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Autumn 2022 Spiritual Awakening

Seeking a spiritual awakening jackie hillegers offers some advice..

A spiritual awakening is when you realise that nothing external can bring you happiness and to truly be fulfilled in life, you must let go of the ego and surrender to the internal search for happiness and peace. It can be felt through your body, mind and soul, and can make you realise how limited your thoughts and actions have been in the past.

A spiritual awakening can bring up questions such as ‘who am I’ or ‘what is my purpose in this life’? When we truly feel at ease with ourselves, things become more vivid, you are more present and feel very much alive. Famous people who claim to have had spiritual awakenings include Russell Brand, Oprah, Jim Carey and John Lennon.  

One of the first signs of an awakening is when you start to notice and observe patterns happening around you and with your own behaviour. You might be asking yourself, ‘Why do I attract the people I do? Why do I feel angry at the world? Why do I comfort eat and what am I going to do about it?’

You might begin to make life-changes and become more aware of food and health, environmental impacts or political issues.  

Setting yourself up for a spiritual awakening can include making small changes to your daily life such as learning to let go of the past, practicing self-care, being more present or re-examining your values and beliefs.  

Just remember that small changes create a ripple effect, and you may notice bigger changes happening further down the track.  

Your intuition may become more in tune – when you think about a certain person, you often bump into them soon after, and when you wish for something, the energy world seems to connect your thoughts with reality.  

Now is more important than ever to go back to some of the basics in life – to change or maintain a constant and happy state of mind.  

As we age our playful child-like mind slowly turns into one of worry and stress and we forget to enjoy our simple, uncomplicated surroundings.  

Instead of searching for an external materialistic paradise we need to find that internal paradise waiting to be discovered. Let go of attachments that define you and just let the universe guide you to your destination.  

Here are some ways you can support a spiritual awakening:

Placing words on the fridge such as ‘curiosity’, ‘presence’ or ‘gratitude’ can remind us that the world has so much to offer and explore.  

Do you remember as a child being totally lost in time while using our imagination to create fictional scenes in our heads, living for each moment instead of thinking ahead and only stopping play to satisfy our hunger?

Those beautiful memories are stored in our minds forever and when replayed they bring a sense of fulfilment and happiness that can still be recreated.  

SIMPLICITY  

Summer in Queensland was mild this year – a much cooler breeze emerged and short, violent storms and torrential rain presented themselves sporadically. Our grass is certainly greener and heavy rain has created flowing streams through stagnant waters. These things are simple but oddly beautiful in the wake of a stressful, ever-changing world.  

I seek the sound of water moving and hitting rocks when out walking my dog and it is one of the most peaceful sounds to connect more with nature. These are those small pocket moments we need to focus on to be a spiritual thinker – we need to slow down our racing minds and look for these hidden moments and unnoticed treasures.  

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER  

If you feel like your life is lacking purpose and you feel incomplete, spend time working more on yourself and investing in your own self-love. The library is filled with Wellness books, spiritual books and positive mentor books to guide you! A change only begins when you are ready to make it, and now is the best time to start to awaken your spiritual side and glow from the inside out.  

WAYS TO BECOME MORE SPIRITUAL

• Explore your surroundings  

• Practice Yoga or Pilates  

• Volunteer in your community  

• Think regular positive thoughts  

• Look for deeper meanings  

• Mindfulness Meditation  

• Be more in touch with your inner core  

• Think about your purpose in life  

• Let life guide you rather than control it

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Explore the wonderful new world of bars, restaurants, live music, coffee shops, fashion boutiques, home designs, laneways, night markets, health and fitness, street art and photo galleries in Noosa Junction.

It’s home to local businesses and services who are ready to meet you, including the friendly teams from The Linen House, Nowak Migration, Symbolic Journey, Noosa Doctors and Skin Cancer Surgery, and Noosa Fair Shopping Centre.

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Good Shepherd Lutheran Church has been actively caring for the spiritual needs of the Noosa community since 1985.

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How to Transform Your Life Through a Spiritual Awakening

What it actually looks like to become more spiritual

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What Does a Spiritual Awakening Feel Like?

Understanding the process of spiritual awakening, making your awakening a part of your daily life, how to nurture a spiritual awakening, overcoming challenges in the spiritual awakening journey.

Who doesn’t love a way of thinking that benefits your mental health, and is calming and centering?

Almost 75% of American adults say they want to grow spiritually, according to a 2022 Barna survey. Close to 80% of U.S. adults say they believe in a higher power, per the same survey. Forty-five percent of U.S. adults say they’ve had a time when they’ve felt some sort of spiritual connectedness.

You may be a part of that number that is searching for and finding a spiritual connection. You may even say that as a result of seeking, you’ve experienced a spiritual awakening.

