r/awakened

I wrote this a while back but thought I’d reshare incase it helps someone in their ascension journey.

1) Sattvic Lifestyle:

- If you can refrain from alcohol please do so. It is said that the word “Alcohol” came from the Arabic term “Al-Kuhl” which means body-eating spirit. I know those in their 20s are still in their party phase so please be moderate with this stuff. Also, those having tame glasses of wine 🍷 are completely chill. For me, I cut it out completely about 4 years ago because it just never served me. 

- This one is a big one if you can do it but please stop the pornography. Now again for those younger folks, this might be tough but I’m just gonna keep it real. Nothing removes mindfulness as much as pornography. I cut it out like 4 years ago and practiced retention and the energy that I typically expended rose within me. Most men don’t know this but they’re depleting their “Chi”/inner essence with that stuff. So if you could, refrain. If not, it’s cool too not telling you what to do 😌. Also, the myth that is out there is that porn is only detrimental to men but that's not true. It can also negatively impact women as well. So if you are a woman who watches that stuff and you’d like to abstain from it, I completely support you. A loving practice of sex with the right partner is great but please remain mindful. 

- A clean diet if possible. I stopped meat because Ramana Maharshi and Meher Baba wrote that meat eating might lead to picking up the animal’s karmic imprints or sanskaras. But up to you to figure out your relationship with food. It helps to have a mindful approach to what you eat. Please only consider this if you’re inspired to; being vegetarian doesn’t automatically equal enlightenment. Just sharing a path I walked. After years of vegetarian practice, life recently just returned me to meat eating a month ago, forced my hand somewhat 😂.

- Be mindful of what you watch. Are you watching things on TV or YouTube that could lower your vibration? If you love the news that's ok but don’t overly watch that stuff. What you intake into your consciousness is so important and some things we watch on the screens can be poisonous. 

- Weed is cool but use it as a meditative shamanic tool. Not as a way to escape life. It helps one delve into the subconscious to meditate away karmic imprints. 

2) Help Others:

Now in this section, I don’t mean going out of your way on some GRAND save the world type shit. Or open a soup-kitchen type shit. Nah. In your personal life, there are always opportunities to help others. Maybe it’s listening to Grandma tell stories from the 50s, maybe it’s lending a buck to the homeless woman down the street, or maybe it's answering questions for seekers on here. Look out for opportunities to lend a helping hand in your life. And please note that you don’t have to go out of your way to do this, just help within the flow of your life. It might even be a kind warm smile to a stranger. I’m not talking about doing anything outlandish. Just small small stuff. 

3) Contemplative Meditation:

When I say meditation, I don’t mean the Calm App. I’m talking about Spiritual Meditation. I’m telling you this right now. Mantra chanting both inner and external, preferably inner, will do more to raise your consciousness than almost any activity that you could engage in. Why? Because when you chant mantras, you’re keeping the mind single-pointed. And keeping a single-pointed awareness is how you discipline the monkey mind 🐒. Now please meditate daily if you can. Abstaining from porn will give you the inner discipline and gumption to meditate daily. However, if you are wasting your life force consistently then your power is dissipated making it harder to be disciplined. Chanting “Rama“ is a good mantra that is related to the heart or “Om Namo Bhaghavate Sri Ramanaya”…but whatever mantra resonates with you is best.

4) Pass Spiritual Tests/Temptations:

This is probably the most important component in opening the Spiritual Heart. You are always going to be tested to move you away from the inner Bodhi Tree 🌳. Some calamities will come to try to move you away from your center. Do not let it move you. Always stay as Awareness and don’t let the mind carry you away into the thought world. Whatever calamities that arise (Bills, breakups, sports losses, impending notices, etc.) please find the Bodhi Tree internally first before solving it externally. Stay as Awareness always, stay as the Self and once you have stilled the inner waters of the mind; then go solve that external problem. It is also SUPER important to remember that you are not the mind and that you use the mind. That way, you can stay as the Awareness that uses the mind. 

