Are you experiencing spiritual awakening symptoms and not sure whether to call a doctor or a mystic? You're waking up at 3am. Crying at commercials. Suddenly intolerant of small talk, the career you've had for a decade, and basically every version of yourself you built before now.
These are some of the most common spiritual awakening signs, and here's what's striking: they've been documented across thousands of years, across cultures and traditions that have no historical reason to agree with each other. Sufi mysticism, Kundalini yoga, Christian mystical texts, shamanic practice, Jungian psychology, and modern somatic therapy are all pointing at the same map. That kind of cross-cultural consistency isn't a coincidence. It's a signal.
In this episode, Will breaks down what's actually happening during spiritual growth, why it can feel indistinguishable from a breakdown, and what to do when the floor drops out.
In this episode:
- Why waking up between 2 and 4am is one of the most widely reported spiritual awakening symptoms across traditions
- The real reason you're crying for no reason. it's not a breakdown, it's a release
- What heightened sensitivity actually is, and why the world gets louder before it gets clearer
- Why loss of interest in your old life is one of the most misunderstood spiritual awakening signs
- Jung's concept of individuation, and why it explains the "hollow career" feeling better than burnout does
- The hunger for truth that activates during spiritual growth, and why it doesn't turn off once it starts
- Four practical, tradition-backed things you can do right now when it all feels like too much
You are not crazy. And you are in excellent, ancient company.
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You wake up at three am, wide awake for no reason.
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You start crying at a dog food commercial, not even
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a sad one, and suddenly every single belief that you've
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held about yourself, the world, and reality feels like a
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costume you've been wearing. It doesn't fit anymore. Congratulations, you
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might be spiritually awakening, or you need a nap and
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a therapist. Honestly, maybe you need both. Heyther I'm will.
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Welcome to the Skeptic Phisicians, the podcast where we take
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the weird, the woo and the genuinely unexplainable and we
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hold it up to the light, not to tear it apart,
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just to actually look at it, because if it's real,
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well they can survive questioning right, today's episode kickoff line,
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and I stand by this one. Spiritual awakening is the
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Universe's way of saying, hey, you sit down, we need
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to talk. We're going over the most common spiritual awakening
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symptoms and why most people never survive their spiritual awakening,
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at least never survive it as the same person they
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started it as. So let's talk about spiritual awakening symptoms.
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Because here's what nobody tells you when you start getting
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into this stuff. Nobody warns you. Nobody warns you. You
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read about consciousness expansion, and you think, oh, I'm gonna
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get more enlightened. Maybe I'll meditate a little more, maybe
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I'll buy some grizzles, all very reasonable expectations. But what
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nobody tells you, though, is that you might also lose
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your appetite for three days, develop a sudden and overwhelming
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need to be alone in nature, cry for reasons you
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can't explain, and feel in your bones that the job
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that you've had for twelve years is killing your soul.
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And that's just on a Tuesday. And the really fun
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part is you go to Google. You type in why
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am I suddenly sensitive to everything? And nothing makes sense anymore?
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And Google gives you three options clinical depression, spiritual awakening,
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or too much caffeine. And I mean, it could genuinely
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be any of those three, or it could be all
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three simultaneously. That's the fun part. But here's the thing
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we want to actually sit with today, because this is
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real and it really matters. The Symptoms of a genuine
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spiritual awakening. They've been documented across cultures, across centuries, across
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traditions that have zero overlap otherwise, and they're remarkably consistent,
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which is actually one of the more striking things about
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all of this. These were just made up. If there
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were just a Western wellness trend, you wouldn't find the
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same map showing up in Sufi mysticism, Kundalini yoga traditions,
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Christian mystical texts, even indigenous shamanic practices. Same symptoms, different languages,
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different centuries. We're talking about things like heightened sensory sensitivity,
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a sudden inability to tolerate superficial conversation, a strong pull
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towards solitude, disrupted sleep, often waking up between two and
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four in the morning, which some traditions call the hour
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of the soul. A growing awareness that your old identity,
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the personality that you built and perform for everyone around you,
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no longer feels like you. And that last one is
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the one that tends to shake people the most because
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it doesn't feel like growth at first. It feels like loss.
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It feels like something's breaking. And here's what we always
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come back to on this show. Sometimes the breaking is
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exactly the point, not because suffering is required, but because
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some of what's breaking needs to break. Some of the
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structures that we built around ourselves, the identities, the beliefs,
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the story of who we are and what we're here for.
