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5 Darshan Secrets for the Age of Awakening

5 Darshan Secrets for the Age of Awakening. These can bring spiritual seekers like you some much needed discernment.

And I do mean YOU!

First of All, This Article Is Part 2 in a 2-Part Series

What is Darshan? Basically, Darshan is a significant spiritual blessing that one can receive from another human being.

Initially, in Part 1, we considered what Darshan meant back during the Age of Faith.

In general, the ideal included a kind of contagious holiness: Like the idea that spiritual purity was transmitted by a holy person. Or object. Particularly, in the East, Darshan happened when you were in the presence of a saint. Namely, somebody in Spiritual Enlightenment.

However, Darshan can mean something very different today. Now that we’re all living in the Age of Awakening. (Definitely, all of us have been doing that. Know it or not, like it or not. Living in this Age of Awakening ever since the Shift on 12/21/12.)

As a matter of fact, you can find that Part 1 Darshan article here. Might I suggest? Take a few minutes to read it before continuing to read this Part 2.

Second, for this Article Part 2, How to Define Darshan NOW?

In this Age of Awakening, we can receive Darshan. Primarily we receive it from:

  1. A person living in Spiritual Enlightenment.
  2. When we have direct contact with that individual — that is, in energetic real time. Such as being in the same room. Alternatively, we might be talking via phone, Skype, Zoom, etc.

Already You May Have Just Learned a Couple of Secrets about Darshan

And these aren’t even the main 5 Secrets in this article. Which you’re even less likely to know… so far.

Yet those previous Points #1 and #2 make sense, don’t they? Protecting yourself from wasting time with superstitions. (Like some discussed in our Part 1 article.)

As always, Blog-Buddies, you’re warmly invited to COMMENT below.

For example, some of you may be wondering? Given how Darshan works now, in the Age of Awakening… Could that mean that you don’t really receive Darshan from having 50 photos of the Guru all over your home?

Well, COMMENT away, and share your thoughts about any of this. Or COMMENT to ask your questions, and I’ll answer. Where’s the fun of knowing an Enlightenment Teacher if you can’t ask questions? And receive answers!

Beyond that, this article will share 5 Darshan Secrets. Currently, these ideas are not widely known. Nonetheless, they’re like other Aha!s I’ve cocreated, as the founder of Energy Spirituality™ . Easy as tucking into some cherry pie a la mode, on a sweet August afternoon.

Why keep today’s knowledge of Darshan unshared? Since every one of these 5 secrets can help you to progress along your path. Whether you define that personal path as spiritual awakening, gaining Enlightenment, personal development, self-actualization, or any other worthy ideal.

Incidentally, in case you’re wondering: What’s my standing to write this article?

5 Darshan Secrets

#1. No Guesswork Needed. (Nor Superstition, Either)

Who has “It”?

Essentially that’s the kind of guesswork I’m talking about, regarding our first Darshan Secret.

You see, Blog-Buddies, back in the day, how could you tell who was in Enlightenment? Or who was a “Saint”?

Unless you have a pretty clear idea about who’s Darshan-worthy, how can you get yourself some?

Back in the Age of Faith, people assumed. They guessed. Best they could do.

But now? Living in the Age of Awakeing, how can you tell today?

By all means, COMMENT below and share your thoughts about that. Should be interesting!

During the Age of Faith…

Plenty of People NOT in Enlightenment Have Been Considered “Saints”

One reason I love Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”? All his stories about this. Chapter after chapter, in his gentle way, Paramahansa Yogananda exposed astral specialists — like “The Perfume Saint.” Nowhere close to Spiritual Enlightenment.

Rather, these “saints” had mastered one astral trick or another. Enough to convince many a desperate spiritual seeker that this person was “holy.”

In my upcoming book you’ll learn (among other things) quite a lot of discernment about this sort of thing:. Helping spiritual seekers to avoid barking up wrong trees, as it were.

Come to think of it, all this is… Tantamount to today’s confusions over being an empath. So many empaths today are studying with “empath experts” who aren’t themselves empaths in the first place!

Fact is, if anything, compared to the Age of Faith… Probably more people not in Enlightenment are claiming to be “There.” So discernment matters immensely, seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.

