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Throughout history, the shift into wakefulness has often happened to people who were part of religious or spiritual traditions.
Different spiritual traditions explain and interpret this shift in different ways, emphasizing different aspects.
Terms such as spiritual awakening and enlightenment often have different meanings to
different people.
What we wake up from is essentially a state of sleep — a state of constricted, limited awareness, and of discord and suffering.
The collective psychological shift that our ancestors underwent thousands of years ago — the point when human beings began to “fall” asleep — occurred when they lost this sense of connection.
The internal mental atmosphere of the sleep state is a negative one. It’s a dark, dank, and oppressive place, the mental equivalent of a small room with no windows and hardly any light.
In our sleep state there’s also a sense of fear. Our separateness creates a sense of vulnerability and insecurity, of being threatened by the world and by other people.
To experience and enjoy life one has to go through a journey of spiritual awakening to re-calibrate our relation with our-self and the world around us.
