Your Stages of Spiritual Awakening: Step 5
Here is step 5, the final step, in crafting your own stages of spiritual awakening from the direct experiences of your life.
In steps 1-4, you excavated your inner landscape around Spiritual Awakening, refreshing the flow of revelation while owning the revelations from you from sacred experiences. You also established allies on your journey, welcoming in inspiration from other pathways of awakening.
Before launching into step 5, I suggest taking a few minutes to review all you have documented so far. It can be grounding to give yourself a fresh look at the rich archive of material you have to draw from. Simply let yourself gaze openly at what arose in your previous exploration, taking it in without needing to analyze anything. You are not trying to make anything happen here. You are intentionally arriving into the landscape of your awakening material, coming current time with the process.
Now it is time to weave together all the material you have harvested…
Step 5: Craft a map that illuminates The Stages of your Spiritual Awakening.
A map is a story. Ask your Intuitive Wisdom to guide you in telling the story of your Spiritual Awakening in a way that brings you closer to your deep self. Tell a story that is true to you. And remember, a story that is true to you is not always a literal story.
One way to start your map is to playfully draw/write/mark out a “timeline” of some of your key sacred eruptions. This timeline need not be linear and might look more like a constellation. Once you have the orientation structure of a timeline in place, you can let your storytelling unfold in whatever direction truly interests and empowers you.
Your map may have bullet points, narrative prose, images, poetry, fragments of scattered text, or any other type of storytelling that connects you to your awakening journey. You might find you want to title sections of the map. You may somehow highlight meta themes or higher-order patterning. Your story may have blank spots or places of confusion that are important to note.
Your story of Spiritual Awakening is a living, wild thing. Its path is organic and unique to you. It won’t fit neatly into any set structure. I highly encourage you not to impose an order onto your map. Or, try to tie it all up in a bow to be presentable. This is for you. It doesn’t have to be shared with anyone. You are free to craft a map that only makes sense to you.
Whatever happens, allow this process to be fun and mystical for yourself.
If you would like to really get playful, add illuminations from parallel versions of yourself into your map. In parallel realities, countless simultaneously existing alternate versions of yourself are living their full lives. These extended versions of yourself have made other choices than “you” have made. Opening conscious contact with even one alternate Self greatly expands your scope of experience. Your Intuitive Wisdom has access to this vast spectrum of your being and will guide you to connect with what is meaningful at this time if you ask.
You can also visit future versions of yourself and see what happens if you map steps of your Spiritual Awakening backwards to meet up with the current time you. There is lots of expansion to be had with reverse and sideways causality. Reverse causality is the way something happening in the “future” contributes to creating your current reality. Sideways causality is the way that parallel reality Selves contribute to creating your current reality. These are only two of the many forms of causality you can play with.
But these two in particular are powerful ways to align positive synchronicities for yourself. Remember, you are not limited in any way in your visioning. This is your awakening story. And you are literally making it up as you go along.
Let your mapping take the time that it takes. As with the other steps, you may wish to return multiple times, especially with this creative task.
Your Intuitive Wisdom will tell you when you are complete with this step.
You can be complete without being “finished.” The story of your awakening is eternally unfolding. You can always return to any of these reflections and update your map when it feels nourishing to do so.
Once you reach your natural completion, take a few moments to notice how your energy has evolved over this process. And validate whatever you notice.
In your own way, celebrate your amazing awakening journey. You deepened clarity for yourself. And you have contributed to deepening clarity in the collective imprint of Spiritual Awakening. Consciousness has expanded all around due to your actions. Celebrate.
Finally, cultivate appreciation for everything and everyone who has been with you on your journey. And dedicate The Stages of your Spiritual Awakening to a joyous life for all beings.