Might you like an idea for COMMENTING on this aspect of our post? You might ask me to recount my “experience at the fabric store.” Definitely a related Teaching Tale.

Enter Today’s Aura Reading. Including Chakra Databanks

Energetic literacy allows us to learn what is going on in anybody’s aura. And yes, you could gain that skill. It’s not much more difficult than learning word literacy. Just takes a while.

Clairvoyance, I hasten to add, is NOT required. Not if you’re aiming to gain Stage 3 Energetic Literacy.

For instance, here are five very specific reasons why you CAN learn to research people’s auras.

Imagine how useful! Already, you have word literacy. As a result, you don’t have to guess at street names. Instead you can learn those street names from street signs!

Slightly more sophisticated, but not that much:

  1. Learn good skills of aura reading.
  2. Then practice at discerning Consciousness Lifestyles.
  3. At will, you can research who is — or isn’t — in Spiritual Enlightenment.
  4. For a shortcut, absolutely: Nominate spiritual teachers who impress you; and receive the free research at our Spiritual Enlightenment List.

In view of how many people how wasted how much time, money, hope, etc. on questionable spiritual experts?

Seems to me, we’re exceedingly fortunate to live now, in the Age of Awakening. Gaining the first three skills I just listed? This can help you stop wasting time on questionable sources of “Darshan.”

5 Darshan Secrets.

#2. Your Storehouse of Impressions

Whenever you have been in the presence of somebody in Spiritual Enlightenment, guess what? You remember that. Deep down.

Exactly how deep… deep down?

All the way down to the deepest down within a human life experience. In fact, there’s a traditional name for that deepest down: The Chitta.

Definitely known for the past 10,000 years or so, and also known by this Enlightenment Teacher today!

Your Chitta, or Storehouse of Impressions, contains precise and detailed memories of everything that has ever happened to you:

  • What you saw. Even what you saw with peripheral vision.
  • What you heard. Including whatever you overheard.
  • How you reacted inwardly.

By now, are you getting the idea? The idea of the immense scope of information in your own Storehouse of Impressions?

Today’s new technologies, in the Age of Awakening, can help to validate all this. COMMENT below and ask, if you’d like to understand more.

Your Storehouse of Impressions Lasts Forever

Wow, even longer than that drunk tweet or sexting that got onto the internet!

Joke. Neither you and I have ever done such a thing, right?

But if we had, it would last forever in that Storehouse of Impressions.  Within you.

Yes, your Storehouse of Impressions exists:

  • Throughout this lifetime. (Including whatever gets added to it. Which is A LOT. Every day!)
  • After this lifetime, when you’re living in a light body. Living in that heaven. (Including whatever gets added to that Chitta. Which is A LOT. Every “moment” of the eternity that you’re living in!)
  • Each of your subsequent incarnations, wherever you’re born and live and die. (Always, you guessed it! Adding to your Storehouse of Impressions.)

And What’s the Connection with Darshan?

Every encounter you’ve ever had with the form of spiritual greatness called “Enlightenment”? Exactly that is stored, in minute detail.

Specifically true, these moments of real-deal Darshan are yours. Gently coaching you, subconsciously. Preparing you to understand the nature of Spiritual Enlightenment.

5 Darshan Secrets.

#3. New Discovery: Your Storehouse of Energetic Holograms

In addition to your Chitta, you’ve got an equivalent version. Only for this lifetime. And somewhat easier to access.

Not only have I named this…. as one’s Storehouse of Energetic Holograms. Beyond that, I research it for my Energy Spirituality™ clients. (Myself included.)

Any Darshan you’ve experienced in this incarnation? All copied there.

Not only in your Storehouse of Impressions but also in your Storehouse of Energetic Holograms.

Curious about that?

Maybe you’ll book a session with me, learning more about times you have been with somebody in Enlightenment. Present in energetic real time. In particular, one-on-one conversations are easy to research.

Incidentally, at this time, all Energy Spirituality Experts happen to live in Enlightenment. Consider this a Darshan bonus for having a personal session with any one of us.

5 Darshan Secrets

#4. Enlightenment Eye Flash

Definitely a Darshan secret here! After all, what happens if you google Enlightenment Eye Flash?

