There is a lot of talk in spiritual circles about this new age of enlightenment. More than any time in human history, we are seeing a mass evolution in human consciousness. This movement is yielding a huge influx of newly ascended masters. What the heck does spiritual awakening look like and how do you know if it’s happening to you?
The real answer is that each person’s path of transcendence is as unique as a fingerprint. No two journeys are the same. People of all races, religions and creeds are riding this fast-moving wave of energy that is accelerating both the velocity and trajectory of human consciousness.
Here are ten signs that you are, in fact, on your way to spiritual enlightenment:
1. You Hear Voices
Traditionally, hearing voices has been associated with mental illness. As more and more people are receiving support and guidance from non-physical sources, hearing voices has become ubiquitous in spiritual transcendence. Whether we perceive that voice as our own soul, an angel, an archangel, a spirit guide, an animal spirit. a god / goddess or God / the Creator, is irrelevant. The positive, uplifting, encouraging messages from “other” reassure us that everything is connected.
When you think about it, those voices make sense. If someone asks you a question, you answer. Right? Why would it be any different for spiritual entities? If you ask a question, either in prayer or in the form of a desire, Spirit will answer. Sometimes the answer takes the form of intuition and sometimes it takes the form of a verbal conversation.
Due to the miraculous nature of these communications, they can feel disorienting or frightening. But this stream of communication from non-physical entities is a universal theme for people experiencing spiritual transcendence.
Whether you perceive this insight and wisdom as coming from your own higher self / your soul or you are receiving insight from angels, spirit guides, ascended masters, etc. you are NEVER alone. If you are going through something particularly frightening, create space to meditate, journal or spend time in nature. Open and allow your heart to receive the messages that are waiting for you. The are offered in love.
2. You Experience Freaky Physical Changes
Not everyone experiences physical changes. But in honesty, it’s more common than not. Some of these changes are barely noticeable, like a change in dietary preferences. Others can be downright alarming. I have a friend who lost nearly all his hair. His skin peeled and he was bed-ridden for almost two months. But throughout the process, his spirit guides told him this was all part of shedding the heaviness of his old body in preparation for a lighter physical form.
A couple weeks ago, I woke to find my knees were completely locked. I could barely get out of my hammock. I’d been running alongside horses, racing them down the beach during sunset the previous night. But I had this odd “inner knowing” that the stiffness in my knees was more spiritual than physical.
It had been over a year since I’d felt any pain in my body. Even after long runs, strenuous mountain bike rides or a hike to 17,000 feet in Peru, I hadn’t experienced soreness after physical activity and happily assumed this was a life-long benefit of earlier spiritual work.
The locked knees were a message to “stay down”. My higher self told me this was part of a system upgrade, prompted by the run with the horses. My body was simply unable to do something my mind knew it was capable of doing. So a system upgrade was in order. I was instructed to spend the day fasting, sleeping and meditating.
Later that morning, I received an email from Sara Landon, whose channeling master’s class I’d attended. The email contained an excerpt of a channeled message she had received called “Beyond Your Wildest Dreams“.
“There’s so much more going on here than you can imagine, and there is so much happening within the physical construct of human form. You are allowing your upgrades. You are allowing a new operating system that allows you to thrive in a New Earth reality, lighter, brighter, happier, more joyful, more peaceful, more loving, more light, more light, more light.”
I was blown away when I read the message and immediately downloaded the full audio recording. In “Beyond your Wildest Dreams” Sara (channeling The Council) explained that we do not need to submit to old paradigms associated with pain, lack and limitation.
The timing of that message was incredibly reassuring. Though my higher self was telling me I didn’t destroy my knees by racing the horses, my mind has been conditioned to believe that mistakes can happen. (they can’t!)
My higher self instructed me to smile as much as possible. A twitch in my upper right lip reminded me to smile a hundred times that day! Sacred sounds came to me, and as I hummed, I could feel a quivering, buzzing type of energy in different parts of my body. At other times, I fell into a deep sleep. During these periods, my higher self said that my DNA was being adapted to this new lighter form.
In ensuing days, the ligaments in my ankles, knees, hips and shoulders felt loose. I was instructed to skip my daily beach runs and do lunges or walk backwards down the beach instead. At the jungle gym / adult playground next to the beach, I was inspired to try new flips and do exercises upside down. New playmates showed up to teach me new tricks. I even learned to climb down a ladder upside down!
Throughout the next few days, I could feel deep power coursing through my body. It was incredibly difficult not to run headlong down the beach. But each time I tried, my higher self sent a clear message to hold back. I needed time to assimilate these new changes; strengthening muscles, tendons and ligaments to support this new lighter, faster form.
Two weeks after the system upgrade, I was able to do an 8 hour trek up a volcano. We encountered rain, mud, roots, vines, rocks, steep inclines and a wickedly slippery descent. My fellow hikers – six kids in their late teens and 20’s – were stiff and sore the day after the hike. Not only did my knees perform flawlessly, I never felt post-hike fatigue or soreness. Thank you Upgrade 2.0!
