There comes a moment when your usual life stops satisfying you, even if everything seems fine on the outside. You lose interest, meaning, and questions arise with no answers: “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “Why is everything happening this way?”
All of these are signs that a person is on the threshold of spiritual awakening.
In this article, we will examine how spiritual awakening begins, why self-knowledge without connection to the soul often leads to a dead end, and what happens when you truly start to hear yourself for the first time.
How to Recognize Spiritual Awakening
What is Spiritual Awakening, the Call of the Soul
Awakening is the call of the soul.
You begin to feel a certain call from within; something leads, guides, and pushes you somewhere. You may not understand where or why, but something pushes you, and time and again you encounter specific situations that lead you in one single direction.
In our Telegram channel, we conducted a poll, and it turned out there is a certain percentage of people who do not know what awakening is at all, and do not understand whether they are awakened or not.
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The Moment of Awakening
If we look at the entire path of human development, people usually start with self-knowledge and self-development. But what is the paradox here?
You can spend your whole life “self-knowing” and “self-developing” and get nowhere. Among psychologists and astrologers who are not into spirituality, all their unprocessed personal parts are clearly visible.
Surely among your circle you know those who attend various courses, order all sorts of cards, study human design and so on, putting in a great deal of effort to understand themselves and the meaning of life.
But this is precisely the limitation of self-development and self-knowledge if there is no spiritual component.
Despite the fact that psychology is considered the science of the soul, few specialists from various fields of psychology reach this point or even talk about the need to establish contact with the soul.
Often, after reading all kinds of popular literature, people eventually arrive at this topic. And in principle, from this moment, awakening begins.
Awakening looks like a moment of realization. It is as if all your tossing and turning, doubts, feelings of being lost, and lack of self-confidence do not disappear, but something inside you is illuminated, and it becomes clear and obvious — go this way.
This is what is called the moment of awakening.
Awakening has a demarcation line that divides life into “before” and “after,” because your perception of yourself, the people around you, and what is happening in the world changes completely and entirely.
These changes do not happen instantly.
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Where the path of awakening begins
Where awakening begins
For this moment to occur, too many questions arise, and you endlessly search for answers to them. What you find calms you for a while, but then you realize it’s not right, and you start searching again, searching, searching.
The entire process begins with such global philosophical questions: “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “Where am I going?”
And if earlier this process began around the age of 33 — the age of Christ — now much has changed, and many young people are “tuning in.”
But in any case, all this tossing and turning, doubts, obstacles, and rakes led to questions arising, and the person finally began to hear that very call of the soul. From this moment, the path begins.
But this is only the beginning of the path, the starting point. Awakening is not a badge of honor, not an achievement. It is the moment when you first established contact with the soul and attracted its attention to yourself — you are not a bio-robot running around engaged in survival, earning money, entertainment, and pleasures, but something more.
This is a serious step that impacts everything that follows. It is a powerful milestone. Before this, life was one thing; after this, life became another.
Earlier, most often, people came to this through the deepest crisis, and not just one: here things fell apart, here they crumbled, here something collapsed, here something happened, and there were no options left but to cry out upward.
This is close to what researchers call a spiritual crisis or the “dark night of the soul” — a stage after which a qualitatively different level of perception opens up.
You surrender to something greater than yourself, and thereby send a powerful signal from within your heart to your soul. This is what is called the moment of awakening.
And then begins the path, which many do not understand, trying to continue playing the games of survival and victimhood: wanting more for themselves — more money, love, happiness, wealth, and so on.
We will consider what happens next in the following article on this topic.
What was a turning point for you — when life divided into “before” and “after”?