At this writing, 4 hits. But isn’t that often the case with leading-edge ideas from Energy Spirituality™? You’ll find them here, at this website and blog. Not necessarily elsewhere, not yet.

Coincidentally? Not. Does any other website currently teach the system of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses®?

Unfortunately, not having  developed good skills for energetic literacy, hello! Other spiritual teachers and personal growth experts… Sigh! Suffice it to say, they miss a whole lot.

In the Context of Darshan, What is Enlightenment Eye Flash?

Simply put, a person subconsciously registers Darshan. Briefly. And, did you consciously just register the word subconsciously? Important!

When encountering a person in Enlightenment, a stranger like Gladys briefly lights up. Like having the eyes within her eyes wake up, shine up. Only happens for a second or two.

Technically, the person in Enlightenment who witnesses Enlightenment Eye Flash is consciously seeing what? Beyond a brief eye flash, Gladys has just received some Darshan. 

Perhaps the most interesting way to learn more about this is to open up the following articles about Enlightenment Validation. Once there, search on Enlightenment Eye Flash. Both in the main blogpost and in the comments:

Of course, you’re also welcome to COMMENT below and ask your questions about Enlightenment Eye Flash.

5 Darshan Secrets

#5. Darshan Is a Matter of Degree, a Continuum

Most important for us to consider, now that we’re living in the Age of Awakening?

One could consider Darshan to be a matter of degree. Because:

  1. Each aura tells a story.
  2. Moreover, each of us subconsciously registers that story through auric modeling.
  3. After we learn good skills of energetic literacy, we can consciously research anybody’s chakra databanks. Including folks we know only from a photo or screenshot from Zoom, etc.
  4. Due to living in the Age of Awakening, millions of people are likely quite close to Spiritual Enlightenment. Although not yet living with that consciousness lifestyle.
  5. Altogether different from the Age of Faith, when almost nobody lived in Enlightenment. Or was even remotely close to Enlightenment.

Seems to me, there’s now a Continuum of Darshan.

Who’s in this Continuum of Darshan?

Quite likely, you! At least, if you’re a regular reader of this Energy Spirituality™ Blog.

Since spiritually powerful auric modeling is available from this range of people. Those living in:

  1. Traditional Enlightenment
  2. Age of Awakening Enlightenment
  3. The New Strong
  4. Human-Based Spirituality — and doing well, in terms of spiritual evolution. (Sadly, some with this consciousness lifestyle can be pretty stuck. For now.)

Inspiring, yes?

Be sure to ask any questions you have about this brand new concept. On the day of publishing this blogpost, yes! I plan to add Continuum of Darshan to my list of innovations from Energy Spirituality.

Together, let’s watch recognition grow over the years. Maybe give this particular new concept 5 years, before others write about it online? No gambling, please. Otherwise, I do invite you to guess how long that will take.

In Conclusion

Exciting or what? Blog-Buddies, today you’ve been reading leading-edge knowledge about Darshan. Aiming to bring this beautiful, age-old ideal into the Age of Awakening.

As always, Blog-Buddies, your COMMENTS will make all this knowledge come alive.

In order to get you started with new ideas for sharing your thoughts, please share your reaction to these ideas:

  1. Whatever your religious background, there has probably been the equivalent of Darshan: A holy person, wholly authorized, to be YOUR authority about God. Offering you The Teaching. (And how has that worked for you?)
  2. Living now, we’re free to move on from Traditional Guru Snobbery about Darshan. (Such as, only those authorized by the Church or the Guru have the right to teach you anything of spiritual importance.)
  3. With the clarity that comes naturally when living in the Age of Awakening, let’s talk superstition. Unintentionally, folks who believe in the Age of Faith version of Darshan can mix in plenty old-fashioned superstition. (Examples, please.)

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    Janice Hooper says:

    What do you think about this? Does it have anything to do with the Age of Faith version of Darshan?

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    First of all, JANICE HOOPER, you have my condolences — you and everyone else reading this who grew up with superstitions and illusions about evil waiting to hurt you, evil that could just “get into your home” and have it’s way with you, etc.