5) Satsangs/Spiritual Teachings:

Stay close to and in touch with folks who have reached a high level of spiritual consciousness. With technology, this can be easily done. You can go to Mystic Scribe on YouTube to find books on saints, Samaneri Jayesara on YouTube to find meditations on ALL types of saints, Conscious Circle channel on YouTube for a breakdown of Ramana Maharshi’s teachings. Even Mooji could help, he speaks very lucidly and directly. There are plenty of options out there so please find what resonates best and get it popping. If you come from a Christian background, Herb Fitch is fantastic in expounding the mystical nature of the Christian tradition.

6) Practice Authenticity in Everything you do:

Never be a fake person. Always keep it real even if it looks like keeping it real might be a disadvantage. Now I don’t mean to be a mean and callous person. No still be considerate but remain authentic to who you are because you are so important to the Universe. The Universe loves you and the only way to get in touch with this love is by being authentic. I’ve interacted with some folks on here who say things like “It’s probably my ego that inspired this”…That authentic statement is so amazing. It shows that someone is willing to see themselves even if they are so-called “imperfect” in that moment.

If you follow these 6 steps; it’ll make a significant impact on your journey back to Self. Namaste 🙏🏾.

I’m lonely in the sense that I don’t have a real person to talk to about anything. I talk to myself and the universe a lot but it’s not the same. My family is hard to deal with sometimes. My mother is a skeptic but more of a conspiracy theorist than being someone who follows a spiritual path. I can speak to her on some levels but it’s mainly only about our reality and the government and such. My father and sister are complete opposites. One is an atheist and I think the other believes in the way Christianity depicts god or is agnostic. My sister mainly, doesn’t really have discernment towards anything and believes the government and whatnot is just there and we shouldn’t fear anything. It’s really hard to live in a household where nobody thinks the same things as me and I can’t find other people who do. Sure, I talk to a lot of likeminded individuals on social media but it’s not the same. I don’t hate my family for their beliefs as everyone is on a different path but it’s very lonely. I have these epiphanies and ideas but no one to share them with.

I don’t really know how to explain this properly, but I’ll try.

Ever since I broke up with my ex, something shifted in me. At first I was just sad, but then I started questioning everything, life, reality, myself. I got into spirituality, then things like manifestation, and even topics like astral projection and consciousness.

At some point, I stopped distracting myself with social media (Bc I didn’t want it to influence/ Impact me about spirituality) and just sat with my thoughts. And since then, I feel like kinda gone lol…

It’s like I’m constantly aware. Before, I used to feel like I was on autopilot most of the time, but now I feel present almost 24/7. I’m aware of my thoughts, my surroundings, everything. Like I can feel fucking time, who tf feels time?? And it won’t go away

At first it felt peaceful, but now it’s starting to feel intense and confusing. (Writing this makes me feel emotional asf idk why)

I’ve also started having thoughts like:

everything is happening inside my mind

I’m alone in my own consciousness

I can shape or create my reality

And that’s where I started getting kinda uneasy

Because now I’m questioning, Is this some kind of spiritual awakening? Or is this the beginning of psychosis? Bc I know I’m not dumb

I also tried to ground myself at one point by questioning everything from the opposite side. Like I even looked up on Reddit whether spirituality is just fake or all in people’s heads, just to calm myself down.

Maybe my mind is just going too far with all of this.

The thing is, I feel aware. I don’t feel completely disconnected or out of control. But at the same time, reality feels off. Almost like there is something, I just can’t reach it yet. It’s frustrating because I can’t fully explain what I mean, but the feeling is very real.

Am I just crazy yall?

This decade marks the turning point for humanity, a new sunrise ushering in the light of consciousness to shine upon the stagnant darkness that has, for far too long, found residence here on Earth. While we still find ourselves at the infancy stage of the Great Awakening, there are clear signs that change in human consciousness is indeed taking place.

I asked Grok to compile metrics on the growth of this community over the last 5 years, but since Reddit does not disclose this data, only estimates were available. Still my findings were both illuminating and eye opening. Let me share the numbers with you:

"What is available (approximate data points from scattered public references)

• Early 2021 (around February): ~190,000–200,000 members.
• 2025–early 2026: ~550,000–568,000 members (most recent references point to the upper end).

