. Currently we are numb to others’ feelings (at least to some extent), but what happens if you, for example, say hurtful things and immediately feel the other person’s sadness as if it were yours?
And what happens if you say something manipulative and immediately you know the other person can see your intention clearly? You’d be very uncomfortable, right?
For some people, this is a welcome shift. We are finally going to live in the world of true unity and love. We will still have individuality, but we also share so much.
For some, however, this is a nightmare. They would either have to change their way of living or go into some kind of psycho shock.
Re: spiritual development paradox
Something interesting may happen to those who think they are holier, or more advanced in spiritual development. For one, they will see others can do this telepathic communication just as well as them. Secondly, others can see their arrogance.
I hope they won’t get crushed like the self-centered people.
This is the challenge of this shift happening to everyone. So, if spiritual development means anything, it ought to be about realizing the innate divinity in us all. No one is special — or, everyone is special.
For me personally, I don’t care anymore where I am in the spiritual growth spectrum. I don’t have lifelong career of practicing yoga or other disciplines and I haven’t read all the spiritual books. On the other hand, I can do certain things not many can do, like reading the Akashic Records and clearing the blocks there, so as long as there are people who want my service, I’ll do it. If this means I am just a messenger with no credit to call my own, that’s fine. I’m honored to be a messenger.
What if
We live in subjective reality. The same event can bring out different responses from different people.
The shift of sharing thoughts and feelings is just one example of what may happen in the upcoming Ascension to the dimension of love.
Here are some more scenarios to consider. I am not saying all these things will happen soon (although I think there is a good possibility). But why don’t you spend some time imagining your response if:
- Aliens visit us and offer the travel to their space.
- You get to see auras (the energy of life).
- You can talk with animals and plants.
- Not only animals and plants, you find “things” like sunlight or soil or even your kitchen table have emotions.
- You can fly or astral travel.
- You can heal any ailments and rejuvenate. You don’t even have to die.
Will you find it interesting? Or do you find all unknown beings to be scary and dangerous?
(Whew, I said it! This is something my spirit guides told me back in March when I wrote the aforementioned article on Ascension, but I couldn’t bring myself to mention back then.)
Again, will you find it interesting? Or will you suspect something is wrong with your eyes, believing such skill belongs to someone with years of discipline or special talent?
All these are about living truly in unity and love.
Enlightenment
By the way, this Ascension is not about waking up from the Life Simulation Game. That is about Enlightenment. Ascension is a great shift that would help us understand there is more to life than we know, but it’s not equal to Enlightenment.
So here is a good news — The Shift to the new, higher dimension can happen to us all. And this same news could be a bad news to some. You don’t need “preparation” per se, but the way you think, feel, and live will matter.
Do you have questions about Ascension? I will see if I can check them out with my spirit guides.


