Age of Awakening — What you read here can help you to progress on your personal path
What is the Age of Awakening? What you read here can greatly improve your success and happiness. Since you live now. After “The Shift.”
Because something important happened on 12/21/12. But what?
Gaining clarity can help you to adapt well. Rather than getting sidetracked. Or confused.
First, What Happened with the Shift on 12/21/12?
A Psychic Barrier — or veil — used to circle the earth. This subtle, causational structure didn’t just impact the world globally.
That veil also limited you and me personally. Namely, all humans with normal mental functioning. For thousands of years, that Psychic Barrier had been thinning. Faster and faster.
By the 1980’s was accelerating like wild. Many people — maybe you? We saw the start of a seismic shift in human awareness of energy in ourselves and others.
Prior to that, what people did and said mattered to us more than the energy behind those actions.
Then came 12/21/12. Obviously—despite predictions—the world didn’t end on that date, but there was a huge energetic change.
Before 12/21/12, the “veil” (that made it hard for humans to sense energies) was thinning. On 12/21/12 it disappeared completely. Now, in everyday human interactions, we’re able to effortlessly shift awareness to the “vibes” and subconscious motivations of those we interact with. The potential to accelerate spiritual and psychological growth is dazzling.
Welcome to The Age of Awakening.
It’s a new era, with a whole new set of consciousness opportunities that few people understand clearly. Which explains why spending more and more time on “personal-growth” work. Yet finding overwhelm and, sometimes, even Spiritual Addiction.
Unless you gain a clear understanding about how to live now? Sad-but-true: You’ll be at a disadvantage.
Yet It’s Surprisingly Easy, Learning How Live Productively Now
One resource is my Program for Easy Vibrational Balance. And one resource to help you start that program and succeed at it?
Consider reading the how-to book “The New Strong.” Because you’ll gain:
- A practical understanding of life’s three different vibrational frequencies
- How to have energy awareness enhance your life, not take over your life
- Targeted strategies for keeping your personal energies strong
Your investment? Far less time than you’re spending now on self-improvement.
What Do You Have to Gain?
By learning how to live well in in this new era, my readers and students report: So many results, and such personal ones.
Here are some of the most common:
A More Powerful Sense of Self
Come to understand yourself better than ever. (And you may be pleasantly surprised to discover how much you like what you find.)
Greater Productivity
Develop more confidence for solving problems your way, versus waiting ‘till “things feel right” or “spirit guides show the way.”
Better Relationships
A new psychological stability can help you enjoy relationships more. And without having to work on your issues — or the other person’s…
Want to feel more alive and connected, humanly? Ready to stop working so hard to “fix yourself,” energetically?
Let this groundbreaking book help you use a clearer “energy awareness” to enhance your life—not become your life!
Maybe You’re Wondering, What Are We to Call this New Era?
When I published “The New Strong,” I couldn’t find a good name for this new time. Old names were in use. But they seemed awkward, not doing justice to that big change.
Many names include a great deal of fuss. Some even involve weird far-out teachings.
For that reason, I introduced a new term for this new era the Age of Awakening. Not:
- The Age of Aquarius? So hippy-dippy.
- The Aquarian Age? More sophisticated, but is this different era really to be primarily for astrology buffs?
- The New Age? Despite the enormous financial success of the New Age movement, those teachings and preachings may not be terribly well adapted to now. Specifically, they may not work so well for successful living in this new-new age.
- The New Age of Aquarius? Putting together two outdated names — maybe not so helpful
On the date I’m revising this article, July 30, 2021, golly! Check out how many hits are showing up on Google for “The Age of Awakening.”
You’ll find the answer in a COMMENT below. Already we’ve got a triumph in the making. Maybe not 40 million hits. Yet.
But a whole lot more than previously. Since, when I published “The New Strong” in 2016, hello!
Back in the day, I don’t think Google gave any hits at all to “The Age of Awakening.”
In Conclusion
I’m calling this the “Age of Awakening” because of… all the spiritual awakening. Celebrating the luscious and lavish potential for personal growth!
