One Soul, One Love, One Heart by John E. Welshons

Author:John E. Welshons
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781577315889
Publisher: New World Library

Moments of Awakening to Soul

There are as many ways to come to recognize our soul as there are individual souls. Jill Bolte Taylor, in her fascinating book My Stroke of Insight, describes the extraordinary mystical awakening brought on by having a brain hemorrhage, a stroke. A dear friend of mine spontaneously awakened into the Light at the moment his neck was broken. Another friend tells of a spontaneous awakening after years of suffering in an abusive marriage. An elderly woman came to me a number of years ago in a very open, expansive state following the deaths of her beloved husband and her sister.

The great Indian spiritual master Ramana Maharshi had his awakening at the age of seventeen when he was suddenly overcome with a violent fear of death. He realized that no matter what he did, there was no way to avoid death; it might take seventy years, but eventually he was going to die. He resolved to explore the implications of his mortality right away. Almost instantaneously, he achieved a state of unbroken communion with God. In essence, his awakening came through what, in psychological terms, we would call an “anxiety attack.”

Astronauts like Edgar Mitchell have experienced transcendent awakenings while in outer space, through the dramatic shift in perception brought on by viewing our planet from a distance: by seeing how small, fragile, and insignificant it appears among the countless celestial orbs floating in orderly patterns in vast, infinite space.

In my early teenage years, I had hints of spiritual awakening on warm summer evenings when I was mysteriously drawn to lie down on my back in the dewy grass of our front lawn and gaze up at the nighttime sky — at the incomprehensible number of planets and stars, at the billions of celestial orbs floating trillions of miles away in vast space. The inability to intellectually comprehend an infinite universe would catapult me into a state of awe and wonder — beyond thought. While my parents drank themselves into oblivion inside our home just thirty or forty feet away, I was gently reassured by the beginninglessness, endlessness, and magnificence of the infinite nighttime sky. Something about its timeless orderliness and absence of boundaries suggested with gentle power that everything was okay.

Later, a more potent awakening came at the culmination of a long period of depression, many months into the process of psychoanalysis. Through analysis, I was forced to acknowledge the many levels of the mind and the motivating psychological forces that remain hidden to us until some precipitating event causes them to rise to the surface. Lying in bed one night, I had an experience in which all of the fears, neuroses, and resentments I carried within my mind were staring me straight in the face.

The confrontation was agonizing and terrifying. As the intensity of swirling, pulsating fear built to a crescendo, a voice inside me said, “Well, I guess I’m going to lose my mind.”

And then I did. And all that remained was Light.

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