Enlightenment, God Realization & Maturing
There seems to be more and more interest for a combination of Enlightenment, God Realization and maturing.
Enlightenment - meaning realizing selflessness, what is realizing that everything is inherently absent of any "I". This is Big Mind waking up to its own nature, and the nondual level in Ken Wilber's framework.
God Realization - meaning the awakening and flowering of the heart. This is Big Heart awakening, with a subtle distinction of I and Other within a context of everything as God. This is what is awakened at F8 (deity mysticism) in KW's framework.
Maturing - this is the level of our human self, which can continue to heal, mature and develop before and after the two flavors of awakenings. Within the context of Big Mind/Big Heart awakening, its healing, maturing and development is part of it being increasingly finely tuned as an instrument in the world, as a vehicle in the world of form and phenomena.
In today's world, when there is so much availability to all three, why leave any one out?
And there are more and new frameworks and approaches being developed which includes these three as well.
In terms of frameworks, Ken Wilber's AQAL one is probably the most well developed right now.
In terms of approaches, the Big Mind process is a great example of one that works at all three levels from the consciousness side. And diksha is an example of one that works at all three levels from the energy side.
And of course, in just years - and certainly decades - all of these will seem very outdated. Cutely quaint. The pioneering efforts of a more inclusive approach which may be taken mostly for granted in just some decades. Who knows.
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