The unsettling and equally beautiful thing about spiritual awakenings is that they occur at the least expected times. There is no way you can plan for them.

They lurch into your life and shake everything up like tornadoes. But the hidden gift buried deep within them is that they occur at the precise time that you need them the most. Listen to its call and your life will be transformed into something meaningful and significant. If you have experienced a spiritual awakening, you have come to see through the lies and illusions of this world.

Deep in your soul, you realize that nothing external has ever, and can ever, bring you true happiness or fulfillment. This profound realization leaves you craving for something richer, more fulfilling, and something that will make you feel whole once again. On this page, you will find all the possible resources you need for the beginning of your journey including what spiritual awakening is, common spiritual awakening symptoms, and much more. If you feel this page may help a friend or family member close to you, please share it and pass along this vital information.

We begin to question our old beliefs, habits, and social conditioning, and see that there is much more to life than what we have been taught. Spiritual awakenings stir the deepest and most significant questions within us that we have been putting off asking or have been too scared to touch. Searching for God, or for the Divine, is a common desire during this experience.

I experienced the beginnings of my spiritual awakening in At that time, I was deeply brainwashed and trapped in a world of cultish teachings from the fundamentalist Christian church I was born into. But something was eating away at me. I began to doubt, question, and sense that there was way more to life than my indoctrinated outlook, and I felt deeply lost and alone.

I had no one outside of the church that I felt comfortable talking to about my feelings. As a result, I felt so alienated and suffocated with loneliness that I developed depression, health issues, OCD, and chronic anxiety, the latter lasting for many years. Like Neo in the movie The Matrix , I was being offered the red and blue pill. Should I continue taking the blue pill and remain in my comfortable ignorance? Or should I take the red pill and be free but experience the pain of waking up?

Long story short, I chose the red pill. I would often carry the unshakable sensation that I was falling endlessly through a void of darkness. The Dark Night of the Soul descended quickly upon me. And ultimately, I had no fucking idea what was happening and thought for sure I was losing it or would burn in hell for eternity.

No regret. Spiritual awakenings happen as a natural product of your Soul evolving, expanding, and maturing. Just as everything in life grows, so too does our connection with our Souls. The more you connect to your Soul whether accidentally or intentionally , the more you experience transformation.

The more you come to embody your Soul, the more you taste true and lasting joy, peace, fulfillment, freedom, and love.

While the spiritual awakening process can feel painful and disturbing at first, it ultimately helps you to live a more meaningful life. This is traumatic, but a necessary part of your expansion. The answer is that innumerable circumstances can trigger this process! There really is no one answer. Spiritual awakenings can happen at any moment or period in your life.

They can be spontaneous, but they can also be triggered by major life changes , illnesses, tragedies, and traumas such as life-threatening illnesses, car accidents, divorces, war, midlife crises, and much more.

Awakening can also happen due to your temperament. Furthermore, for some people, spiritual awakenings are even triggered by deep but challenging twin flame relationships. Generally speaking, the spiritual awakening process happens in conjunction with an experience known as The Dark Night of the Soul. The Dark Night of the Soul is a period in life when we feel completely cut off from God or the Divine.

The more aware you become of your disconnection from the Divine, the more chances you have of experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul. Going through a Dark Night of the Soul is profoundly entwined with the process of spiritual awakening. Before seeing the light i.

Just think about the analogy of getting dressed. In order to put on new clothes, you must take off the old ones. That, in a nutshell, is essentially what the Dark Night of the Soul is about. The old must be stripped away in order to make way for the new. This means that the suffering you experience during the Dark Night of the Soul is for a purpose — and that is the destruction of the old outdated beliefs, identities, habits to pave way for fresh ways of being.

This life is a cycle of birth and death. Everything is stripped away from you. There is no light, no clarity, and no peace. But please know that it is a stage, and like everything in life, it will naturally fade. There are ways of speeding up the Dark Night like doing inner work which we have explored on this website extensively.

I have gone through a bleak and chaotic Dark Night of the Soul, and let me tell you, inner work is vital. Signs you might be experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul along with a spiritual awakening include the following:.