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    Second, does this fearful superstition have anything to do with the Age of Faith version of Darshan? Not really.

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    Since with Darshan an Eastern lover of God, like Sam, would CHOOSE to bring magical pictures of the guru into his home.

    While a Western lover of God, like Gladys would CHOOSE to place magical Bible quote embroideries in all the rooms of her home. (Except, perhaps, the dirty bathroom… if her home had indoor plumbing.)

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    By contrast, what’s not about darshan at all? (Regarding this sad situation in which you grew up, JANICE HOOPER.)

    Being actively pursued by a very potent, scheming force for evil, a Devil, a Satan.

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    That’s a very Age of Faith problem, one that persists to this day.

    As for people today who are off the deep end with their religious fanaticism, Americans who are no longer capable of understanding our bedrock principle of separation of church and state, people who are light years away from realizing they live in the Age of Awakening…

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    Horrifying fanaticism, from religious fanatics like Bonnie Wallace in this article, threatens many of America’s public libraries.

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    Finally, on a far brighter note, thank you as always for your latest batch of comments, JANICE.

    Especially, today, thank you for helping us to reach 106,900 comments. Within a week we’re likely to cross a new milestone with our number of comment conversations here at the Energy Spirituality™ blog.

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    Jasmine says:

    Regarding Comment #84, I didn’t know (until just now) that one of your goals for this blog was helping people put their own subtle truth into words.

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    Jasmine says:

    I love that!!!

    Now I am really motivated to comment. :)

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    Yes, JASMINE. Here’s to bringing more truth into Earth.

    And by that, I guess I’ve always meant, since there are many degrees of truth… Here’s to bringing more High Truth Value-type truth into Earth.

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    Janice H. says:

    Thanks, Rose.

    Thankfully in my childhood there was just intermittent fanaticism! Still pretty confusing, though, if I’m honest.

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    Janice H. says:

    Calling a spade a spade is really helpful.

    I just thought of some other religious incidents from my childhood, labeled them fanaticism, and got some great relief. Definitely much Higher Truth Value.

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    INTERMITTENT fanatacism is even harder to identify than regular fantaticism.

    Good for you, JANICE H., for doing that truthy-type labeling.

  15. 215
    Oscar Manuel says:

    Hi Rose and blog-buddies! Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

    The weather is lovely where I am today, after lots of bad weather, so I am having an especially happy day off.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    I *had* a question about Darshan, but I think your response, Rose, to Janice’s question about supposedly evil objects answered my question as well.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    I was going to ask about… it’s kind of embarassing… but I was going to ask about blankies and lovies.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    I guess these don’t have anything to do with darshan. Even though they can really seem like wonderful objects with special properties. :)

    Thank you for blogging.

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    Indeed, OSCAR MANUEL, Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

    Naming a day after Native Americans doesn’t really make reparations for the shameful history of how these people have been treated… to this day… but it sure beats calling today “Columbus Day.” IMO.

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    I’m glad you asked about “blankies and lovies.” Is there anybody reading these words who DIDN’T used to depend upon a beloved shirt, a rag that smelled like Mommy, a beloved if bedraggled stuffed animal, or a useful thumb?

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    Adjusting to a human lifetime is hard, especially when we feel homesick for where we were before starting this lifetime, aka Homesick for Heaven. (As described in today’s blogpost.)

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    Darshan objects CAN be mostly comfort objects. Or a believer in Old-Fashioned Darshan can find beautiful reasons, layered beliefs and sweet yearnings, memories of religious rituals, so much more added onto an object.

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    Likewise a beloved darshan object — such as the photo of a guru or saint — can become layered with astral-level Thought Forms. Subconsciously Positive Thought Forms can enhance the “priceless” value of the darshan object.

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    Better to learn to do Thought Form Healings, and otherwise make use of Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING, than continue to drag around the equivalent of a blankie or a pacifier.

    Especially now that all of us are living in the Age of Awakening, when Darshan works differently. (Like so many other things.)