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They're actually the scaffolding. They're not the building, and awakening
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is what happens when that scaffolding starts to come down,
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whether you're ready for it or not. So, if you're
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in it right now, if some part of this list
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sounds uncomfortably familiar, you are not alone, you're not broken,
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and you're definitely not crazy. Well maybe a little, but
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in the best possible way. Okay, so let's actually do
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the thing we promised. The breakdown the most commonly reported
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spiritual awakening symptoms, where they show up across traditions, and
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what you can actually do when you're in the middle
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of one. I'm not ranking these because awakening it doesn't
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have a checklist. Some people experience three of these intensities,
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some people experience all of them all at once, some
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people experience them over years. This is a map, not
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a test. So let's go first one and honestly, the
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one that sends more people down that spiritual rabbit hole
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than anything else that I've come across, the three am
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wake up call. You just pop awake, completely alert for
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no obvious reason, night after night. In traditional Chinese medicine,
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the hours between three and five in the morning correspond
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to the lung meridian, which governs grief release and the
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process of letting go. In Christian mystical tradition, the vigil
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hour was considered a time when the veil between the
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physical and the divine was the thinnest. Sufi's built entire
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prayer practices around this window, and in almost every shamanic
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tradition across continents, nighttime, specifically early morning darkness, is when
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spiritual communication was most accessible. So when you're lying there
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at three seventeen in the morning wondering why your brain
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is decided sleep is optional, One framework says something in
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you is trying to get your attention, something wants to
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be heard. That the noise of the day is drowning
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out doesn't mean something is wrong. It actually might mean
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something's waking up. Right. Second, symptoms of emotional surge is
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like crying for no reason, right, the unexpected, the sudden,
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overwhelming waves of something, grief that you can't name, joy
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that makes no contextual sense, anger at nothing in particular.
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This one's really important to understand because it can be
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genuinely alarming if you don't know what's happening. See, the
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spiritual framing across traditions is consistent. When the psyche begins
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to open, what comes up first is what was being
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held down, the most old grief, old fear, old rage
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that was stored somewhere in the body, never fully processed.
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The Kundalini tradition talks about this specifically, the idea that
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is energy moves up through the chakra system, it passes
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through and releases what's stored in each energy center. Western
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somatic therapy completely independently arrived at essentially the same conclusion.
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And I know about the butcher, this poor man's name,
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so if you know him, please apologize on my behalf.
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But there's a man named Besel van der Koch. I
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told you anyway his work on trauma storage on the body.
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not just the mind, and when something catalyzes a release,
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it comes out as emotion even when there's no clear
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narrative attached. That was Western somatic therapy. So if you're
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crying in a car for reasons, that you can't explain.
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You're not losing it. Your system might be processing something
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has been holding on to for a very long time,
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so let it seriously. Don't perform your way through it.
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Just feel it, let it move through you, and then
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release it. By symptom number three, this is a big
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one and it comes in layers. Imagine suddenly you're in
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a crowd and you feel like the crowd is overwhelming
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in a way that it never did before. Certain foods
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don't sit right anymore. You can feel the energy of
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a room when you walk in. Other people's emotional states
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feel almost physically present to you. And this one can
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make you feel like you're going crazy because the world
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hasn't changed. You have. And what's actually happening here across
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multiple frameworks is that the perceptual filters that you have
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been running are getting thinner. See most of us walk
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around with this very efficient perceptual filter. They screen out
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most of the information our nervous system is actually picking up.
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Most of us walk around with very efficient perceptual filters.
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They screen out most of the information that our nervous
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system is actually picking up, because otherwise we be overwhelmed
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every second of every day. An awakening process in many
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traditions is described as a loosening of those filters molreways
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getting through, which is expansive and also genuinely uncomfortable, especially
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in the early stages when you're not really sure what's happening.
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The mystics called it the dark night of the senses.
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John of the Crawl wrote about it in the sixteenth century.
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The Sufi concept of fanna, the solution of the ego,
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describes the same initial phase as deeply disorienting. The Zen
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tradition has a concept machio for the strange visions and
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sensory experiences that arise in intensive meditation practices. Different traditions,
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same experience. The perceptual world that gets louder before it
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gets clearer. All right, Number four. This one is the
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one that tends to cause the most external friction, because
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it's not just internal. It actually affects relationships, It affects careers,
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It affects social circles. The things you used to love
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doing suddenly feel hollow. Friends that you have had for
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years start to feel like well speaking the language that
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you're slowly forgetting. The career that used to feel super meaningful,
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You well, now it feels like you're wearing a costume.