You can take our free Dark Night of the Soul test if you need more clarification. The spiritual awakening process is complex, multi-layered, and different for everyone. In reality, it cannot be fit into neat categories. The following stages are general. They define the overall flow of the spiritual awakening process:. In this stage, you experience the aforementioned Dark Night of the Soul.

This is a time of confusion, disconnection, alienation, depression, and great unhappiness with life. There is a great looming emptiness inside of you. This stage either emerges spontaneously or due to a life crisis e. You start to perceive reality in a totally different way. In this stage, you start seeing through the lies and delusions propagated by society. We're all eternally expanding and unfolding. An example of a step one moment could be that you lose your job.

You initially find this painful or undesirable, but the experience helps you clarify what it is you do want. A lot of us get stuck in the step one moment, focusing all of our attention on what we don't want, rather than moving forward into the clarity of what it is we do want and focusing on that. When you're in a space of focusing heavily on what's going wrong, you're in a step one moment.

Well said Jessica. I had my spiritual awakening back in October from a Twin Flame encounter. I randomly had my awakening months after we met and my life changed since. My first job closed. I was traveling to Dominican Republic for a month back in Dec Jan The Coronavirus Pandemic took over the world.. Made a ton saved up on unemployment, couple of job and business venture opportunities.

So many positive things went right for me in A crucial turning point in my life that I see light in my life and the world in darkness with the pandemic. My ex was extremely abusive and narcisssitic and led me to my kundalini awakening.

My older bro forgave me for stuff in the past. My favorite video game of all time, Last of Us Part 2 gets Game of the Year while my favorite channel from high school, G4 announces a return next year! Finally see positive progress and my life is going somewhere since and now I know how to invest my money in the stock market with experiences and CDs, now ETFs and Index Funds while having thousands of dollars saved up.

Easier to find work since my first job. Finally I made it and seeing growth in me. Now I'm waiting for my real twin flame to appear in my life. Can't wait after this pandemic ends and travel and do other amazing things.

After years of struggle and finding first job and being hospitalized for a stress induced Psychosis due to trouble and frustration finding work. Finally my life is getting together and God blessed me with this spiritual awakening for all the right reasons. This was so insightful and helpful. I was feeling kind of lost because my perception of reality has been shifting for the past few months and a lot of things you see on internet just made me feel like I was going nowhere because I didnt have one big awakening moment.

I understand now that it is a process and your article is helping me navigating through all the emotions triggered by this completely new spiritual journey. My name is jayvon and idk but I been feeling more awareness of myself at all time.

Then you can start for example to have insights, mystical experiences, moments of great peace or pleasure without something or someone being the cause, the responsable. This is a phase of joy, rebirth, hope, wonder, gratitude However, whether we like it or not, life is change, and every honeymoon comes to an end: there is a time when you become tired, exhausted, fed up, frustrated by the practices and spiritual teachers who got you here.

You realize the myths that you had created or that others made you believe about spirituality and you are tired, almost disgusted by the words you hear or read about spirituality. Maybe you even had wonderful insights, revelations, mystical experiences, periods of deep connection with the Divine or with yourself, but now you want something more, you want to get to the point, you want to put an end to everything, you want to end the research.

And you feel with all yourself, viscerally, that it is possible, that it must be concretely possible. Again dissatisfaction, incompleteness, unhappiness, force you to search more deeply, they are pushing you closer to the truth. You crave for an authentic and concrete spirituality , which permeates and invades yourself and your life ALWAYS, not only part-time, not only during spiritual retreats, or for short periods.

So you no longer have the desire nor time for books, practices, teachers or superficial teachings that could not get you at destination after all this time of seeking, but rather to a dead end where you feel stuck, unable to proceed further.

This is the most prolific period where you integrate the lessons you have learned by applying them in your daily life, you experience deeper and long lasting changes, which can also be subtle or "ordinary", but have a great impact in your approach and in your life. And you may also find means like Shaktipat , appositely made to leave room for tangible facts, for the direct experience of your true nature , of your natural state, instead of words or temporary mystical experiences.