  25. 225
    Oscar Manuel says:

    I also want to share a Darshan a-ha that I had recently.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    I was thinking many things I’ve learned at the blog, one of them being this recent comment about one of the purposes of the blog:

    “You’ve reminded me how one of my goals for this Energy Spirituality™ Blog is to help people to put their own subtle truth into words.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    “Deeper Perception BECOMES Practical, in part, when we can use Human-Type Language — with a High Truth Value — to describe our spiritual experience. And, in so doing, make it more real to ourselves.”

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    And I realized, with the way Darshan works now, it’s so much more important that we are able to communicate. To speak and to write.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    In other words, Age of Faith gurus could sit and give Darshan.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    For instance, back in the Age of Faith, I visited one Hindu guru when she toured through my town.

    She didn’t speak to me, she just nodded at me. And I suppose there was supposed to be Darshan that helped me with Spiritual Awakening. That was the idea.

  31. 231
    Oscar Manuel says:

    But since that doesn’t really work… Definitely not in the Age of Awakening….

    People who want to be Spiritual Leaders need to be able to communicate.

  32. 232
    Oscar Manuel says:

    Hope that makes sense. What do you think, Rose?

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    Really thought-provoking Aha! here, OSCAR MANUEL.

    First of all, in the Age of Faith it was fine — just fine — to have a clergy member who never spoke at all. For instance, a Catholic priest officiating a Holy Communion.

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    Or a guru who seldom spoke, and was therefore all the more mysterious, radiating holiness.

    So Age of Faith, this kind of thing.

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    The believer could imagine ANYTHING about the Darshan Bringer. Nothing would contradict this.

    Much as the biggest old-time movie stars said as little as possible, enhancing their glamour. (Wasn’t “I want to be alone” a big part of the Greta Garbo allure?)

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    Second, sacred objects were all the more effective Darshan givers because they didn’t speak.

    Love that baptismal font, encrusted with a ton of Positive Thought Forms. No loudspeaker. (ARIA, no autotune, either, right?)

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    Third, believers in the Age of Faith were likely illiterate.

    As you may know, OSCAR and other Blog-Buddies, widespread literacy only became possible in the last centuries of the Age of Faith.

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    All the easier to bypass the worshipers conscious mind altogether, thanks to illiteracy; making faith and belief more important than ever. Only the special people could read or memorize-and-chant the Scripture!

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    By contrast, OSCAR MANUEL, what do we have in the Age of Awakening? We’ve got:

    * Human individuality, personhood.
    * Minds of our own.

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    * Word literacy is widespread.
    * In our lifetimes, good skills of energetic literacy may also become widespread.

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    Furthermore, living in this Age of Awakening, “ordinary” humans are capable of learning how to cocreate with God. And some spiritual teachers even have learned effective skills that we can teach to folks who wish to learn them.

    Who needs old-fashioned darshan, like “blessings” emanating from a “sacred wall tile,” when we can have all that?

  42. 242
    Penny Chu says:

    Applause to you, Oscar Manuel. Does America really need more holidays that honor white men of European ancestry?

    Down with Christopher Columbus Day. Up with Indigenous Peoples Day!

  43. 243

    Agreed, PENNY CHU. Thanks.

  44. 244
    Oscar Manuel says:

    Hi Rose — as I was reading the comments, another thought occurred to me, a question.

    You mention “worship” several times, like worshipping a painting.

  45. 245
    Oscar Manuel says:

    I understand that worshipping a painting or object is not really worth my time.

    But do you think worshipping actual God is worthwhile in the Age of Awakening?

  46. 246
    Oscar Manuel says:

    What do you think of “worship” overall? Is it necessary, optional, detrimental on one’s path to Spiritual Enlightenment?

    Thank you.

  47. 247

    Such a fascinating series of questions, OSCAR MANUEL!

    Especially fascinating when seen in this light: As I make clear several times in the latest Energy Spirituality book, “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening,” I don’t offer a path. Energy Spirituality can help folks to choose and refine a spiritual or religious path.

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    That said, worship isn’t a universal set of skills, such as how to use a refrigerator. Or how to open a jar.

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    Therefore, what is the best way for me to help any of you in answering the question about the impact of different kinds of worship that might appeal to you?

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    I’d recommend that you’d book a one-on-one session (by phone or Skype audio) for Enlightenment Coaching.

