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Authentic Awakening: What Actually Happens

The journey of Awakening is a simple but radical Inquiry into the self-imposed illusion that creates the individual suffering that results from the experience of separateness. The experience of separateness results from the believing ourselves to be something other than what we actually are. This illusion can be dispelled by realizing the impermanence and illusory nature of the self. When this realization is profound, we are freed to live a life to its fullest as the Radiant Boundless Awareness that is our true nature.

The Discovery of Presence There are moments in most all of our lives when, quite unexpectedly and out of nowhere, some unknown force of Stillness abruptly interrupts the time and space of our normal stream of conscious experience, dropping us into a profound moment of Quietness; revealing a Silent sense of wonder and awe at the sheer beauty of existence Itself. It is as if some magical Presence from another realm has reached through a tear in the fabric of our personal reality, creating a portal of access through which to caress us and make Itself known. There is an ensuing shift in perception; an amplification of feeling; a kind of clarity of Seeing. It is as though, before this moment, existence was lacking some essential substance that had now been restored; that pervades and completes it; making it Whole in its simple Being; more Real, Alive, and Bright....... everything glowing in a Silent Radiance of felt Presence. Illuminated in a Bright Simplicity of Ordinariness. With this discovery, the journey only begins.