In summary, to simplify extremely, we could say that when a "definitive awakening" occurs, personal identifications move from the foreground to the background, and there is the clear and permanent realization that you are Consciousness.

Or, in other words, you notice that the background of your being is now actually in the foreground, and that it has always been here all the time! Some features of "life after awakening" are contentment, simplicity, peace, acceptance, presence, stability.

A spiritual awakening does not change your life, but it does change the way you interact and respond to life. In fact it is not a question of transcending life or the material world, but rather bringing the Divine into your daily life.

Please know that these are not precise, linear stages. The path is strange, confused, colorful, chaotic, bizarre and both painful and wonderful. YOUR path and spiritual awakening are unique. There is not one better than the other.

You chose it, and you, Consciousness, among other things are infinitely intelligent, so even if sometimes it may seem to you that you can't do it, that this is a torture, madness, that the pain or frustration or despair are absurd, unsustainable, endless, know that it is perfect, it is a dress that you have tailored for yourself, and therefore YOU can do it, if you really want it!

The "next phase" after a spiritual experience is, or rather should be because we often get lost , stabilizing this type of experiences and, above all, not falling into the trap of searching, of trying to feel them again and again - the syndrome of "I had it, but now I lost it" - or to extend them, chasing the illusion that by doing this you will achieve the so-called Enlightenment.

Staring into the void is simply staring into the void. You are looking backwards up the lens. Fleeing with gladness back to my boundaries I felt reorganized back into my life. I still see the monotonous balance all over but I watch it through the rhythm of life instead of through contemplation of higher concepts. And I am healed by the knowledge of my own perfect balance in which I struggle as all beings struggle with their own perfect balance.

It is a brilliant lightshow. Once I found truth bit by piece here and there and now suddenly, instead of looking for truths here and there I see THE truth everywhere and in all things. My life has been an intimate conversation with the infinite that I am only just now becoming aware of. The whole of my life, as yours has been. It was never a destination.

It has always been an evolving experience. And by that I mean you can reflect into your past and see exactly how you have completely manipulated the gears of the universe in an attempt to teach yourself how to see how you are manipulating it. I look at all people and though they sleep I see and know wakefulness is a breath away from them.

All are boiling at the edge of it. I am not so very much further down the road. As all experience does to the predictable degree which is directly related with how much meaning we give it. Which is awesomely a lot. Am I awake? You are as awake as you are. Am I not awake? You are as not awake as you still are. Has it happened? There will be no doneness within the infinite.

Has it happened enough? With ridiculous ease these sunk deep into my understanding. If your experience continues in any accord with mine just keep staring into the void, or backwards up the lens it will continue to dissolve the conditioning between you enough to step into your inheritance and begin to see down from the infinite and out in the world as it expresses around you.

In the appreciation that we bring color and meaning and growth and experience. That is our gift as human beings. And how important is that in a dreamless void? I completely understand how you feel! Keep going and things wont seem so meaningless.

Hi Chris, I understand exactly what you said about it all making sense until you came back into your body and the resulting confusion. What has helped my body assimilate my new mind is Faster-EFT tapping, yoga, massage, accupressure, chiropractic adjustments, getting enough sun and sleep, eating well, praying, affirmations and visualizations and learning how energy moves through our body-the chakra system.

God bless you, brother. Thanks for suggesting this book. People talk, blah blah blah about such silly things. I find myself much happier when I am alone. I have also felt this way for some time now. At first, I thought I was going through some sort of deep depression, as there was stress in my life and I felt like nothing was going as I had planned. How have you, or have you … been able to cope with the increasing disinterest in things that most people tend to talk about?

I also have been having this experience. For example I was sitting with some people last night and instead of hearing conversations I just see their egos defining themselves, I hear them speaking within their limited world view and realise that the conversation itself is not interesting to me because what is spoken of is only one tiny part of reality when we could be speaking of so much more. Infinite possibilities!.

Since there is no separation how can an awakened mind judge others. Is that not judging oneself? This is my current lesson I am working through. I came here because I need help. I think I have full awaken or close to it and i do feel very disoriented, overwhelmed.. I feel free yet I am a bit lost as to what to do next.. I feel invincible, i feel like i can see clearly, yet i have lost everything..