    Bring along one or more examples of different kinds of worship you’ve been doing, especially recently. (Although former kinds of worship could also be worth exploring in an Energy Spirituality session.)

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    Many Energy Spirituality™ skills are available to help you, bringing new clarity to understand the impact of any activity you might do. I’d choose from skills such as:

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    1. Consciousness Positioning Consults®

    To explore what was happening in your chakra databanks, at a time of worship.

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    Incidentally, “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening” can teach you a great deal of new information…

    Concerning what has changed about everyday positioning of consciousness, for you and others, since the start of the Age of Awakening.

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    2. Perhaps we’ll turn up the need for a Healing Centerpiece from Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING.

    Just one example, shortly before moving into Spiritual Enlightenment, two different clients requested sessions where the Healing Centerpiece was for me to facilitate cutting their cord of attachment to God. (For both these clients, this greatly accelerated moving into Enlightenment.)

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    3. In conjunction with other session specialties, I might discuss the mechanics of that form of worship… providing an immediate analysis as a consciousness engineer.

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    Just to show how practical this sort of Enlightenment Coaching session can be, here’s a recent example. My client Gladys is in Age of Awakening Enlightenment. As is common, she’s still sorting out what is true from sweet, worship-ey illusions she’d been taught in the past.

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    During her session, I facilitated Consciousness Positioning Consult, researching a time when Gladys was doing a simple, unflashy breathing technique.

    To Gladys’s conscious mind, this didn’t seem nearly flashy enough. Pretty much akin to a waste of time.

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    Yet what happened when we compared a few pertinent chakra databanks:

    * Before Gladys did that bit of Technique Time
    * And when Gladys was about 5 minutes into Technique Time.

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    Results of that research?

    Pre-Technique Time, Gladys was spontaneously positioning her consciousness at Human Vibrational Frequencies, enjoying her usual strong connection to God as well as humanly using her full potential in life.

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    Whereas when Gladys was 5 minutes into Technique Time?

    Gladys was spontaneously positioning her consciousness at the Divine Vibrational Frequency.

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    Funny thing about positioning consciousness at the Divine Vibrational Frequency. It’s transcendent, not flashy. You know, Buddhists often refer to this experience as “The Void.”

    That’s not exactly my favorite interpretation, although I can see the point.

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    Gladys did well as a result of that session.

    Once we move into Spiritual Enlightenment, both Traditional Enlightenment and Age of Awakening Enlightenment, imo, it’s very important to have a session of Enlightenment Coaching every few months.

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    Granted, traditionally that’s not necessary. Yet, now that humanity is in the early years of the Age of Awakening, this sort of continuing help can make all the difference between remaining in Enlightenment or not.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    Thank you for all your responses, Rose.

    About worship, in and of itself your response clarifies for me what worship is. One does things in order to worship, right? Worship is not just a way of being or an attitude.

  65. 265
    Oscar Manuel says:

    Not that you were suggesting it for me in particular, but, haha,

    I don’t think I would have any incidents about worship to bring to a session. Not really my thing. Maybe I tried it when I was a child but found it very uncomfortable.

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    Interesting points here, OSCAR MANUEL.

    At a time in history, still in the first decade after the Shift, so many people have over-subjective consciousness lifestyles, most commonly Spiritual Addiction and Psychological Overwork.

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    Understandably, for these folks, the lines are blurred between “all important” subjective reality versus what’s supposedly trivial, things that people do and say in objective reality.

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    I agree totally with what you wrote in Comment #364:

    “One does things in order to worship, right? Worship is not just a way of being or an attitude.”

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    But, just for giggles, I’m going to do a little googling about what I do NOT believe to be true about worship:

    “Worship God with your mind”
    How many hits this morning? 84,800,000. Yep, 84 MILLION.

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    Again, I don’t believe the following to be true. In my new book, “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening,” I call this sort of thing mood-making:

    “Worship God with your mind”
    How many hits this morning? 84,800,000. Yep, 84 MILLION.

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    Or how about this mood-making version, or over-subjective, version of worship:

    “Worship God with your body”
    How many hits this morning? 135,000,000 Yep, 135 MILLION.