Blog-Buddies, how do you like living in a new age that is NOT about Romance of the Astral! Or spiritual addiction! Or trying to make money in ways that don’t much work… Except for influencing folks to live in a dream world.
What are your dreams for this Age of Awakening?
- Social dreams.
- Relationship dreams.
- Sexual dreams.
- Knowledge dreams.
Will you awaken all the way into Enlightenment? That is the beauty of this age. For the first time on earth, now is a time when millions of people can move into Enlightenment.
And I’m writing this as an Enlightenment teacher who has helped many students do exactly that.
Of course, living at this historic era on earth, you may discover more dreams than you can even name right now. May you find effective ways to help feasible dreams come true.
Just wanna say that I like this post. :)
KIRA, I like that like.
My dream – that the Age of Awakening be like the New Age – a transitional phase into an Age of Enlightenment.
Awakening is a huge step up. But living a clean embodied awakening as Enlightenment, Big improvement.
Then the Age of Oneness? Or will we have an Age of Lila, a divine flowering first? Or just call it the Golden Age. ;-)
DAVID, to me, this Age of Awakening is The Age of Enlightenment.
I just co-created that name because it goes down easier for people, may of whom have come to loathe the term “Enlightenment.”
Look at what Rick Archer does at his batgap website, for instance. Or a certain Davidya, referring to people becoming awake.
I think we’re doing the same preaching to the choir (of which both of us are members). Glad you made this point in your last comment.
I love the moniker “Age of Awakening”. It is so right.
What is very sad is that there are good people stuck in the hell of “Romance of the Astral” and they cannot understand why everything in their lives are so bad when they are and have been so darn “spiritual”. Many I know who are in what you call “spiritual addiction” are suffering needlessly because they have not been exposed to or else they cannot accept that what they are doing won’t work.
This may seem like a strange comment but I am wondering if there could be a softer and gentler name given to the concept of spiritual addiction. So much of people’s identity can be wrapped up in what these people are doing. They think they are serving God and being sporitual. I have found it difficult to convince these folks otherwise. They are on a Hamster wheel to nowhere and I see so much despair.
I recently had to walk away from a friend in spiritual addiction who is reading energy all day and “helping” everyone in her path with her off balance “spiritual” observations.
Maybe a positive term for what is advisable. In this Age of Awakening, it is important to practice spiritual moderation or spiritual/human life balance.
Years before I read about spiritual addiction, I was helping a friend who I would now say wS in extreme spiritual addiction. He was a follower of guru who died in the fifties and the same spiritual practiced this guru trained westerners in to raise theor energy is what the followers of this guru still practice today with disastrous results.
In vain, I tried to convince my friend that if his guru were still alive, he would be training his disciples very differently because it no longer requires the level of effort that it used to to reach higher states due to the changes in the influx of spiritual energy on planet earth.
AN AVID READER,thank you for this thoughtful series of comments.
Speak to your friends as best you can. Even better, invite them to have a session of Energy Spirituality Energy HEALING with an Energy Spirituality expert.That way, you are not jeopardizing the friendship, doing the equivalent of an intervention. When few people even know what an “alcoholic” is. ;-)
;-) Yes, Rose, I think it’s a great name and have mentioned this elsewhere here.
I was just riffing on your dream comment. Doing the big picture. We shouldn’t underestimate what this means.
But sometimes, people don’t realize what kind of shadow they’re in until the lights come on.
The term “Spiritual Addiction” is really, really valuable in a professional setting.
Avid Reader, there is a positive term in Energy Spirituality. Human-Based Spirituality.
Hi Isabella,
I realize how fitting the term “spiritual addiction” is. Using spirituality or anything as an escape is a process addiction.
I am simply sharing my experience of how the term spiritual addiction did not jive with several people I know who would more than likely fit into that catagory. Not sure if the term human based spirituality would work for them either as they view spirtualirlty type stuff as the highest possible thing.
As Rose mentioned, it is not always easy to point out to an “alcoholic” that they are one when they do not see themselves as such.
