Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

This emotionality is perhaps the most difficult level
of our existence we have to explore. This is the level
that is most frightening for most people. This is the
level of our existence that most disturbs us, and it is
what causes most people to run into spirituality in the
first place, to escape emotional suffering.
This is the world of depression, rage, anxiety, fear,
jealousy, hopelessness, helplessness, sorrow, loss, but
also of love, longing, and desire, which can lead to
pure energy states of bliss and ecstasy, which
themselves are created from internally moving oceans
of love, longing and devotion that we begin to feel.
This is the level where psychotherapy works, where
psychotropic medication works, where your devotion
and love lead to increased sensitivity and desire to
feel all of your emotions, no matter how fear
provoking, no matter how frightening, no matter how
dense they appear, because we know that with the full
feeling of them, and the full acceptance of them,
comes increasing fearlessness to experience all the
parts of our self.
This is the most difficult level of all. Very few
people ever completely experience all aspects of their
emotionality that have been repressed since
childhood, by society, convention, and parental
teaching. It is my belief that this area is mostly