What is the Inner Journey of Awakening?
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You are Awakening, but has your Inner Journey reached its Destination?
Awakening
What is the Inner Journey?
The Inner Journey of Awakening is often called 'spiritual seeking'.
more...Into The Light
The word enlightenment comes from the Latin prefix 'en' meaning 'in, or into', and the word 'lux' meaning 'light', so : In The Light.
more...Are we travelling in the right direction?
We are all on our own unique Inner Journey... but to where?
more...Questions?
We each travel our own unique journey in life.
There is our 'outer' life in the world, and our 'inner' life of thoughts and feelings. But there is also another aspect - in the 'background' to both - and this may be thought of as the 'spiritual' dimension.
The Inner Journey is a process of discovering what that 'background' is - and from there, what may lie 'beyond' it.
Questions or chats can be in one-to-one discussions by text message, email or in face-to-face meetings, either online or in person. I do not charge for my time.
There is our 'outer' life in the world, and our 'inner' life of thoughts and feelings. But there is also another aspect - in the 'background' to both - and this may be thought of as the 'spiritual' dimension.
The Inner Journey is a process of discovering what that 'background' is - and from there, what may lie 'beyond' it.
Questions or chats can be in one-to-one discussions by text message, email or in face-to-face meetings, either online or in person. I do not charge for my time.
Mind and the Ego
What is Mind? What is Ego?
Peaceful Mind
The nature of the mind is constant motion - but by stepping into the background - becoming aware of mind activity - we can find freedom from the turmoil - and this is the doorway to peace.
more...An Excitable Child
Like a child opening presents, our mind jumps on every thought, then the next, and the next...
more...Thoughts and Feelings
Tools to help manage difficult thoughts and feelings.
Can we permanently escape depression?
Can we learn to overcome depression when it arises, or even permanently leave it behind?
more...Through The Clouds
To shine light on the causes of troubling thoughts and feelings, we need to rise out of the clouds - into the sun.
more...Stop Lighting Matches
We may not always be able to stop ourselves from lighting matches, but try to watch the flame and drop the match before getting burned.
more...Freedom From Suffering
Once we have had a first taste of this, we want it again. We want to experience it more often, and more deeply.
more...Choices and Decisions
Looking at the topic of choice, decision making and free will.
I Know It In My Heart
Can you let your heart guide you? Does your heart know deeper answers than the mind?
more...Wave or Ocean
The wave is a temporary expression of the ocean, dancing on the surface, below which, powerful currents move.
more...Making 'Right' Decisions
It's always a balance between head and heart. Head = 'mind' = thinking (influenced by the ego aspect of mind). Heart = 'intuition' = feelings (inclined towards selflessness and kindness).
more...Relationships
Exploring the 'spiritual dimension' to relationships.
Meant To Be Together?
Awakening in one partner and not the other creates a fundamental incompatibility in the relationship.
more...Astrology And Compatibility
Could astrology help in relationships? Wouldn't it at least be worth taking an open-minded look?
more...Meeting Mr (or Ms) Right
Every person is ‘right’, even if the initial rightness becomes wrong.
more...Who Am I?
Exploring this most profound of all spiritual question.
Presence Is The Background
In the state of presence we are not lost in the experiences of our body or the thoughts in our mind - we are 'in the background' to them.
more...Spiritual Beliefs
What is Belief? Is it helpful on the spiritual journey?
Unacceptable
You will never be able to accept anything that you perceive as unacceptable - so don't try.
more...What do we really know?
Only evidence, real evidence, should be considered a sound basis on which to accept something as true.
more...No Journey?
Some say there is no (spiritual) journey because there's nowhere to go - we are already there.
more...About
'Spiritual seeking' began for me in my early 20s, and looking back, it is easy to see the synchronistic events that led into what I now call the 'Inner Journey'.
It began as an exploration of my own inner experience and the workings of the mind, through the writings of Jung, expanding to look into the ancient eastern wisdom teachings of Lao Tzu and the Buddha. This moved on to my becoming involved in meditation, the study of karmic astrology and tantra, and a lifelong immersion into the words of most revered, respected and highly regarded of the great spiritual mystics in history.
Amidst all this, during a traumatic period in my life, Awakening began. At first a simple shift in consciousness - as if being woken from a trance - I became aware of the 'background' to the self - an unmoving 'stillness' from which I began to 'witness' the self and its stream of feelings, thoughts and perceptions - everything arising in conscious awareness. Suddenly it became clear how unconscious of my own self I had previously been!
With this new perspective, and the capacity to choose how to respond to the conditions inherent to my self, my life soon began to transform from unconscious selfishness (and the resulting conflict, stress, discontent and unhappiness), to a more harmonious inner state, better aligned with the natural flow of life.
Since those early experiences, many further realisations and mystical experiences continue to deepen one's understanding of what Awakening truly is, and little-by-little, one begins to recognise that this is the true purpose to this life - and so The Path comes into view.
John Foster
It began as an exploration of my own inner experience and the workings of the mind, through the writings of Jung, expanding to look into the ancient eastern wisdom teachings of Lao Tzu and the Buddha. This moved on to my becoming involved in meditation, the study of karmic astrology and tantra, and a lifelong immersion into the words of most revered, respected and highly regarded of the great spiritual mystics in history.
Amidst all this, during a traumatic period in my life, Awakening began. At first a simple shift in consciousness - as if being woken from a trance - I became aware of the 'background' to the self - an unmoving 'stillness' from which I began to 'witness' the self and its stream of feelings, thoughts and perceptions - everything arising in conscious awareness. Suddenly it became clear how unconscious of my own self I had previously been!
With this new perspective, and the capacity to choose how to respond to the conditions inherent to my self, my life soon began to transform from unconscious selfishness (and the resulting conflict, stress, discontent and unhappiness), to a more harmonious inner state, better aligned with the natural flow of life.
Since those early experiences, many further realisations and mystical experiences continue to deepen one's understanding of what Awakening truly is, and little-by-little, one begins to recognise that this is the true purpose to this life - and so The Path comes into view.
John Foster
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