“A spiritual awakening is an experience that shifts a person’s basic presupposition about the nature of reality or the meaning of life, often through encountering a situation that supplies a sense of resolution to what had previously been challenges,” explains Daniel Boscaljon, PhD , executive coach and co-founder of Alchemy of Love. This change in mindset that often occurs with a spiritual awakening can not only impact how you think, but also your mental health. 

A spiritual awakening … allows a calm and confident acceptance of where you are in life. It is spiritual because what changes is your attitude and not the material circumstance that had previously [caused] difficulties

But even if you find yourself making those changes, and focusing on a higher power, does that mean you’re having a spiritual awakening? We take a look at what it feels like to go through this experience, the benefits and potential challenges of a spiritual awakening, and how you can make your new mindset a part of your everyday lifestyle.

A spiritual awakening can be as simple as you feeling more in touch with nature and humanity, and finding that you are more filled with compassion for your fellow man. It could also be that you discover or strengthen your belief in a higher power, and that higher power, whether it’s God, Jesus, Allah, or Buddha, is a major part of your thought and decision-making process. You could also have a full-blown conversion experience, and your entire view of the world and your life shifts in line with your newfound religious beliefs.

After a spiritual awakening, your thinking begins to align with what you are feeling.

“A spiritual awakening offers a new appreciation for the future potential. [For] many people who are in despair, suffering from a loss of hope, [or] feel that there is no meaning in life … a spiritual awakening can provide a renewed sense of meaning relative to your passions, generating a renewed sense of purpose,” states Dr. Boscaljon. “This sort of awakening often benefits mental health by restoring a sense of inner confidence in your own capabilities,” he adds.

An awakening can make you feel hopeful about life and your future. It often feels like you have a newfound sense of empowerment.

Research shows that spirituality benefits your mental health by giving you strength in difficulties and making you feel connected to others with similar beliefs. Spirituality can also have a positive psychological impact and reduce levels of depression. The process of becoming more spiritually attuned or enlightened often leads you on a focused quest for growth, development, and introspection.

“When you become aware of the flow of nature, and you start to work with this awareness, you can begin to set more deliberate intentions of what you want. Instead of getting upset about the things that are not working, you can use them as a springboard to ask yourself, ‘What do you want instead?’,” says Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW , integrative mental health clinician at Cannectd Wellness.

When you become aware of the flow of nature, and you start to work with this awareness, you can begin to set more deliberate intentions of what you want.

Navigating the journey of a spiritual awakening is about more than just you. Your life and your actions become focused on a greater sense of inner peace, that ultimately makes an outward difference. That thought process gets to the root of the mindset that often comes with a spiritual experience.

Having this experience that is amazing and life-altering for you is one thing; figuring out how to implement it into your everyday life is something else. The key, however, is to make a deliberate decision on where and how you want to integrate it and not be overwhelmed in the process.

Start Your Day With a Focus on Mindfulness

“This could involve meditating for a few minutes , where you focus on breathing and invite the life force to cleanse your mind of negative thoughts. Express your willingness to release these thoughts and replace them with positive, constructive ones. You can use the specific affirmation, ‘Please take this mind chatter so that I can be focused and get my work done instead. I am willing to release this chatter and focus my mind on my work’,” Kaplan suggests. In this way, you clear your mind and invite thoughts with a spiritual focus into your presence.

Set a Purposeful Agenda for the Day

Knowing what you want to accomplish, and how you want to do it, allows you to make sure your actions align with your spiritual beliefs. In addition, if prayer and meditation are a part of your new spiritual lifestyle, you can make sure you add it to your schedule.

Find Someone Further Along in the Same Spiritual Journey to Help Guide You

For example, if you have had a new awakening and have just become a Christian, you can spend time with someone who is established in their faith and can mentor you. “These guides often provide a conversational space that allows doubts and confusions to be voiced and held without a need to answer or respond to them. This allows an increased tolerance of uncertainty that is often useful as a psychological response to an awakening,” advises Dr. Boscaljon. Finding a mentor can also help you navigate challenges after having a spiritual awakening. A mentor can also help you continue to press forward when the newness of the awakening wears off and it can seem harder to stay the course.

Put Tenets of Your Beliefs Into Practice

If your spiritual awakening involves being a more compassionate, less selfish person, put that into practice. Can you volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate time and items to a shelter, or contribute financially to an orphanage? Can you take an international missions trip, or work to build a house with Habitat for Humanity? The key here is putting action behind your beliefs.

These same practices can help you to nurture your spiritual awakening. By continually putting these actions to work in your life, you strengthen your beliefs behind your awakening.