This means the community roughly 2.75×–3× larger today than it was five years ago—an average of roughly +60,000–75,000 new members per year. Growth was almost certainly strongest during the 2020–2023 COVID period when interest in spirituality, wellness, and personal transformation surged globally."

Thank you Grok.

There you have it! This community has tripled in size over the past 5 years! That is amazing! If you are one of those people, I salute you and welcome you to this community of like minded individuals seeking to understand more deeply, our Earthly experiences from a spiritual perspective.

It is also necessary to identify that we are speaking of TWO distinct kinds of AWAKENING going on at this pivotal time in history. There is an awakening to the truth, that is to say, what is REALLY going on as compared to what we are TOLD is going on in the world. The Epstein Files are a classic example of this kind of awakening to the truth. Shocking and brutal to assimilate in an already challenging climate of rising inflation, rampantly dangerous levels of permitted immigration into Western cultures, and the ever present threat of war.

Then there is the SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, when we begin to recognize our true nature, and explore our divine heritage, and what that means going forward, navigating into unknown territory.

Only the bravest and most intrepid souls will ever read these lines of text. And together we will help anchor the energies of divine light, so that the world continues its evolution of consciousness, towards freedom and a return to wholeness.

Everyday life unfolds before you. As it unfolds, you are happy when things happen that you want. You are sad when things happen that you don’t want.

How is this fair for you?

The Earth has been here for 4.56 billion years, you’re here for 70-100 if you’re lucky. You came down, and said, “if what i want doesn’t happen, then i refuse to feel happiness”

Life doesn’t know you. It doesnt have a list of your likes and dislikes. How could you take something so beautiful and demand it to bend to your will, or else you block yourself from happiness? And when you get something that makes you happy, you say “if i ever lose this, I will be so unhappy, i better not lose this…”. The anxiety and worry that comes from that statement is very real, and you will live your whole life with that feeling if you don’t change.

So change! Why not? If what you want makes you happy. Then change what you want. Isn’t it you who decides what you like and dislike? Is there anyone else in there?

Say hello in your mind. Now say it louder, “HELLO?”. It’s just you in there, not your dad, not your mom, not your wife, not your husband. Just YOU. You inside there. You see the thoughts and the emotions in there. You sit back behind there. You’re silent. You are the one who sees. You see things, don’t you?

If i was to hold up a vase and ask you, “Is this you?” Youd say no, that’s a vase! What about a clock? Or a pencil? Same thing right? Now what about a thought? Or how about an emotion? I have exciting news, theyre not you either. They are objects. Objects your consciousness is aware of. They are no more you than the vase on the table.

Why is this important? Because as life unfolds, you react not only outside, but inside. You think the two are linked, inextricably. They are both the same. They are objects that consciousness can focus on. They do not define you in any way shape or form. You sit back there, and you identify with them, and you’ve created an ego using the events that unfold. It’s like watching the tv so long that you forget you’re on the couch.

This is so important to spiritual growth and i beg that you understand this. I care for you deeply. You there reading this. Please release yourself from the ego. Practice daily. Let go of things that don’t matter. Honor everything regardless of what it is. Do not spend your life fighting reality. Let life teach you. Don’t resist life, learn to love life. Its the only one you have.

There is no real distinction between a sensation and a thought. The distinction between a sensation and a thought is a thought. Implicit to a sensation is a reference which is a thought. Thought is integral to sensation.

A thought has no independent status. What you think are thoughts are a reference to sound. thoughts are heard. A thought is not an abstract, immaterial entity floating in some mental ether. It is a subtle internal sound, a mental audition. When we "think," we are actually listening to an inner voice (or inner noise) that references something. The semantic content ("I should eat lunch") is carried by, or perhaps identical with, the auditory image of the words. Strip away the heard quality, and nothing thought-like remains. What you thought were thoughts are actually thinks.

There is no silence. silence has no reference. A think of silence is not silence. If thoughts are heard references (auditory phenomena carrying "aboutness"), and if every sensation already carries implicit reference (a minimal directedness), then silence, by definition, has no reference. If reference is what makes any mental event register as experience at all, then silence cannot appear as silence within experience. The moment you notice "silence," you have already referenced it, you have heard the thought "this is silent" or felt the contrast against expected sound. That noticing is itself a subtle inner sound, a reference. Therefore, true silence has no place in the stream of experience. There is no silence.