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    This marriage vow can be found in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, from 1552.

    Look, sex is good. Marriage is good. (At least, both of these can be good.)
    But maybe, back in the 16th century, most people were still so spiritually unevolved as to believe the highest connection to God could come through exciting sensations in their animal bodies, plus maybe a bit of love.

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    Yet I tend to agree with you about worship, OSCAR MANUEL.

    For example, sex is sex. Worship is worship, and it involves doing something other than “what comes naturally” to a human animal.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    Thank you also for your response in Comments #233-241.

    In Comment #234 you say, “Or a guru who seldom spoke, and was therefore all the more mysterious, radiating holiness.”

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    I was just thinking about this type of mysteriousness this morning and laughing to myself.

    It quite convenient, isn’t it, to just be able to talk about the great mystery of It and That and Whatever It Is.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    It’s one thing to be humble, and acknowledge unfolding Truth and personal growth.

    And that as a human being, you don’t know everything.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    In this case, you might actually have a chance of being helpful to another person, in your willingness to seek or create new human knowledge that might help them.

    Honest, human humility opens the door to ingenuity.

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    It’s another thing entirely, choosing to use the convenient and glamorous “It’s a mystery” device.

    This pretty much precludes your even trying to learn something new. This also precludes giving your student or follower anything that might be the least bit helpful for their human life.

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    Agreed, OSCAR. Your Comments #277-279 are, by my standard, golden.

    Sure, the Age of Faith adulation of officially holy spiritual leaders — for instance, circa 1552 — was appropriate for humans who lived in the thick of that era.

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    But now that humans like us are living in the Age of Awakening, we can do things differently.

    In a nutshell, here is why I’m challenging today’s entire Enlightenment Establishment by publishing “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”

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    Oscar Manuel says:

    Thanks, Rose. I’m glad Comments #277-279 were clear enough to get across the crux of what I was trying to say!

    I love the term “Enlightenment Establishment” for your new book. Really makes sense to me.

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    A Spiritual Princess says:

    I know all about thought forms. They’re made of energy, not human matter. That makes them spiritual.

    Why wouldn’t some beautiful spiritual thought forms be just the thing for making a person’s worship more beautiful?

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    A SPIRITUAL PRINCESS, it’s good that you’re interested in thought forms. However, you could stand to learn more accurate knowledge, and more practical knowledge, than what you revealed in your comment.

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    For example, most thought forms in your aura — or in your furniture and clothes, and also any vehicle you might own: Most of these thought forms are either negative or outdated.

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    All you Blog-Buddies, how can you improve your knowledge and skills when it comes to thought forms?

    A handy resource is “Use Your Power of Command for Spiritual Cleansing and Protection.”

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    Beyond the link just provided, you might be interested to read this book review for that powerful resource for Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING, that is, self-healing.

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    For any of you who are more ambitious about learning skills for Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING, might I recommend this?

    The Spiritually Sparkling® Collection of Online Workshops will give you leading-edge knowledge, plus personal coaching and community through the Forums for each lessons, once you’ve signed up past the Free Intro level.

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    OSCAR MANUEL, my shoutout to you and all of your Comment #282.

    I’m so glad you love the term “Enlightenment Establishment” in the new book for spiritual empowerment and genuine progress at personal development.

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    Adrian Gould says:

    Darshan Is a Matter of Degree, a Continuum

    This makes alot of sense to me…. A matter of degrees rather than binary yes or no.

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    Adrian Gould says:

    A while ago I started conversing with a friend on the phone, who lived across several time zones and in Age of Awakening Enlightenment.

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    Adrian Gould says:

    Each time we spoke at the end of our call, after our conversation I felt like a child from Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, effervescent, giggly, like little bubbles were bubbling up my throat.

    Even though we just talked about simple normal things.

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    Darshan matters now, as always.

    The version of Darshan we give-and-receive living now, in the Age of Awakening, is the topic of this article, of course.

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    Your observations here are important, ADRIAN.

    What is one of the best reasons for “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening“?

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    When we and other people we know live in Spiritual Enlightenment, it could feel a lot like living in Heaven.

    Thanks for the indirect reminder, ADRIAN.

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