Three Streams of the Awakening Process **
Three streams of the awakening process, as it appears to me now.
Deepening familiarity
The main three are...
(a) Deepening familiarity with ourselves as a human being. (b) Deepening familiarity with ourselves as Big Mind. (c) Deepening familiarity with the interaction between the two.
[Human being]
From this perspective, we see that the awakening does not start with an awakening as Big Mind. It is continuous - including our conception and birth as a human being, and an exploration of ourselves as a human being in childhood and throughout life.
This exploration process includes (i) how to be effective in the world, how to orient and function in the world. (ii) Maturing along the various lines of development, such as cognitive, emotional, interpersonal and so on. (iii) Healing from wounds, developing coping strategies and so on. (iv) Integration of all we are as a human being, at any time.
[Big Mind]
Our familiarity with ourselves as Big Mind is also a continuous process. It can start with a glimpse, then a process of clarification and deepening, and integration with our human self.
This deepening familiarity tends to trigger a deeper healing and integration at our human self as well. Areas that were in the dark now float to the surface to be brought into awareness.
[Integration]
The integration and fluidity among ourselves as a human self and Big Mind is similarly a continuous process. We find a deepening familiarity as either, and with the fluidity between the two. While we at first may identify more with one or the other, we now deepen into a freedom from any fixed identity. We become more fully human, and more fully Big Mind living as and through this particular human being.