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The weekend routines, the hobbies, the go to ways of
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numbing or distracting yourself. They stop working, and from the
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outside that can look like depression or an identity crisis,
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or you know someone's going through something and look, sometimes
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it is depression. I don't want to play that down.
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I'm not here to tell you to skip a therapist.
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Oh my god, please don't skip a therapist. Go to
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a therapist. But the distinction that many traditions point to
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is this depression typically comes with a loss of meaning everywhere.
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This kind of awakening dissonance tends to be more specific.
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The old structures feel hollow, but something else, some new orientation,
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seems to be pulling you toward it, even if you
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can't fully name it yet, like there's something there that
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you're supposed to do or are being called to do.
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Carl Jung described this as the first half of life
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being about building the ego, building the identity, the career,
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the relationships, the social role, the second half of life
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being about questioning whether the structure you built actually fits
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your soul. He called it individuation, the long process of
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becoming who you actually are underneath everything that you were
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told to be. And boy, aren't we told to be
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a lot these days anyway, Moving on to Symtom five,
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this is probably the most consistent threat across every single tradition,
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the seeking, the hunger. You suddenly can't stop reading, researching,
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asking questions things you never thought about before, like consciousness
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with the nature of reality, like what happens when we die?
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What are we actually doing here? It all becomes urgent,
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not academic, urgent, personal like answers that you need not
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just find interesting, you need them, but the interesting thing
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is actually Across traditions, this isn't described as the awakening,
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it's described as the beginning of the path. The hunger
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is the signal, not the destination. Buddhism calls it Bodhisita,
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the awakening mind, the first arising of the genuine desire
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to understand the nature of existence, not for intellectual satisfaction,
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but because something in you knows it matters beyond what
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you can currently articulate. And once that hunger activates, it
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tends not to turn off, which is honestly probably why
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you're listening to this podcast. Okay, so you have identified
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at least three of those, and you're currently sitting in
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your car in a parking lot because you need a minute.
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First of all, completely valid. Second of all, here's what
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the traditions actually recommend. And I'm gonna say this really
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as clearly as I can. This is not medical advice.
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If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please reach
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out to a professional. What we are talking about today
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is a spiritual and experiential dimension which can run alongside,
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not instead of professional support. Having said that, what do
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you do after you seek professional help? One stop trying
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to speed it up or slow it down. The single
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most common mistake that people make in an awakening process
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is trying to manage it, either chasing more experiences because
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it feels significant or white knuckling the discomfort because it's
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too much. They both tend well. They both tend to
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make it harder, not easier. The dowdaate Chin has a
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phrase for this, wo weigh non forcing, allowing the process
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to move at the pace that it needs to move.
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You don't rush a seed. You don't hold a seed
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underwater and demand it become a tree faster. Right. You
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create good conditions and you get out of the way.
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That is what you need to do here right. Number Two,
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get into your body. Now this sounds counterintuitive when you're
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having experiences that feel profoundly non physical, but almost every
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tradition recommends embodiment practices during an active awakening phase. Get
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out there and walk, move, breathe deliberately, be in nature.
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The energy needs to go somewhere. A body that's grounded,
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that is physically present and engaged processes it better, way
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better than the body that is sedentary and disassociating, and
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the dissociation is re during awakening processes. Believe me, the
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line between expanded awareness and disconnection from reality can get
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really blurry. Physical embodiment that is your anchor, my friend.
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That is so important. Three. Find your people, not to
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tell them what's happening if you're not ready, but to
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be around other humans who are asking the same questions.
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Isolation accelerates the disorientation. Community, even imperfect community, even a
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podcast you listen to on your commute. It creates context.
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You are not the only person who has ever felt
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exactly this way, I mean, not even close. The traditions
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are full of accounts going back thousands of years that
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read like they were written by someone who is sitting
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in the same parking lot that you're sitting in right now.
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And that matters because one of the most destabilizing things
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about an awakening experience is the sense that nobody else
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could possibly understand. Trust me, that sense is wrong. The
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language might differ, but the experience is remarkably shared. So
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get into community. Reach out, say hello, say hey, I
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