Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

(Darren Dugan) #1

to speak. It is an experience of the transcendental, of
being beyond this world, of being the totality of love
and all of the other qualities we miss-attribute to God,
which is really part of ‘YOU’, yourself.
This is when you may begin to experience amazing
things, such as experiences of the rising of the Self
within one’s own consciousness as an ordinary human
being-witness, and recognizing from some mysterious
place that you are that majestic, awful, huge
energetic being that is rising in you like God with
immense majesty. You cannot take your eyes off of
this ecstatic entity that you are, filled with light, love,
devotion and energy; then follows repeated
experiences thusly of Self-Realization.
However, even this is not the last step. There is
one more.
At some point you realize that all of this
experience, all of the world, all of consciousness
including the various samadhis, blisses, ecstasies, love,
and Self-Realizations are happening to that basic
principle of sentience, that which is aware of the
coming and going of consciousness. Even Turiya is
witnessed, but by what?
Consciousness may come of these huge
experiences, all of these life-changing experiences of
Self-Realization, unity, oneness, bliss, ecstasy, yet

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