The process of realisation of existence when I no longer perceived reality started for me started in I locked my door and have lived a reclusive life since. I am no longer a conditioned response mechanism, victimised by my own perception. What changed? How I feel!

My feelings were responding to how I perceived the world. How I perceived the world was prejudiced by the beliefs I used to sustain my perception and the narrative I used to explain why I felt the way I felt. We are beyond words and concepts and how we feel is up to us. Jim, how did your reintegration back into the working world go? I have been healing for the past two years and now must also go back to pay to sustain life.

Any suggestions would be helpful and greatly appreciated. God bless you. Confirms that I am not losing my mind and I am not alone. Positive affirmations and meditating also have been beneficial. This morning I was up at 4am. I suddenly realised that the experience that I had in was a deep awakening. I always called it a rebirth and since grew into spirituality. What happened in was that I nearly died, it was a refusal to carry on in life.

One night, I had visions of spirits, woke my mother up who thought I was losing my mind, I scared her to death, she called an ambulance and they took me to a psychiatric hospital. I was locked in for exactly 6 months. Then I heard one day my mother ask the doctor if I would die and these words were a trigger.

I was at that bifurcation point of my life and the trigger were the two words, die or live as the word die implied also live deep inside. From that day I started recovering, I saw everything in this world becoming magic, fascinating, beautiful, I lost the fear of being alone, abandoned…this occurred in aa matter of a month and the fascination kept going.

Six months later I went abroad, started a new life, became a teacher which was one of the visions for my future life while in hospital. But after 10 years the need to isolate myself came back so I quit the job carried on teaching through internet and lived secluded in the mountains. Until 18 months agp when I had a new awakening which changed my life again.

I realised that the sickness that I was told I had 27 years ago was not a sickness, that I had nothing at all and what I was told by doctors was a mistake. I took the risk of quitting all treatments. The doctor said that I would die in a few months. I then traveled around the world thinking that if I had to die I would at least die free of treatments that were ruining my life but deep inside I knew for sure that I had no thing.

My family has come closer to me, I can say that when my mother goes, I will have had time to really make peace with her. There is still the duality plane in me although I have a deep sense of compassion and of universe belonging. What I do has sense and I do things with depth and passion. My passion level is 8 on a scale of 0 to 10 and I experience life as a n exciting day to day discovery. This life was probably the life that I was supposed to have and I got it through acceptance.

I know that it will change again, that passion will then maybe reach a 10 out of 10, it means deep inside that new revelations will come up freeing further the mind and body. I would like so much to share all this with someone who could understand and respond. I have in mind of writing a book on what I experienced. I need to speak with people open enough first. I know this will come too. True self discovery. When we are fully awakened I believe we will understand that there were never any mistakes.

Sending you encouragement. I am 24 years old and I have been going through my awakening these past months! It has been amazing. When it started it was a normal afternoon, I was reading a book and my mind triggered in some way. Something in my brain had a connection which made me gasp in awe and I knew some thing had changed.

I came to the realization that we are all made of start dust. I have chosen an academic career getting various degrees and pursuing a life in corporate positions so I immediately began to do all kinds of research due to the images and realizations in my brain.

From that point on I went through my struggle between my ego and my self. I analyzed every part of my being starting to see my life as a line of bright connections pin pointing various good and bad moments. I then began to see the bigger picture of life. I could see past the veil, past the lies the cheats.

I can even see and understand connections in history from years ago, seeing that there are other beings in the universe that are connected to us. I see the magic in past beings as if all the answers are in my head and everything naturally makes sense. The journey has been tough and I was definitely confused, but my heart and mind could not be more grateful.

I am excited and ready to experience more and use my spirituality to help our Earth. I struggle still with my everyday but I have planned a better life that will allow me to experience and explore this part of me while also having a stable life in this dimension. I decided to move to a country where I can feel connected to nature and am choosing to study a path different from the more corporate choices I had made. I can feel my powers coming back.

I can sense more things than when I was a child and I now know that this has been me all along, I was just too scared to be who I am. I love this! I hope all of you here love it and use this to help humanity enlighten to better times.