Linda Stone wrote a wonderful guest post about how the term spiritual addiction didn’t work for her in her first session with Rose. Fortunately for her, she was guided to do three sessions even though she wanted to quit (if I recall correctly) after the first session. (Linda, please feel free to correct me if I misrepresented what you wrote).
I’ve felt very similar to what you describe, avid reader, when talking with some of my more astrally-oriented friends.
What I realized, however, is how icky-yucky-awful I felt when I thought about those friends trying extra hard for ME to see my “problem.” That is, living in human-based spirituality, which is actually no problem at all. But what if they saw it that way, and tried to “fix” or convert me?
I was/am looking for more inclusive language to describe what Rose does. The terms spiritual addiction and human based spirituality both work for me because I understand what they mean and neither term threatens my identity as a spiritual and human being on planet earth.
As a friend and not their practitioner of any kind, I don’t feel right offering “diagnoses” of any sort. But I DO care about my friends, and many of them simply don’t know any different.
So I started doing something similar to what Rose suggested above. I will recommend her books, website, sessions as appropriate, and to the extent that they are interested, I will share my experiences as her client and student.
I’m a big fan of “show’em what they’re missing” rather than “try to convince them they’re in the wrong.” Not that you would do that, either, I’m sure. :) But this has been a helpful reminder for myself, since I really DO struggle not to “fix” the people I care about… which is REALLY not appropriate.
Or especially helpful, in the long run, since it isn’t supporting their free will and self-authority.
Wise approach, Sarah. Some will “get it”, some not. But all you can do is point. ;-)
I would like to add to this thread. I can relate to the frustration of an avid reader. Several of my friends were told by an Energy Spirituality practitioner that they were dealing with spiritual addiction. Not that I have tried to convert anyone (psychic coercion). I have simply shared my experiences to the best of my ability.
If no interest is shown, I do not bring it up again.
But there haven’t been results, far as I could tell. I am having to distance myself from these friends and am still feeling sad about the loss.
I was actually wondering where to bring this up, and then I read the series of comments here.
I have been meeting a lot of people lately, and I have had several tell me some variation on “You have such great energy!” Well, I’m glad that people like my energy, but slightly concerned that they’re noticing it so vividly. I’m really not sure what to say to someone who is practically a stranger that might be helpfully educational.
So far, I’ve opted for just thanking them for the compliment. I just don’t know if I’m missing opportunities to teach.
I was like this for a while, everything had to be about energy and the astral.
I purchased a few books on psychic development and learnt them remarkably quickly.
After that, everything was about how I felt, how best I could ascend, and how to ignore everything that is NOT in the astral.
I think I stopped doing that quite so much when I moved out of a bad time in life and realized that there are things that are fun in the world.
At times I still show signs of spiritual addiction, I recently find that the exercises in become the most important person in the room helps with that a lot.
KIRA, might I recommend this? If someone comments on your great energy, refer them to this blog.
If you have had some sessions with me, say they have helped.
Just one time. It’s tasteful. Could be helpful.
Thanks to all of you who have been contributing to this thread.
An avid reader, I’m not done yet, exploring ways to help people understand this problem and what to do about it.
This article in particular might be helpful for some of you Blog-Buddies who are struggling with how to help friends: What is Spiritual Addiction? How to help your friends.
Hi Sarah,
Thank you for your comments. I actually agree with and espouse your point of view more so than the vague terms I used in my comments suggest. I do not get involved in diagnosis, judging, assessing my friends’ spiritual practices or beliefs. I have chosen “walking away” over fixing something or offering unsolicited advice about things that are not mine to fix.
Just to clarify—in the case of my friend who studied with a guru years ago, my assistance was requested. At the time, I was working as an alternative practitioner in a field in which I had extensive training and supervision.
Since I am now working in a different field with a lot of demands on my time and energy, I would chose to make a referral. :)
Kira–I’ve gotten that kind of comment from people, too, and it can be a bit weird!
Although I have to admit: even long before I learned about “energy” anything, that kind of language was just standard vernacular among my peers. I remember one compliment like that from one of my normal, everyday, sciencey-type classmates in college, not remotely spiritually addicted (more likely in shutdown, if anything).