Whether it’s perceived illness in the body or perceived illness on the planet in the form of a pandemic or global warming, all physical change is the result of an upgrade to the operating system. There is no such thing as an accident. Events are transpiring exactly as they are meant to transpire. Freaky physical changes are part of normal, natural upgrades to both our personal and global operating systems.
3. You Get Non-Verbal Blocks of Insight
In many cases, spiritual truths translate better as feelings or impressions rather than words. Words can’t describe the images being evoked because the wisdom is too vast or too deeply personal. Non-verbal blocks of insight are as effective as they are awe-inspiring. They leave you feeling a deep sense of reverence.
Sometimes you receive words to summarize the experience, but the non-verbal block of insight is infinitely more vast that the meager collection of words used to describe it.
Several years ago, at the very start of a vision quest / rite of passage in the desert, our group of 12 was doing introductions when I was struck by the words, “Get to your knees. You are on holy ground.” The voice was a rich, female voice. The images accompanying the words painted a much bigger picture – an image of me riveted to the earth in reverence, the many ways the earth supported me on a daily basis, the awe-inspiring power of the surrounding mountains, soil, rocks, trees and cactuses, and the role of the pachamama (earth mother) in weaving the fates of man.
I looked around to see if anyone else heard that voice. Nope. Just me. And I wasn’t about to drop to my knees in front of a group of strangers.
Then I heard the voice again. “Get to your knees. You are on holy ground.” The urge was as powerful as a strong need to go to the bathroom. Hmmm… the bathroom. I took the hint and slipped off towards the outhouse. But somehow, an outhouse didn’t seem a fitting spot for an encounter with the divine.
As I approached the literal and figurative portal, I felt a strong surge rising and made a dash for a protected space between a little family of cactuses in the desert.
This time, compliance was not optional. The words “Get to your knees,” drove my hands and knees to the ground, as if they were being drawn earthward by the world’s most powerful magnet. Energy welled up from the ground consuming me. I tried to pull my hands away, but they were quite literally riveted to the ground.
Wave after wave of sheer ecstasy, like a spiritual orgasm, coursed through my body with a message: “Whether you had the perfect mother, a terrible mother, or no mother at all is irrelevant. I am the Mother all are seeking.” This was accompanied by a vision of every aspect of the divine feminine as well as my role / relationship to the divine feminine. I remember feeling that the volume of information imparted in that moment could fill books.
In ensuing days, the same thing happened two more times, each time, accompanied by more profound insights into the relationship between man, earth, nature, sky, the cosmos and the Creator.
Prior to that experience, I’d believed myself to be an “old soul”. After that experience, I realized I was really a very, very young soul, a “blank slate” with lots of room for writing!
4. Money Appears Out of Thin Air
It’s fun to have a little extra cash, am I right? As awe-inspiring (and even scary) as the process of ascension might be, manifesting money is just pure fun. If you want to have a really good time, just ask for money to appear in random ways. For example…. “I want to get a massage, but I want (fill in the blank) to pay for it.” Then look for the fun, random way the exact amount of money shows up in connection to the person you named.
The key is to be loose and playful when manifesting money, like a kid at a playground. After all, it’s manifestation, not magic. Asking for a specific person to pay for your massage doesn’t mean that person shows up with money in hand. It’s more like a puzzle, where the massage money shows up out of nowhere, and you need to link it back to that person.
What’s the point? (other than the fun of getting a free massage!) Playfully manifesting money is evidence of spiritual awakening; trust in the Universe’s willingness to provide for your every need, wish and desire. It’s not about the money. It’s about feeling worthy of asking for it, then seeking evidence of the Universe’s love and providence.
Ask the Universe for any amount for any reason. Don’t be shy. Go big. This is the Universe we’re talking about. There is no such thing as “big” or “small” amounts. The supply is endless
Money is just another form of energy. If you doubt this, just spend a half hour researching cryptocurrencies and NFT’s. The concept of money as a store of value is totally arbitrary. It’s just another form of energy; another playmate at the playground.
5. The Right People (or Trees) Show Up at Just the Right Time
Yeah, and if that whole thing with money sounds like fun… people are even funner. Yes. I used the word funner. As a writer, I get to do that.
But back to people. Traditionally, your circle of friends doesn’t change… unless you are growing. What predicates a change in social circles is irrelevant. Sometimes it’s a career change. Sometimes it’s a move to a new location. Sometimes it’s divorce. Humans are divine. Never discount the arrival of a new human in your life. That exact person was sent to you for a reason. They have a message for you
Whether that person enters your world for a moment, a day, a week, a season or a lifetime is irrelevant. Don’t miss the message they bring. Don’t miss the blessing they have to offer. Your higher self, your soul, drew them to you for this very purpose; to deliver the answer to a question you’ve been asking. Be sure you receive the message.