I am curious to know where you are now in your journey, if you would like to share. I am considering doing the same thing. Last week I had a giggle.. A camera landing on a comet. Scientists dedicate their lives towards trying to find discoveries.. Stuck in the one same repeating process.. Our job is to evaluate our experiences because we have achieved all experiences and use the nuggets of gold we have to place in humanity; to we can collectively achieve perfection through 5 senses.

Then awareness will total in unison.. Expanding ripple further senses. All is infinite. Time captures a process of unity. Your post caught my eye. My awakening has become a scary complicated lonely experience. I had to die for me to live at this point makes no sense to me… It started off as an emotional tragedy created by my heart and cries.

Thank you for reading, like anyone actually cares lol. I care brother. The same has happened for me. There are so many people who get it. Same here, I guess we are not lonely and other people on the comment section are so nice it makes me happy. Thank you for this post of this chapter of the book.

Anyway, I typed random words in google that could possibly help me explain it better, which then came across this page. I just purchased the book and allowed my friends to read this page. Thank you again. I have always been a spiritual person but right now I am finding it hard to cope in every day life, i find it hard to continue with life responsibilities and I feel like I am going simply insane.

I have been meditating every single night, receiving hypnotherapy and I am due to have reiki on monday. I want to feel more grounded, I have an urge to wake up early every morning but I am overwhelmed by fear and anxiety with what is happening to me and I have diarrhea every morning and a complete loss of appetite. I have felt this bad for just over a week now although it has felt longer, I have also broke away from my current partney as he does not understand my situation and I can sense a lot of negativity around him..

Does this seem strange to anyone? Sometimes during the day i will feel completely happy and at peace with myself, then the fear kicks in which leads to panic attacks. Please believe me when I say you will come through it. In the meantime, rest as much as you need to, stop kicking and screaming and give in to what is happening, accept it is necessary and you are healing and will heal.

Go with the flow as much as you can, know that spirit is completely protecting you at this time and although you feel alone you are not, you are surrounded by angels always.

You are right that no one understands you and they think your loopy, that is fine. Stop trying to convince them otherwise, it makes you hurt more. You will get through no matter how dark it gets, you will begin to even out and the light will be there.

Remember the light is already in you shining brightly and one day you will be able to let it shine xx. Its just what I needed to hear.. Just unable to surface.. Just feels so good to hear those words from a kindred soul!

Thank you o much…. Sounds like to me you need some time in nature. Away from everything. I felt lost and crazy at one point. I sold everything I owned. Packed up all my belongings and went hitch hiking for five years. It was the only thing that saved my sanity.

The only time I ever truly was completely content and happy. And do it alone. Good luck. I send my positive vibes and love. Hello Alexander, I lay desparate on the bed right now reading your commentand I swear I am going through the exact situation you are now. I had the awakening expirience in December last year and for the next three — four month i had the best expirience of my life. Radiant colors, beautiful sounds amd all that. But of late, i cant quite point out since when, i have been on utter depression, apathy, isolation, i cut off communication with most of my friends and half my family.

I occasionally see the oneness in everything still, but it doesnt move me like it used to. I am still in this condition now and it has marvelled me how your comment describes my situation. Please let me know how you come out of it when you do. I too am at a loss, my awakening lasted for 6 months.

It was the most exhilarating experiences that I have ever encountered. This was about five years ago, through meditation, reading, and research, I have really been trying to get that state of oneness back. What I call spiritual depression, is otherwise known as the dark night of the soul. Has really taken its toll on me. Hi Alexandra. I hope that you are coming out of that extreme heavy stage now. It is very challenging indeed. You are NOT insane.

Be honest about what is happening to you with the people around you, they may not understand in one way, but deep inside themselves they do. If you really have to collapse in a heap, then do so. There is nothing wrong with that. Take that time to rest as much as possible.

Much Love, Robert. This is crazy. I just want life to be better and I know it has the potential to be. I have the feeling something huge is going to happen within the next 3 years.