• Nurturing it includes incorporating actions that are a part of your everyday life. For example, thinking before you speak so that your words can be kinder and less judgmental is a good way to see your actions grow and line up with your beliefs.
• Along the same lines, you can choose to speak words that edify, following the adage that says if you can’t say something nice, then you shouldn’t speak at all.
• You can also choose to pay it forward, which involves doing something nice for someone with no expectation of getting anything in return. These are seemingly small actions that can help you grow in your new spiritual mindset.

Even in the course of experiencing growth, you can still deal with challenges along the way. You may see changes in close relationships, especially if you now see life differently and behave differently with those friends or family members. You may also have people who don’t believe you’ve really experienced internal, spiritual change, which can be hurtful to you.

“One way to overcome the challenge is to work on suspending social relations in favor of cultivating your inner world. Taking some time in solitude can help to reground your sense of personal identity without the noise from those outside,” says Dr. Boscaljon.

Another way “to overcome the challenge is to find a trusted guide with experience in spiritual awakenings or the process of identity transformation. These guides often provide a conversational space that allows doubts and confusions to be voiced and held without a need to answer or respond to them,” he adds.

“A spiritual awakening awakens us to what matters most in this life. It reminds us that what’s most important of all is our relationship with ourselves, [with] each other, to our world, and to a transcendental force. What matters most is bringing loving compassion to all these many relationships,” concludes Carl Nassar, PhD, LPC , founder of The Great Culture Lab.

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How to Start Your Spiritual Journey (7 Illuminating Steps)

by Mateo · May 18, 2024 · 215 Comments

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? – Rumi

Welcome, dear spiritual wanderer.

You’ve come to this page seeking guidance, and that’s what we intend to give you wholeheartedly.

Before you begin, we want to honor your self-sovereignty and inner instincts , so:

Please remember to not accept anything as being “true” that I write or anything that anyone on the spiritual journey says/writes/teaches without first checking in with your own inner knowing.

No one is infallible, no matter what degree of awakening they have embodied, so I strongly encourage you to think for yourself, find out for yourself, and always, always trust your intuition. (This advice can save you a lot of pain on your journey!)

With that said:

If you’re short on time, scroll down to see the Table of Contents . Otherwise, I guarantee that this article is worth reading from start to finish (that’s why it’s the ‘Start Here’ page!).

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Let’s begin with the uncomfortable truth:

Most of us in the modern world have resigned ourselves to a cliched existence, indulging in endless distractions.

We go through life with minimal or pseudo-faith and avoid comprehending the emptiness of our lives. We are endlessly haunted by the shallowness of our relationships, neurotic issues, and  inescapable loneliness.

And yet there’s so much more to us as a species than what we really know.

You and I carry the most mysterious and magnificent qualities within us imaginable. Yet, we unknowingly guard and protect the greatest gift that is our  Souls from the world.

It’s so easy for us to feel meaningless when we perceive ourselves as mere cogs in society’s machine.

The truth is that we are much more than slaves of 9 to 5 jobs. We are capable of creating deeply meaningful, mystical, and fulfilling lives. We are capable of finding our true calling and personal destiny.

For centuries, indigenous people throughout the world have known that to fully explore the depths of the Soul and reunite with Spirit, we must go on a spiritual journey into the unknown lands within ourselves.

Many ancient cultures had Elders and Shamans to encourage and oversee these journeys toward a deeper spiritual existence.

Sadly, these days in our own culture, we have lost such sacred rites and rituals. Instead, orthodox religion has replaced living  spirituality with a theoretical god , dismissing, and outlawing personal experimentation and union with the Divine.

On this page, my aim is to help you start navigating your spiritual journey, be a lone wolf, and listen to your soul’s calling to reunite with Spirit.

(If you need extra in-depth support after reading this article, I highly recommend checking out our All-in-One Bundle and Shadow & Light Membership – these offerings can offer tremendous illumination and empowerment on your journey.)

Table of contents

What is the spiritual journey, 12 signs you’re called to the spiritual journey (the ancient hero/ine’s path), the 3 worlds of the spiritual journey (which are you inhabiting), inner work vs. soul work, 5 phases of the spiritual wanderer’s journey, how to start your spiritual journey (7 steps).

The spiritual journey is a personal quest we undertake to reconnect with our Souls, release attachment to the ego, and rediscover our True Nature .

In a nutshell, the spiritual journey is about returning to the Centre of our being : it’s a path traditionally undertaken by saints, shamans, mystics , and sages.

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But in this day and age where times have changed, and we’re suffering from collective soul loss , the spiritual journey is open and accessible to all people (and no longer just ascetics, monks, and other holy people).

Indeed, listening to our Soul’s calling of reuniting with Spirit is our deepest longing and highest calling as a species.

People have felt a pull toward something greater than themselves since the beginning of time.