It’s not just people who show up at the right time. Animals, trees, the perfect wave, a great sunrise / sunset… all these things are evidence of your worthiness, your blessedness, your divinity.
On the night of a full moon, a tree’s branches can frame the moon so it’s centered, like a perfect picture in the frame of its branches. And in that moment, you know the tree grew, from the time it was a seed, for its entire life, standing through days of sun and rain, nights under the moon and stars, through the wind and storms, just to have that very moment with you, witnessing the full moon perfectly framed in its branches. And in that moment, both you and the tree experience the full love that the Universe holds for both of you.
Those miracles are happening all around you every day. The people you meet are just like that tree. Enlightenment is the process of becoming aware of those miracles.
6. You Have Bursts of Playful Energy
Though it’s true that there are miracles all around us, there is no urgency, no weight, no heaviness associated with those miracles.Remember… we are all just kids playing at the playground. There is nothing serious going on here. All the things we treat as a big deal aren’t a big deal at all.
There is no such thing as illness; just the illusion of disease. There is no such thing as lack; just the illusion of poverty. There is no such thing as loss; just the illusion of absence. They’re all smoke and mirrors, illusions within the illusion of separation. Once you start to see beyond the veil, life becomes free, easy, playful and fun.
Heaviness is contrary to the lightness that is our natural state of being. Heaviness is evidence that we don’t feel worthy of the lightness that is our divine right. When we remember our divine origins and remember we are both worthy and capable of miracles, the heaviness disappears.
As a person experiences spiritual transcendence, they find themselves smiling for no reason. They laugh effortlessly. A playful energy replaces the heaviness.
Many times, I wake in the middle of the night filled with an abiding sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, a deep awareness of the perfection and beauty in this world. Sometimes, it’s accompanied by an a feeling of “other”, a presence just beyond the reach of my conscious mind. This feeling of “other” is vibrant and alive. I recognize its energy as the playfulness that comes out of nowhere, reminding me to smile, laugh, dance, sing, or go skinny dipping on a moonlit night.
Playfulness is our birth right!
7. You Recognize Challenging Situations and Relationships as Precious Gifts
It’s one thing to say “Everything happens for a reason.” Recognizing challenges as gifts is evidence that you believe those words; that you have faith and have integrated those five words into the very fabric of your being. Everything is indeed happening for your greater good, dear soul, because you are indeed loved and are worthy of divine love.
You know that everything you perceived as difficult, every challenging person or circumstance… even those you believed to be your life’s greatest disasters… were precious gifts, specially wrapped with great love, from the One who loves you most.You are so very, very loved that the entire Universe collaborated on your behalf to deliver those gifts to you. Those special gifts made you so much stronger, so much brighter, so much more interesting, so much more desirable, than you would have been without them. But you know that, don’t you? You know that because that knowledge was wrapped up in your transcendence as a spiritual master.
8. You Become More Tolerant of Imperfection… Including Your Own
Spiritual awakening is the process of savoring the deliciousness of imperfection, both in ourselves and others. It’s the act of savoring the life that has given rise to that imperfection, the ancestral drum that beats within our veins. We hear it. We feel it. We embody it. We dance to it. We sing to it. We howl at the moon. We claim it as your own. Then we go ahead and transcend it. We become something new.
People who are spiritually awakening tend to smile. A lot. In the process of spiritual transcendence, life happens. Sometimes the only thing we can do is smile. Or laugh, then cry, then laugh again. Or offer / receive a hug.
We didn’t show up in this world to be perfect. When we’re living boldly, when we’re living life to its fullest, we’re bound to make mistakes. That just happens when you live a life that’s legendary.
9. You Relax Into the Space Between
We came to embrace the space between the who of who we are and the who of who we are destined to become.
Spiritual awakening is the process of wanting something. Wanting it more than you’ve wanted anything in your entire life. Wanting it with every fiber of your being…. then relaxing into not having it. Spiritual transcendence isn’t about releasing desire. It’s the ability to be truly happy in that space between the wanting and the having. It’s the faith that comes from knowing that as a creator, wanting and having are flip sides of the same coin.
10. You Think It’s All In Your Head.
Conventional wisdom (and modern psychology) causes us to question our own transcendence. Most people who experience these spiritual shifts go through a period where they believe it’s all in their heads. They doubt their worthiness. These doubts are based on the erroneous assumption that in order to be worthy, someone else is not worthy. In truth, all are worthy. And no, it’s not in your head!
Spiritual awaking is a journey, not a destination. We are all works in progress.
You are the being of divine light. You have the truth within you and you don’t need anyone to give you permission or confirm / deny your path to transcendence. You are a living master and your awakening matters. Some truths are yours and yours alone. Embody those truths. Claim them. Own them. Then share them.
There is great love for you here. Thank you for sharing this journey with me.