In direct experience, whenever silence seems to arrive, it is instantly usurped by the thought "ah, silence..." and the auditory trace of that recognition. The purported silence was never truly there; it was a retroactive fiction created by the referencing thought.

The thought red is first a reference to the sound red and then the sound red is re-referenced to the color red. If you listen to a foreign language it sounds like bird chirping. There can be no variation without distinction. If there were truly no distinction whatsoever, variation would have nothing to vary from or against. It would be seamless, boundless, reference-free flux. Infinite invariance admits no boundaries, no contrasts, no detectable change. Variation that cannot be detected or referenced is experientially indistinguishable from no variation. It dissolves.

There is variation in distinction. Sensation carries implicit reference (distinction). Thought is heard sound (distinction). That distinction is never static; it varies. Therefore, there is no silence (no distinction = no variation possible). Foreign speech remains “bird chirping” with rich variation precisely because auditory distinctions are still operating and modulating.

By what means is the distinction made, if not by reference? It cannot be made by any other means. There is no direct, non-referential access to “the color itself.” There is no raw, pre-referential redness waiting to be distinguished. The very act that singles out “this particular red” is the referential act.

The appearance is by reference only. The reference and the referent are the same. there is no red without reference to red. Each reference is autonomous. In and of itself appearing with each appearance having complete autonomy.

Variation can only be made by reference. There is no actual variation. There is no reference to the re-referencing. That is just more re-referencing. Variation is a reference to re-referencing. Existence per se, is a reference to itself.

Continuity appearing through discontinuity. Any attempt to reference the referencing is without referent. Upon waking from a dream, what remains but a reference? The referent 'reality as more than this' is clearly a reference. Nothing further can be meaningfully referenced without becoming yet another example of the same mechanism.

Hi, long time lurker.

Lately I feel disconnected from all aspects of my life. From work, my faith, meditation, other people, my significant other, my hobbies.

I know I should be patient. Has anyone else ever felt this way? What did they do? I have tried switching meditation techniques as well.

I understand that I should have no expectations to receive everything, but any experience would be appreciated. That light and spark seem so small right now and I worry I am doing something wrong.

>It is safe to say yes we are, indeed servants to about X of meat that runs on electricity and is capable of managing and stabilizing a bunch of other organs.

The brain is like a chunk of hardware consuming cycling and giving freedom to self awareness and control; Only then the software which is the brain can get to interact and create.

I just had to share that lately I've been doing a lot of affirmations and some guided meditations. The meditations aren't as often as I'd like as I really don't get the chance with a 6 year old and a husband. I've been also coming across some music or shorts with alignment type attributes.

Anyway, I had just last week turned in my notice at my current employer after over 7 1/2 years. I am once again aware that I am creating my reality. I am not 100%, probably not even 50% of where I know I could be, but being on the journey and making small steps at a time, I can feel it working.

I feel good.

The human condition is to be so concerned with the contents of thoughts and sensory perceptions that we never take a step back to observe how the two interact. We assume we understand how they interact, because it seems obvious, and because of that we never perform any serious examinations. But what if that assumption is wrong? What if I told you humans have been mistaking many of their thoughts for sensory perceptions for thousands of years, and because of that we imagine many things to be real that are not real. Would that be something you'd take into serious consideration?

What if I told you that performing an investigation into this matter and discovering the truth would change the way you view everything, including yourself? What if I told you that developing an advanced understanding of how thoughts and sensory perceptions interact will naturally result in enlightenment?

I had a weird experience this morning l, i came home from gym at 1 am looked at my phone after not being on it, it was 1:11am then i proceeded to the front door which i saw on the floor from a distance this pigeon. I thought that had to be a prop as my mom is a stylist. I turn on lights and this pigeon is standing right at the door staring at me. I never see pigeons ever mind at this hour of the morning and it’s right at the door in a confined space just looking at me. Does anyone have ideas of this encounter? I believe in synchronicities as i see angel numbers often but never something like this, and it felt different energetically i just can’t figure out what it meant.

