I’ve often said that awakening, in these utterly new and thoroughly unpredictable, high-frequency times, is a very different kettle of Zen from enlightenment. One is not a synonym for the other; awakening and enlightenment are two distinctly different possibilities.
But not only that; the kind of awakening going on these days, is different from anything humanity has experienced up until now. For the first time in history, this awakening opportunity we have right now, is meant for everybody…or at least everybody who wants it.
Awakening in these times
Awakening is a very normal (and unspecial) part of the current process we’re going through, as we each continue to rise in frequency. There’s nothing rare or mysteriously unattainable about it. In fact, as frequencies continue to rise, it will become increasingly hard to avoid it.
So let’s get more specific in our definition of what it is and how it occurs: What follows is a very simple, logical and natural progression of events that might typically lead to an awakening in these times:
As you know, the frequency of the planet is continuing to rise. If you are actively choosing the world made of love (instead of the world made of fear) your frequency keeps rising right along with it.
As you keep on rising in frequency, at a certain point you will inevitably bump up against a frequency threshold; think of it as the outer edge of your comfort zone. This is the outer edge of the bandwidth where your mind, body and level of consciousness currently make their home.
Here you are presented, usually (but not always), with an opportunity to make a higher frequency change of some kind in your life—which in turn, breaches that comfort threshold. Which then causes all parts of you to rise, as a result, into the next higher bandwidth.
(Or sometimes, the above just happens for no particular reason. You’re going on about your business as you always have, and suddenly one day you find you’ve popped into that next higher bandwidth. Whether you wanted to or not.)
In this new bandwidth, nothing looks quite the same as it did before; you’re seeing the world—both the inner and the outer circumstance of your life—from a higher vantage point. Suddenly you see what has always been incredibly obvious (but not to you), because now you’re seeing it from this higher, less obstructed view.
Generally speaking, what is suddenly seen—at least in my own experience—is eye opening. Like an icy cold bucket of Wim Hof right in the face.
Sometimes the new view opens up broader vistas of amazingly expansive and exciting new possibilities as well…but even so, it’s fair to say it’s always a somewhat rude awakening.
And funnily enough, the newfound clarity is rarely about something you were unaware of before. It’s just that now, the puzzle pieces have all unexpectedly clattered into place; the disconnected dots have joined up into a coherent picture. And what was merely theoretical knowledge before this, has suddenly become KNOWING.
And in this knowing, you can’t help but realize that prior to this moment, you didn’t actually know anything you thought you knew.
Required in these times
Good old fashioned enlightenment is definitely still a thing, clearly. Many are resonant to it—and why not? But although it remains a wondrous (albeit rare) possibility, it’s clear to me that it isn’t what’s required for the strange passage we currently find ourselves in.
But awakening IS required. We’ll encounter it over and over again, each time we hit one of those frequency thresholds and move beyond it.
It’s because these awakenings are the means through which higher frequencies get assimilated by our mind/body/spirit. We need to integrate and embody each incremental shift of consciousness that arises, whenever we traverse one frequency bandwidth into the next higher one.
That’s awakening. Or at least, that’s the form it appears to take in these constantly shifting times. Incremental awakening is a slow, beautiful and (relatively!) gentle way of taking this unfathomably steep climb in frequency, with as little altitude sickness as possible.
We’ll each have many, many awakenings to look forward to in the coming years, in other words, as we stumble forward out of one decaying world, and slowly rise to meet the new and magnificent world made of love.
I had one of them this week, actually. Threshhold breach/awakenings, I mean.
True to form, it was pretty rude. But also exciting and invigorating. Filled with sparkling-cold clarity about what needs to change…and way beyond my usual comfort vista.
I’m still picking the ice chips out of my hair, figuratively speaking, so I don’t want to say too much more about it.
But if I do end up writing another book, it will surely be all about this.
Meanwhile, back to you…
I know this transition to a love-based world seems like a neverending arewethereyet? journey. Truth is, we’re a long way in…but with a fairly long way still to go. Lots of hills yet to climb, lots of comfort zones to move beyond; lots of incremental awakenings demanding inner and outer change.
And nobody can do that bit for you.
It’s all an incredibly, uh, interesting adventure, isn’t it? Probably more than any of us bargained for. You may not even recall having signed up for this epic ride. But here we all are, together. In the nosebleed seats.
Hang in there for the ascent, my friend. It’s getting steep, I know. But I’m pretty sure it’ll be worth it in the end.
Thank you Carrie for your insights. It helps me a great deal as I feel subtle shifts happening to me this year in my perspectives. I’m having challenges that I am less reactive to. I was so stuck for so long but I’m changing. I know this change is needed for the world to change. I want the peace of God for myself and everyone.