Spiritual Awakening versus Psychic AwakeningĪnother common confusion is between the terms spiritual awakening and psychic awakening. And it’s this return of Spirit that makes us truly human. Spiritual awakening implies the return of what the Taoists call the Original Spirit, or what Jung called the Self. The Taoists call this series of programs the acquired mind-a set of mundane conditioning we collect since birth. That is, the ego is mostly a collection of archetypes, programs, or set patterns of behavior. The average individual is more archetype than human. This awakening occurs when, for whatever reason, the ego somehow let’s go so that a Higher Self or Spirit can arise within. The ego is our exclusive sense of self or “I.” Spiritual awakening, then, is an awakening of a dimension of reality beyond the confines of the ego. But this enlightenment doesn’t mean you’re spiritually awake or psychologically aware. You can have an “enlightened mind” through disciplined study of higher spiritual principles. For now, let’s define the spiritual as a quality of being beyond the physical or material domain of existence.Įnlightenment, too, can mean many different things, but it’s most often associated with cognition. We often link “spirituality” to the context of religion, but in my experience (as we’ll see below), this is problematic. In A Sociable God, for example, Ken Wilber provides nine valid definitions of spirit and spirituality. One of the reasons there’s so much misunderstanding around the topic of spiritual awakening is that we often fail to define relevant terms. Let’s Start with a Few Definitions: Spirituality and Enlightenment Let’s resolve that confusion now and ensure that we’re on the path to authentic spiritual awakening. Of all the topics we cover here, spiritual awakening is perhaps the most misunderstood. What is spirituality? Are there actual signs or symptoms of spiritual awakening?
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