Ancient cultures had many stories that illustrated the journey to fulfilling one’s destiny and experiencing Wholeness or Enlightenment . These journeys are what mythologist Joseph Campbell described as the “ Calls to Adventure. “

A call to adventure is something we all experience at least once in life. When we embark on this adventure, we begin the process of gaining self-understanding, reclaiming our precious Soul gifts, and dissolving the blockages that obscure our Inner Light.

The archetype of the hero/heroine discovering their true spiritual nature goes back thousands of years.

The Greeks told the story of Orpheus , who descended into the underworld to rescue his bride, Eurydice, from Hades. The Nordic people had their hero-warrior Beowulf , and the Sumerians wrote of Inanna , who battled her sister in the dark world.

Throughout history, there have been so many stories of individuals who have struggled through hardship to find themselves. But of what importance are they to our path?

Essentially, these hero/ines symbolize our spiritual journeys , that is, leaving everything familiar behind, entering the unknown, encountering numerous unconscious monsters, and finally returning back home with a sense of renewed fulfillment and wisdom.

Here are 12 signs you’re being called to walk the spiritual journey of awakening:

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• You feel lost in life
• You long for a place that feels like your ‘true home’
• You keep wondering what your meaning or purpose is
• You feel like you have a big destiny to fulfill (which is yet to be revealed)
• You sense that there’s much more to life than meets the eye
• You’re experiencing strange synchronicities, signs, and omens
• You’re shedding your old self and you’re transforming, but you don’t know who you truly are yet
• There’s a sense of nostalgia and nagging longing for something you can’t pinpoint
• You experience bouts of melancholy, depression, and existential crisis
• You feel extra sensitive and fragile
• A lot of what you once valued seems meaningless and empty
• It feels like the rug has been pulled out from underneath you, and you’re falling into a void

Can you relate to any of the above signs? If you can, you’re most certainly being called to embark on the spiritual journey.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi 

At some point in life, we all experience the “call to adventure.”

Often, our journeys start when we experience a sudden  spiritual awakening , kundalini awakening , or dark night of the soul . Often, without wanting to, we are cast onto the path of inner exploration.

Like you, I have wandered these paths and have, at times, wound up lost and confused. For this reason, I find it useful to map out the spiritual journey in a way that helps the human mind know where it is and where it will go next.

My Andean ancestry speaks of three worlds that we can experience in life: the Upper World (Hanaq Pacha), the Middle World (Kay Pacha), and the Lower World (Ukhu Pacha).

In many traditions and mythologies, these three worlds correspond to the different realms of Self.

The Upper World is the home of Spirit, the Underworld the home of Souls, and the Middle World is the home of the physical body and human ego .

Different practices and techniques are used in each of the three realms to help us spiritually mature and rediscover joy, peace, and nondual wholeness .

Below, I’ll explore each of these three realms with you:

Middle World

Purpose: Personality development

In our everyday lives, we function within the middle world. The middle world is responsible for our ego development, and yet many people on the spiritual path ignore this vital element of inner growth.

Without developing a healthy personality, our spiritual growth reaches a dead end because we are more prone to falling into many spiritual traps and pitfalls down the line (such as spiritual narcissism , spiritual materialism, and more).

In life, we all begin within the middle world or physical realm. As children and teenagers, we go through various years of personality change and growth.

Finally, as adults, we have all developed unique personalities. Yet many of us fail to continue our self-development, getting lost in corporate jobs and the pursuit of money, status, and fame.

The goal of the middle world path is to develop a healthy personality or ego. Tasks involved in this process include the exploration of core emotional wounds, self-love , and the cultivation of authenticity.

A healthy adult ego will be able to love freely, be vulnerable, express creativity, and display empathy towards others – which are vital in every area of life.

We cannot develop a healthy personality by using techniques from the Upper or Under World, such as meditation or shadow work.

Instead, we must use inner work techniques that pertain to ego development and healing, such as assertiveness training, non-violent communication techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, NLP, and other psychological avenues of self-development.

Under World

Purpose: Soul discovery

Our Soul is the vital, mysterious, and wild core of our individual selves. It is the unique essence within each of us that goes deeper than our personalities.

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Think of your Soul as a stream that is connected to the ocean of Spirit. Our Souls contain our destiny, purpose, gifts, and the ultimate significance of our individual lives. To access these deep layers and qualities, we must descend into the Under World of our unconscious minds.

Unfortunately, for thousands of years, our culture has “protected” us from the hardships and dangers of the descent into the Soul. This has been done through the establishment of comfortable, predictable, and clockwork lives that revolve around material pleasures and shallow values.

In fact, thanks to religious thought, the descent into our Under Worlds has been condemned as “evil” and wayward.  Only Shamanic cultures and a few Western mystical schools like Hermeticism and Alchemy have dedicated themselves to exploring the Under World.

