Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

with students so that less was known generally about
my relationship with each student. However, the
students themselves were always talking to each other
about their own relationships with me and with others,
so there was no real containing or isolation.
Relevant to this container concept, we need to be
aware that none of us ever functions in isolation. If I
feel anxious or depressed, just my bearing and
presence causes those states to be communicated to
others who are sensitive to me. This then
“contaminates” their own state, which again becomes
communicated to others in a ripple down effect.
Some spiritual people are very empathic. They
become energy workers or Reikian therapists. Some
are almost telepathic. They can feel even well-hidden
emotional states in others, and feel the incongruity of
the hidden emotional state (such as hatred) as
opposed to how a person expresses himself. The more
meditation one does on one’s own sense of presence,
on the ‘I Am’, the more sensitive some people get to
these non-expressed emotional states and the energy-
presence of others.
I am aggression avoidant. I try to avoid conflict if
possible and to smooth over buried conflicts with an
attitude of “out of sight, out of mind.” However, in
such a situation, it will appear to empaths that their
concerns and worries are not being addressed and that