It was just his way of saying, “I like being around you and I can’t explain why in any normal language.” He even used the word “aura,” as in, “You have a nice aura about you!”
But I’m sure if I had pressed, he didn’t “believe” in auras in the technical sense. It was just part of the language my generation was/is using.
Back then, I didn’t think twice about it. But these days, especially if I suspect addiction, I definitely do what Rose says in comment #24. I can give credit to what has helped me, and in the process turn people on to a system and body of knowledge which is very safe and informative.
Hi Kira
This is actually something to get used to. As presence gets stronger, more will notice it.
Occasionally, you’ll have people triggered by it or who start purifying. And some will have weird or wonderful experiences around you.
Just remember, it’s not personal. And it’s not about you but not everyone will understand the distinction between the person and the presence.
But you’ll also notice that hanging with others awake will make it stronger for both of you.
Hey Kira, I think I’ve noticed something similar last year. Someone who just declared that they (platonically) loved me and loved my “energy and approach to life” after knowing this person a week!
It was really nice because they are nice and pretty awesome themselves.
However I have also noticing the opposite as David has pointed out, people who don’t even like to be in the same room as me so much!
Hi Rose,
I am happy to hear you are not done exploring ways to communicate about spiritual addiction and what to do about it.
Due to the fact you are a pioneer on the cutting edge of defining and finding effective healing solutions, you are tasked with communicating about things people have never heard of.
This can make people uneasy to say the least. It can take a while for new ideas to saturate the mass consciousness even in the filed of healing and spirituality.
New ideas can often be dismissed so much more easily than those that are widely accepted.
It is not surprising that the people who comment on your blog tend to be open minded, perceptive and critical thinkers as well as a joy to read.
Which is one of the many reasons I am such an avid reader of this blog. :)
Wow, thats a different chain of comments than I was expecting.
Its so sad that spiritual addiction is costing friendships. :-(
I guess the whole thing of judging the tree by its fruit is a good one.
People will get fed up with spiritual addiction eventually and want to try something more effective.
The comments that came to my mind on reading the article were full of my usual 1000 miles an hour enthusiasm. I may as well share, to see if anyone can relate
1 I feel like a lot of now is about the future.
Ive noticed that there are a few blog buddies are interesting in helping young people and children, and healing itself is about taking care of the future.
2 How we reach enlightenment is changing lots of comments about this.
I kind of miss my simple meditation routine, but its not safe for the time being.
But this is also cool. It seems to me that were having to be a bit more focused and aware about how exactly we want to spiritually develop.
3 Are human level abilities (learnin..) going to be easier to gain? Like piano, programming, learning languages. Are our abilities to learn and adapt becoming more fluid?
4 For me in this lifetime, there has been an overriding feeling of something being near completion.
Its these internal signs and experiences that I pay the most attention to. Can others relate?
One bum note that I get about the future is the environment
I feel humans are being a bit silly right now about it and hopefully we have enough time to keep living on earth sustainable.
Though most of that doesnt belong on this blog. But if there are any environmental or animal empaths that have some insight on this, that would be interesting
Thanks, Rose, for Comment 24–don’t know why I didn’t think of that myself! :$
(Okay, my research on blushing emoticons seems to have been incomplete. Just pretend that there’s a blushing emoticon at the end of that comment.)
Sarah and Emily, glad I’m not the only one! My recent experience has mostly been with hospital workers; I really can’t tell if it’s just language or they are actually looking at my energy. But then, I’m willing to bet that I’m more upbeat and positive than most hospital patients, so it could very well be just descriptive language.
David, that’s good information to know. Thanks!
Lillian, your point 4 is the one I most relate to. I haven’t had that feeling of something being near completion, but I have had overriding feelings of being in the right place at the right time. Or of events in my life happening at the right time.
It’s sort of like noticing that things seem to be happening according to a well-executed plan (as if I were a made-up character instead of a real person whom random things happen to).
Most of the time, I don’t think about it very much, I just live my life. But there have been such weird synchronicities in my life, and instances of my gaining exactly the right skills just in time to deal with something I never would have thought I could deal with.