The descent into the Under World has been so feared and avoided because it is a perilous journey. There is a reason why Christianity referred to this place as “hell.”

Within our Under Worlds lie our repressed thoughts, feelings, desires, traumas, and denied gifts. Often when we descend, or inscend, into ourselves, we come across many demons, ghastly creatures, and other parts of our Shadow Selves that we’ve been unconsciously hiding from.

Yet despite the fact that the Under World journey can be such a harrowing and haunting experience, it is ultimately a powerful odyssey. Only by descending into our personal Under Worlds can we truly embrace our true life calling, talents, gifts, and deepest values.

Under World, or deeper inner work techniques, include practices that allow us to access altered states of consciousness . These may include practices such as  lucid dreaming , drumming, shadow work , shamanic trances, breathwork , vision quests, etc.

Upper World

Purpose: Uniting with Spirit

The Upper World journey, or that of the ascent, is what we often refer to as Self-Realization .

There comes a moment in our journey between the middle world and the underworld in which an equilibrium or inner spaciousness forms , allowing us to move up into the Upper World.

For example, it’s much harder to spiritually awaken to the Upper World when our unconscious minds are plagued with deep childhood traumas (that stem from the underworld), trust issues (under world problem), and poor self-esteem (middle world problem).

The practice of inner work is what allows this inner space to emerge because it dissolves the contractions of the ego that hide our True Nature as Divine Consciousness.

We enter the path of ascent up into the Upper World when we learn to surrender our ego identification (known as ego death ) and Soul identification.

It’s at this point of the path that soul work is needed – soul work, in this case, refers to doing the soul’s work of letting go, opening, and merging back into its original home of Spirit.

The experience and realization that the personal identity (or ego) is an illusory thought construct, and who we truly are is Infinite Consciousness, is what has been referred to as Self-Realization , Christ Consciousness , Buddha Nature, Nirvana, or Enlightenment.

This shift of consciousness involves our Infinite, Divine, Eternal, and Absolute Nature awakening from the dream of the separate egoic self.

Techniques used to induce this inner shift of being are often found in the mystical schools of Zen, Kundalini, Taoism , Sufism, and disciplines such as meditation, self-inquiry , and yoga.

Note:  Unfortunately, many people in the spiritual community believe that spiritual ascension is all that is needed to experience peace and wholeness. As a result, the middle world and under world paths have been cast aside as if they don’t matter.

However, only focusing on your “higher chakras,” cultivating positivity and Oneness with Spirit , creates lopsided individuals. When the darker and more down-to-earth elements of self-growth are ignored, the result is imbalanced and unhealthy individuals .

As such, here on lonerwolf, we try to focus on exploring all three realms (the middle, under, and upper world) to create balance.

In the previous section, I mentioned inner work and soul work a few times. But what’s the difference? And how do both relate to the spiritual journey?

Within this website and the work of Aletheia and I, inner work refers to the active exploration, illumination, and dissolution of blockages within the psyche.

Inner work is a psychological process that helps us to heal and find inner harmony and wholeness on a human level.

Examples of inner work practices include the practice of self-love, inner child work, shadow work, body work, and anything that involves actively finding and releasing the contractions within the mind.

On the other hand, soul work is the more passive and receptive process of opening, surrendering, and resting within our True Nature (also known as Consciousness, Presence, Nondual Awareness, and Spirit).

Soul work is, quite literally, doing the soul’s work of remembering and returning back to Source as our Ultimate Home and True Nature.

Examples of soul work practices include self-inquiry, prayer, contemplation, meditation, mirror work, and anything that involves cultivating a sense of being .

Both inner work and soul work are needed on our spiritual journeys to help us both wake up on a spiritual level and grow up on a human level.

To avoid lopsided development and getting possessed by unresolved inner shadows (which can and do arise no matter what level of realization we’ve had), we need to explore both our human psychology and relax into our birthless, deathless True Nature.

Inner work makes the inner space for soul work to take place. Soul work helps to illuminate and sharpen our inner work.

Both go hand-in-hand and are vital allies on our spiritual awakening journeys. As you get familiar with this website and our work, you’ll hear about both inner work and soul work.

Roughly speaking, there are about five phases of the spiritual journey (although, of course, there could be many more – but I’m just sharing the phases I’m presently aware of).

I refer to these as ‘ phases ‘ and not stages because the spiritual wanderer’s journey is not a linear process that has a start and end; it is cyclical. It’s like the moon. It’s a spiraling dance of energy that is ever-deepening and changing – there is no “end,” even after you’ve had an enlightened shift in awareness.

