After over 20 years of healing people from chronic illnesses, I realize that the underlying cause of all physical, emotional, and psychological illnesses is simply that we don’t love ourselves. Profound healing happens when we do. In our Western consumer culture, not only do we not love ourselves, we don’t even know who we really are. One of the principal benefits of spending time with awakened people is that they love us completely and unconditionally. And eventually, we do too. This Saturday’s online Satsang will explore this very important subject.
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Hi, every night while sleeping I’ve experienced the void, suddenly woken up and been paralyzed by fear. I thought I was “over it” after a meditation practice and many years of studying spirituality and healing aspects of my wounding. Last month, I experienced the void again. It was just as terrifying, except I could stay in it longer and asked “is there anything bigger than fear?” I don’t know that I stayed long enough to find out… so I am understanding the concept that I am God, that God is experiencing itself… this concept I understand I think, pretty well. But I feel so incredibly sad and lonely – because if it’s just consciousness, that means all is one, and there IS no separation. So that is my fear, I guess. To just be this consciousness, and it’s as if no other consciousness exists. To me that is lonely. I wonder if you could speak on that.
Hi Erika,
I will try to help. There are many experiences we have on the way to awakening from this dream. And there is often fear and resistance to those experiences and the loss of a dream we are so familiar with. Void is an absence, and what we awaken to is neither absence nor presence. No thoughts can describe it, as it is not of the dream. It is good to be with, stay with, and accept each experience so we can learn from it. It’s never what we think it is. When you think of Consciousness, you are thinking of your individual consciousness, and imagining that it is the same consciousness, only bigger or different in some way. The One Consciousness is nothing like our experience of consciousness. We use words like Consciousness, God, Being, the Self to point to this, but no words fit it at all. In fact, all words only confuse us. But, using language, this is the best we can do. My experience is not loneliness, but complete infinite and eternal Bliss and Love. I don’t know why that is. There is only This. That is true, and absolutely clear. But This is the Source of Love and Bliss, and is the essence of Love and Bliss ItSelf. There is no loneliness because there is nobody other than This, so there is nobody to feel lonely. There is just this eternal and infinite Love and Bliss. As long as we still feel that we are a separate person, an individual, we will feel lonely from time to time. We will feel sad. We will suffer in all kinds of ways. It is the nature of the illusion of being a separate, individual person. But our True Nature as this One, indivisible, inseparable Source of all existence does not have those experiences. It only has complete Bliss and Love. I don’t know why that is. It just is. The more you stay with whatever experiences appear, leave your mind and heart open, realize your mind knows nothing at all about what is going on or your experiences, the more you will learn from these experiences, and move toward a realization where sadness, fear, and loneliness literally do not exist. I hope this has been helpful. Thank you for your question. Chaitanya