In high school, I started a running joke with my friends that I was a figment of the collective imagination. Later on, I decided that I lead a charmed life. I’ve since amended it, at least to myself, to leading a blessed life, but “charmed life” generally goes over better with most people, especially if they remember a certain old Prudential commercial.
Anyway, Lillian, I wonder if your sense of something being near completion and my sense of things going according to plan are related.
Thanks for your perspective Kira. :-) It gave me something to think about.
I feel the voice of Rose telling us that noticing synchronicities is part of the age of awareness/energy So I thought to write that here.
Spending all our time looking for these things is a waste of our time, of course.
I wouldnt say my life was charmed, but I relate to a certain extent.
It seems that certain things are meant to be difficult and will never be solved, and others seem to progress quite quickly.
For example, Ive learnt my lessons about putting myself into situation where Im not appreciated, and then I got contacted for a job with a bunch of nice people.
I now know I can count on a bit of help.
But maybe everyone gets some help if theyre in the right state (of mind/aura) to receive it.
The feeling of nearing completion was something I got a lot in my teen years.
Even though things were difficult, it felt like if I could power through a few more spin cycles of difficult things with my will power, and then that would be done with.
Its was a gut feeling and I kind of feel its done with now.
Maybe its just optimism and determination .
Anyway, age of awakening, sounds good if we can avoid the spiritual addiction.
It might be a bit like when people were prescribed opiates for minor health ailments in the 19th century, before society realised how addictive they were.
People didnt know any better, and there was a lot of suffering and tragedy thousands got addicted.
Avoidable, but still painful.
Now we know better, and addiction to opiates is more likely to be a choice someone makes than an accident.
Lilian, your last two comments (#55 and #56): yes! I have been thinking the same thing about drugs and spiritual addiction.
Or how about the way everyone and their mom used to smoke cigarettes, and now we collectively “know better” though plenty still do.
It does strike me that we are in a sort of in-between time where everyone is discovering and “using” energy awareness, and it feels completely harmless to the average person because it’s still unclear to them what it even is. (When half the population denies the existence of something, it can’t be addictive, right??)
And eventually we will “know better” about this on a collective level as well. I like to think that Rose and Energy Spirituality are really helping with that.
Lilian, your last two comments (#55 and #56): yes! I have been thinking the same thing about drugs and spiritual addiction.
Or how about the way everyone and their mom used to smoke cigarettes, and now we collectively know better though plenty still do.
It does strike me that we are in a sort of in-between time where everyone is discovering and using energy awareness, and it feels completely harmless to the average person because its still unclear to them what it even is.
(When half the population denies the existence of something, it cant be addictive, right??)
And eventually we will “know better” about this on a collective level as well.
I like to think that Rose and Energy Spirituality are really helping with that.
Reading this topic I felt anger. A review of what I’ve done to the lives of my wife and children and me.
I consider it pure Grace that I found help. It is exciting! It is a little scary.
It is like a Joni Mitchell song, “you can’t return you can only look behind from where you’ve been..” I go to work and home now with so much more time for real life on the ground. And it’s going to take some time to fix this mess.
So, how many results today on Google for “The Age of Awakening”?
657,000 hits
I’m pretty sure, when I published “The New Strong” five years ago, there were ZERO.
I saw your comment listed for this article. Just for fun I clicked and found this article.
Very interesting. I’m glad that I’ve read The New Strong. Probably I’m due to read it again and get more.
I’ve just finished a lesson in the New Strong 103 workshop where you discuss how you decided on the name “the Age of Awakening”.
How fun that you also updated it this weekend!
I searched for it today and your website came up on the first page of results. (And this was in “private” mode, so not based on my previous search history).
Thanks for both comments, EMILY TURNER.
For sure, when I first published “The New Strong,” it was such a powerful experience, bringing those new concepts into the world.
I had no idea that later I’d publish the New Strong Collection of Online Workshops, including the revolutionary new technique for “Lived Experience.” That’s a specialty of The New Strong 103.
In case any of you Blog-Buddies are wondering, no experience with energetic literacy (aura reading or Skilled Empath Merge) is needed in order to have a blast with “Lived Experience.”