Here’s a visual diagram of the Wanderer’s Journey , which is the spiritual wheel of transformation that we base our work around on this website:

Below, you’ll find the five phases ruled by the Seeker, Apprentice, Warrior, Mystic, and Sage archetypes.

I’ve also linked each phase to the ten different parts of the journey that Aletheia and I have discovered, crystallized, and defined after many years on the path:

1. Soul-searching

(Ruled by the Seeker archetype.)

This phase is divided into the following two parts (also linked to on the Wanderer’s Journey page). Feel free to click on any for further guidance:

• The Spiritual Calling
• Resisting the Path

Summary: Phase one of the spiritual journey begins with a deep craving and longing for something more than mundane daily life.

There may be a sense that life has become a dry, desolate, meaningless, and barren wasteland without some kind of spiritual dimension.

This type of existential crisis can arise spontaneously due to a traumatic situation, mental or physical health issues, or simply due to one’s sensitive temperament.

The result is a search for meaning, purpose, and greater spiritual connection – or what is commonly known as soul searching .

2. Awakening & learning

(Ruled by the Apprentice archetype.)

• Finding Guidance
• Starting the Journey

Summary: Awakening and learning is the next phase of the spiritual journey. Once one has listened to the ‘call to adventure’ and has begun searching for answers, the sense of inner deadness and stagnation lifts. The veil is pulled from our eyes. We awaken to fresh possibilities, new horizons, and deep insights.

There is renewed hope, ecstatic zest for life, joyful anticipation, and a passion for learning, exploring, and growing. It’s as if the sun has finally emerged from its slumber, and we’re bathed in the dawning light of spiritual awakening .

3. Death & demons

(Ruled by the Warrior archetype.)

• Turning Inwards
• Facing the Darkness

Summary: As our spiritual journey matures, we eventually face a crossroads. To continue growing, we must enter through the gates of our personal Underworld and face our demons. We learn that the spiritual journey is beautiful, yes. But it’s also demanding.

If we’re sincere about authentic spiritual growth, we need to illuminate our inner darkness, explore our shadow selves, and heal our buried traumas. This death of the spiritual ‘high’ of the previous phase can lead to much fear and confusion.

The result is often an experience of the Dark Night of the Soul , a glimpse of ego death , or even a spiritual emergency where we step out of the ‘sunshine and rainbows’ world into the moonlit world of ghosts and ghouls.

4. Rebirth & reward

(Ruled by the Mystic archetype.)

• Illumination
• Traps & Pitfalls

Summary: Eventually, we emerge from the other side of the Dark Night of the Soul, existential crisis, or ego death glimpse. We have been to hell and back and we’ve had our hearts ripped open and our minds excavated. But we arise victorious with heart and Soul blazing bright with clarity.

This rebirth and reward phase often results in mystical experiences , moments of Satori (Enlightened awareness), and blissful heart openings.

We may go through a new level of awakening, this time at an energetic level, via an experience known as the Kundalini awakening .

However, this experience is not all love and light. There are many lurking shadows and spiritual traps to be wary of .

5. Illumination & sharing

(Ruled by the Sage archetype.)

• Integration

Summary: After the body, heart, and mind undergo this cleansing and purging journey, a deeper level of Illumination may begin to arise within us. We’ll begin to integrate all the lessons we’ve learned, bringing them into our daily lives.

This is the moment where we truly start walking the talk, integrating both the human and Divine aspects of our lived experience. As such, there is a strong desire within us to share what we’ve realized through the grace of Divinity (our True Nature) with those who need support.

We may adopt the role of teacher, guide, creator, or mentor – or otherwise, embrace new ways of helping others through the power of creativity.

Perhaps the key defining quality of this phase is a strong connection to one’s True Nature and sometimes a non-dual shift in awareness. There’s an intimate, inner-lived experience of the Divine as one’s true face, authentic essence , and ultimate home.

Again, the above five phases are by no means linear or static – they are cyclical and ever-deepening. Gradually, we discover that we are Life itself and that what we have longed and searched for has always been right here, right now !

Everyone’s spiritual journey is unique, ever-changing, and ongoing.

There is no single point at which we stop this inner transformation. In fact, the whole mistaken idea of reaching a state of “perfection” really only equals death and stagnation.

And what happens when things stop growing and flowing? They become lethargic, break down, rot, and disintegrate.

While the demands for constant growth and evolution may be difficult to handle at times, they are necessary grit for the inner pearl to develop.

If you wish to find truth, peace, profound love, deep freedom, and your ultimate home, beginning your spiritual journey is not only important but crucial.

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Understandably, you might feel a bit intimidated and lost, not knowing where to start. As someone who has been on the spiritual journey for a long time and who has devoted their entire life’s work to the inner call, here are my tips:

1. Be gentle and go at your own pace

It’s normal to feel overwhelmed and a little inundated by the influx of information when first beginning your spiritual journey. My advice is to go slowly, be gentle, and go at your own pace. You don’t need to know every tiny detail of every field of wisdom ever created. (I know it’s tempting!)