The past month has been the worst so far. Just thought I would give everyone an update as to what has happened with me now.. I did however go on a meditation retreat for three days and recieved a lot of spiritual healing. I am finally out of that pit of hell, now I can eat and sleep again and experience good days and bad, rather than days that are just completely horrendus.

Now I am just starting to find myself again, picking myself up from the hell I have just been through.. I lost everything day by day like watching sand dissipate from my hand. I moved to a mountain top and was unable to function but had an enlightened friend taking care of me I was unaware of their state at the time.

Depression is lightly put for the emotional roller coaster my being was experiencing from the relentless dying ego. Ways to take my deflated life became the only thing of interest, for motivation was a long distant dream and death seemed at least pleasing to digest. But the good stuff is a simple reminder from the Divine source that you are on the right track…. To have such an experience in this lifetime is a gift that cannot be communicated with words, so trying to obtain understanding from other beings that still reside on the the 3rd dimension is a unfair task to ask of them.

When the pain kicks in sit with it, feel it, love the pain, and be GRATEFUL for you are truly letting go of the nasty garbage that has been gathering in you for unknown lifetimes. The journey is a grueling one and begins fresh with each moment…. But this is the only moment to be had. I like to check with my doctor sometimes for reasurrances. Take care of your body, give it LOTS of rest, eat well.

It seems determined to take me to ever deeper levels of this. Also breathwork has been a great tool for clearing out the traumas and past patterning.

Good luck! Thank You All for Everything. Thanks Everyone. I have been awakened and I love it! It not only changed my life but it radiates out to my loved ones and all that I have contact with.

I disagree a ton in this article. I find it and the responses to be quite negative. I believe I am a work in progress and I refuse to look at this negatively. I am so very blessed and I a going to do great things.. Huge things.. I agree with you Kathy. I had my awakening 18 years ago and it was the best thing ever — peace, joy, love and acceptance for everyone and myself, understanding how simple our life is, feeling one with everything, but at the same time really knowing who I am for the first time.

All this had incredible effect on everyone around me, I was like a magnet for people, I made many new friends, even the ones that disliked me in the past became very friendly. With awakening comes incredible compassion for people and acceptance of any life situation, so negativity simply ceases to exist. I felt like the whole universe was supporting my new life and helping all my dreams come true.

I wish everyone could feel like this one day, as it is really amazing! Thank you for posting this article. I think it is very important to let people who are going through the process know what to expect.

The more difficult part is the dark night of the soul. For me this happened after the euphoria that lasted for three months. What a shock! Two absolute extremes. From bliss to abyss. From being totally in love with my creator, to being totally disconnected from her. From seeing things clearly, to there being no point to anything.

That is, I am not paralysed anymore. I can safely say that I have experienced all three levels of pain. They are all excruciatingly heavy. I can also say that I have experienced all three levels of bliss. Which brings me to the following question:. I was a seeker for 20 years.

Somewhere in between the extremes I felt a deep sense of peace. I love peace. Having experienced what you have, I believe there has to be a catalyst to enter the dark night-usually tragic as in my case, although that can be relative-and then once in, the only way out is through the attendant pain.

Although the contrast was shocking, I would say you are profounding blessed and must be in tune with your emotions and the signals you receive. You heard and heeded the call to take the journey to the other side-to know yourself fully in all your faults and all your glory.

Up until my healing, I was totally in denial and living out my ideal life-which was anything but ideal but the point is I was trying-through fantasy as there had been so much abuse in my life I dissociated.

I, in effect, had become my own abuser. When it happens is never comfortable, but I can attest to the living hell of not being spiritually and mentally conguent for years on end. You were and are blessed! As humans, we are both one with THAT and separate from it in this illusionary duality form. A difficult and extreme process to say the least, it still is as I travel this road. Breathwork for releasing any and all stuck energy, mental or physical. It takes you out of the mental constructs of possibilities and story lines, allowing us profound insights and deeper experiences of the true reality seemingly experienced slightly different by each , after a true awakening experience, healings and processing of old patterns seem to happen much quicker if you let the emotions flow freely and let the body move in all the unusual ways it wants to during a breathwork session!!!

A great practice to reset ourselves in our natural states: freedom from tension, fear, anxiety.