Common experiences

You may be wondering, 'how do I know if I'm in spiritual emergence?' There's a wide range of experineces that can occur during spiritual emergence and transformation, orienting around some common themes. Identifying them might help you figure out what is happening, and/or put words to what is happening.

Spiritual emergence often begins with an experience of some sort - call it a mystical experience, an altered state of consciousness, kundalini awakening, our of body experience, near death experience, or satori. Awareness opens to a deeper state than usually known. This can be blissful, a total revelation, disorienting, or fear-inducing depending on how you relate to it.

You feel spaced out, dizzy, unfocused, unable to get anything together. You are literally 'floating.' Grounding is needed. Physical sensations may accompany your experience - rushes of energy (called kundalini), energy pouring in your head, involuntary movements (called kriyas), tickling sensations under the skin, heat or pressure in the body, undiagnosable pain where energy builds up.

You may well feel very sensitive to everything around you - vibrations, electro-magnetic fields, other's emotions, TV, synthetic clothing, food - you name it! At it's peak, life can feel all but unbearable.

New abilities may open up - psychic abilities such as clairvoyance, telepathy, seeing auras, ability to heal, deja vu, and a much more loving, compassionat heart. These are wonderful gifts, but nonetheless need adjusting to.

As you become sensitive to more subtle realms and energies, you may become increasingly aware of psychic entities, negative spirits, and the global mind (i.e. you can 'feel' what is going on around the world without having to read a newspaper to know what is going on.)

Many people become aware of their guides and other spirit-teachers. It takes time - seeing how things pan out - to know which beings are worth listening to, to discern where good advice comes from. Just because a being is not incarnated doesn't make it necessarily wise.