Besides, everything that you’re learning about is already within you. Yes, you have all the answers you need at a Soul level because you are an expression of the Divine at your core. Everyone else is just a mirror of that.

So cut yourself some slack. The key is to go gently but deeply – that is how you will learn and grow the most.

2. Tune into the deepest yearning of your heart – your holy longing

What is it that you truly, deeply yearn for, above all else? What is the most ancient longing of your heart and Soul?

There are a myriad of reasons why people enter the spiritual journey, many of them stories created by the mind to build a better-looking ego.

But beneath the desires of the mind, what does your heart want? Your heart is the doorway to your Soul, and your Soul is a unique expression of Spirit. So listen to your heart’s yearnings.

How do you listen to your heart? One of the best ways is to place a soft hand over your heart, let all thoughts go, and drop into a sense of stillness. Then ask yourself, “What is it that I truly, deeply yearn for, above all else?”

Do you long for peace, truth, freedom, love, happiness, healing, or something else? There are no right or wrong answers. The heart wants what it wants.

But be aware that the mind may jump in and try to concoct a bunch of ideas, artificial longings, and idealistic stories. What you need to do is listen for the still, small, quiet voice within that responds with gentle clarity (not the loud, anxious, and abrasive voice of the mind).

Finding your holy longing will provide you with the fuel and compass to direct your spiritual search.

Instead of being outwardly led by the egoic self, you’ll be inwardly led by the heart and Soul. You may even find that as you progress through your spiritual journey, your holy longing will evolve and mature. Let it!

3. Pay attention to philosophies, tools, or practices that intrigue you

Once you’ve figured out your holy longing, simply pay attention. Notice what spiritual fields, ideas, philosophies, and practices call to you that relate to your deepest calling.

The spiritual journey doesn’t have to be something dry, monotone, and repetitive (unless you want it to be). This is a quest that can be playful, joyful, and passionate.

In fact, you’ll likely get the most out of your spiritual path if you approach it from this heart-centered place.

Neuroscience has proven that we learn the most when we’re having fun – so find your bliss. Walk a path with heart. This is the path you’re meant to be on.

4. Go deep-diving

One of the main issues that often arises on the spiritual path is a certain kind of spiritual materialism or spiritual window-shopping .

Jumping from practice to practice can be useful at the beginning (to become familiar with the territory).

But if we get into the addictive habit of finding the “next and best” spiritual practice , tool, workshop, etc., we are doing ourselves a great disservice.

We are not only approaching spirituality with a materialistic mindset, but we’re also avoiding the fundamental purpose of the spiritual path: to discover our True Nature.

Once you’ve done some dabbling here and there (this might involve watching YouTube videos, reading books, attending workshops, etc.), it’s time to slow down and commit to something.

Don’t worry if you discover later down the road that the path you’re on is not for you – remember that you can always change routes.

What’s important is that you slow down and commit to something to begin with – this is the only way to extract the nutrients, deep essential truths, and embodied wisdom that contribute to your awakening.

So go deep-diving and commit to something all the way through to the end. What paths, practices, and teachings speak to you on a profound level? What has benefited you the most?

Begin to circle around that topic, practice, or path and dedicate your full attention to it. (And if there are a handful of paths, that’s okay too; stick with them, although it’s generally best to keep your focus simple.)

5. Be aware of sharks

You’ll meet many people on your spiritual path (whether online or in the flesh), and while some of these people will genuinely have your best interests in mind, others won’t.

Yes, there are many ‘spiritual sharks’ out there, aka., there are sleazy, snake-oil salesmen and women who are incentivized to use you for personal gain.

There are also some people – typically leaders of spiritual communities or certain gurus – who are totally unaware of their unconscious shadow motivations (but are equally as dangerous). So be discerning.

Learn to trust your intuition and gut instincts . Tap into your inner lone wolf : that primal wisdom you carry inside that drove you to begin this quest to begin with.

Even if you do fall into the jaws of a shark, know that you can get out. Not only that, but you can actually use the experience as a lesson and fuel to grow even stronger.

No one can take away your power from you unless you willingly give it to them. And even if you do, you can get it back.

6. Record what you’ve learned and experienced

We hear a lot of pretty-sounding words and mystical ideas on the spiritual path. But all of them mean little if we don’t actively find ways of absorbing them into our being.

One of the simplest ways of recording what you’ve learned and experienced is simply through the act of journaling .

Have a special journal or diary that you dedicate to writing down your thoughts, experiences, ideas, and discoveries. You don’t need to be a good writer (or even good at spelling/grammar) to do this – forget about that!