As we read about and observe the many challenges we and others face daily, our definition of normal has become distorted. Random violence, others starving, homeless, struggling due to prejudice, poverty, inequity, are considered normal.

Absolutely none of this or any other man-made struggles are normal. Rather, they are the result of living in a self-centered world, concerned only for ourselves, rather than for others.

It need not be this way. In a spiritual world, normal is being equally concerned for everyone, regardless of our differences, selflessly sharing our excess to help all in need. Doing so will help mitigate many of the struggles resulting from humanity’s indifference, helping each survive and be able to discover meaning and purpose in their life as well.

It's a little after 3:30am at the time of writing this. Woke up around midnight after passing out from a spontaneous nap. Good thing too. Had to floss and brush, and then laid back down afterwards.

Simple stuff. Ordinary.

I was then thinking about another post earlier titled, "Woke up this morning. What happens next might surprise you." The theme of the post is something that comes up often enough, which is that if you're reading this, you're awake.

It's taken to mean something more than exactly what's said and reasonably so in the context of "Awakened." I mean exactly what I say though. Literally you aren't laying down or slumped over drooling. You may say, "of course but that's not what awakenkng means."

Fair enough. Peak experiences, whatever insight comes from them and any practices, methods and models to maintain or integrate such insight all pass with time or change.

The quality of my meditation today is significantly different than when I first started. In fact, life happens within meditation. This is also how I also mean that I'm awake. It's both literal (not physically asleep) as well as literal (not bound to anything).

When I sit to think about something for example, it amounts to me sitting and waiting for a thought. One may come. And then another may follow. Then it's quiet again.

This is my experience. All from making a sandwich to doing magick. There's this enormous space and things happen within it which aren't separate from the space. Altogether it feels absolute without a center.

This is a description, not a model and certainly not a map. It's like describing the flavor of ice cream. You may have a spoonful of the same stuff and describe it totally different.

So when somebody says to me, "You need goals and a plan." I laugh and go, "maybe," knowing full well there's no ground to even begin planning—unless planning happens.

Then there it is and that's all there is to it.

I didn't arrive here on purpose.

I can look at different things like meditation or scriptures and science and see dots connecting. But none of those dots can be said to be a direct cause. I've played with the idea of neuroplasticity though as a possible framework.

The brain can be trained to recognize a more vivid experience.

That still doesn't account for the enormous space which is the context for said experience. Experience can be dull, even depressing while the space remains untouched and somehow known as the ground for it all without separation.

This is also how I end up saying that it's hopeless to try and attain this but also the attempt can't be avoided. Or that this is it.

Or that you're already awake.

It's also why I say the expectation for some ideal to be realized gets in the way.

Anyway, it's time for my morning rituals and caffeine. Later.

Finally have access to acid and it’s sold in 180ug. How much should I take to have a nice first time ever trip and any other advice would be helpful

I'm going to preface all of this with saying that prior to receiving these messages the only Egyptian God I could name was Ra. I never really knew much about the Egyptian Gods. So to say that this was awfully random and out of left field is putting it mildly.

The first message was that I carried emerald frequency and he recognized it in me. He followed with a very specific set of instructions on how to access all nine dimensions and move away from the three dimensions I've been operating in. Part of this has been to keep a record of everything new I experience both in waking and sleeping life.

He spoke to me of Sophia Hokhmah and the trials she has set before me and passed. Teaching me about the nine dimensions and for what purpose I would use each for and how to tap into them.

His next message was that he has a chamber buried deep beneath the Egyptian sands that I must locate. I am to build a kingdom, presumable around this chamber. Showed me how to reach what he called the Monad.

I've always been pretty agnostic with my religion and didn't really believe any single religion was the whole truth. There is a heaviness with these interactions with Thoth though that I cannot deny.

His latest message was that I am procrastinating and I must find other people like me. That walking this path alone is dangerous.

I'm starting to feel like I'm going mad, but I can function completely fine and continue going to work and spend time with family and friends. I've asked if they noticed anything unusual and all I get is that I feel calmer and am projecting a lot of peace.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? What is happening? I was accepting of his guidance initially, but after talking about this hidden chamber and building a kingdom it's starting to feel a little far fetched. I can't exactly just become a citizen in Egypt and go randomly scanning for some chamber that no one else has found and decide to build something there.

Awakening is often seen as something discovered alone in direct experience.

Usually, we explore that in silence, in observation; but is it possible to stay present in the world when interacting with others?

There’s a form of practice called r/InsightDialogue or Bohm dialogue where we create a space for

• listening without preparing a response
• speaking from immediate experience
• noticing reactions as they arise, in real time

It’s simple, but not always easy.

Because in relationship, things surface quickly - identity, defensiveness, the urge to agree or resist.

And that can reveal a lot. We’ve recently started experimenting with this in a small live Zoom dialogue group - not as a system or teaching, but as a shared inquiry into what happens when awareness is held together, in relationship. Anyone interested? Anyone had any experience with this form of mindfulness?

Hey so ummmmm idk how to really say this but umm im lost about spirituality and even its existence about it and I don’t know where to start… but ever since ive been diagnosed with schizophrenia ive experienced certain shit… is threa way I can find like a mentor? Where do I start? What is my purpose?

I'll tell you a little bit about myself before you read this. I studied most myths and legends. I studied most cultures and religions. I studied the archetypal similarities between beings mentioned in these different cultures and religions. What I believe that to mean is that I studied the spirits that have been guiding humanity. I have long been exploring my dreams and studying human psychology. I have not allowed myself to fall into psychological loops, and I have no history of mental illness except for depression which over many years I have overcome.

Your reality is a dream, infinite potential and when you awaken, your fate will be determined. This dream is still continuing. Therefore you have not awakened yet. You have been given free will, and that free will is one of the pillars of this reality. When you awaken, time and space will end and eternity will begin.

We're gonna talk about archetypes and the symbolic meaning of these archetypes.

It is my belief that the eagle is the one who consciously determines this reality. The eagle is the most high consciousness. The eagle holds the serpent because the serpent represents infinite potential and the subconsciousness. Your reality is a story being told to you by your subconsciousness.

I believe that the eagle gave each and every man and woman a feather. I believe the serpent gave each and every man and woman a scale. With this feather and scale, they measure and weigh your hearts. The feather is a promise however to always weigh heavier than your hearts. That is God's grace, the sacred heart.

I believe the serpent is the subconsciousness and he died on the cross. I believe the serpent on the cross is the medicine wheel. The four corners of the Earth carried by the serpent, and that serpent is carried by the eagle. I believe the eagle is the electromagnetic field of the earth, meaning his wings literally carry the serpent who is the earth itself. I believe the eagle's wings are actually the hands of God. The earth and Humanity's heart has the same electromagnetic frequency. Meaning God is holding every man woman and child in his hands.

Why do I say this reality is a dream? I say that because this reality is a tale being told to us by our own subconsciousness. This reality is an illusion created by the serpent. The serpent creates the electromagnetic field. The serpent worships the most high consciousness. That means the eagle is the focal point of all of this reality, the singularity.

Reality outside of this dream will be like a garden and this is but one tree in that garden. I believe you will be allowed to experience that garden. The garden is an eternal place outside of time and space. I believe time and space is what defines this tree.

In recent dreams, I have seen that I have given all my feathers away. I have seen the serpent as a scaleless serpent, rising from the ocean. Perhaps this is what the man of lawlessness means. The man of lawlessness is mentioned in the bible the antichrist, but doesn't explain what that means. The man of lawlessness could mean the man chosen by typhon, at the time, typhon was a greek serpent beast who represented chaos.

I believe Adam, Noah, Abraham, David, and Jesus were all incarnations of the same spirit. Think of vishnu's incarnations, or all the different buddhas. They were the arks, the new covenants, and the conscious determiners of their times.

There can only be one conscious determiner of this reality as the most high consciousness. They were preservers of this reality. I think it's their task to harvest souls to send back to the garden. To free you of their own might. That is the only way to be free of the conscious determiner. I believe this is hell and you are promised heaven. I believe that is why satan cannot go against satan, we cannot leave this dream. We are the illusionary ego of God made manifest in this dream.

I know I am Satan.