What matters is that you have a solid record that you can refer back to throughout your journey. (Learn more about how to journal .)

There are also other ways of recording what you’ve learned and experienced, such as creating pieces of art or composing music.

Find whatever creative outlet suits you the most – that might even include creating a vlog where you go into your daily experience (and you can keep this private or share it with others).

Here are a variety of inner work Journals that we’ve created that might help you get started. »

7. Integrate and embody your spirituality

It’s easy to go spiritual window shopping and jump onto whatever new and exciting bandwagon emerges. But it takes much more strength of character, sincerity, and courage to integrate and embody what you’ve learned actively.

To integrate means to absorb something into your being and to make it a living and breathing part of you.

To embody means to be an expression of what you have learned: to be the change you’re looking for, to infuse your life with the essence of what you’ve discovered.

There are numerous ways to integrate and embody your spirituality, but remember that this is an organic process that takes time. You cannot rush or force spiritual integration or embodiment – it is the natural product of spiritual ripening and maturation.

There are, however, numerous ways to begin the integration and embodiment part of your journey. Some of these inner work and soul work practices include:

• Mindfulness
• Contemplation
• Shadow Work
• Inner child work
• Self-Inquiry

Anything that helps you to slow down, be introspective, and go inwards while encouraging present-moment awareness will help you to integrate and embody what you experience.

Instead of being a magical-sounding idea, you will actively live and express qualities such as lovingkindness, presence, and wisdom. But first, you need to be sincere and dedicated to this path.

In my honest opinion, no spiritual journey is balanced (or healthy) without some level of psychological healing.

We need to focus not just on ascending to the Upper World but also on working with the Middle and Under World . See the following articles for more guidance:

• What is Inner Work? (& Why Most People Are Terrified By it)
• Spiritual Psychology: Why Meditation Isn’t Enough

The Spiritual Journey is a Valley, Not a Mountain

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows. ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Contrary to popular depiction, the spiritual journey isn’t like climbing a mountain.

We rarely start at the bottom and climb to the top. Instead, for most of us, the spiritual journey is like hiking through a series of beautiful but perilous range of valleys.

Our spiritual journeys alternate between periods of descending and ascending.

In one period of our lives, we may cultivate our connection with Spirit, while in other parts, we may descend to the Soul to heal core wounds or the middle world to develop self-care .

Finally, it is very possible and also quite common to get hung up in these valleys. Many of us become lost, distracted, and even forget why we were trying to get to the top of the mountain in the first place. (See our article on traps of spiritual growth for more guidance.)

However, with the appropriate guidance, sincerity, and persistence, we can make our way through.

In the end, you’ll find that the spiritual journey is like a mystical marriage between the ego, the Soul, and the Spirit. One cannot exist without the other. The whole experience is a nondual expression of Life living itself.

I truly hope this guide has given you a place to start. This whole website is based on giving free guidance for the spiritual awakening journey, so please feel welcome to poke around and learn some more.

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Lenny kravitz reveals 9-year celibacy streak, on spiritual journey, lenny kravitz i've been celibate for 9 years.

Lenny Kravitz might be a well-known sex symbol ... but that’s kinda fading in light of this news -- namely, him being celibate for a whopping 9 years while on his spiritual journey.

The music icon says he's ditched casual flings for nearly a decade until he finds the right woman -- a move inspired by his dad, NBC news producer Sy Kravitz , cheating on his mom, Roxie Roker , a well-known actress famous for her starring role in "The Jeffersons."

Reflecting on the infidelity, Lenny told The Guardian his dad predicted he’d end up living the same lifestyle, and it turned out to be true. After his marriage to Lisa Bonet fell apart in 1991, Lenny acknowledged he began acting like a player.

LK said he wasn't fond of that lifestyle and it took him years to take responsibility and shed that label ... making sure his own desires didn't take over.

And all this discipline has incredibly led him to a 9-year streak of celibacy, saying, "It's a spiritual thing. I've become very set in my ways, in the way I live." It goes without saying ... he hasn't been in a serious relationship for 9 years either ... so, basically nada.

After the notorious heartthrob's marriage to Bonet ended, he charmed his way through Hollywood ... going on to date Vanessa Paradis . He was even engaged to bombshells Adriana Lima and Nicole Kidman before things fizzled out.

At 60, it looks like Lenny's mission to find the one is still ongoing, but it seems like he's loving the celibate life too much to rush into anything at this point ... even banging.

However, if he's looking for a serious contender, Gayle King from "CBS Mornings" recently threw her hat in the ring, flirtatiously shooting her shot during a recent interview.

Time will tell if Lenny can find the right woman to make him have sex again ... challenge on!

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