Mary Mueller Shutan - The Spiritual Awakening Guide: Kundalini, Psychic Abilities, and the Conditioned Layers of Reality

Kundalini, Psychic Abilities, and the
Conditioned Layers of Reality

Kundalini, Psychic Abilities, and the
Conditioned Layers of Reality

Mary Mueller Shutan

Mary Mueller Shutan, 2015

The right of Mary Mueller Shutan to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

Published in 2015 by Findhorn Press, Scotland

ISBN 978-1-84409-671-8

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Edited by Patricia Kot

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Contents

DEDICATION

To my family, my pets, my readers and editors, my teachers and mentors
and to anyone who is ready and willing to look beyond illusion.

Introduction

I t is a strange world we live in. Most of us live life in an unconscious manner and in a relatively disassociated state. We look to the future and to the past and feel discomfort and a sense of disconnect to the present. In this state of slumber and disconnect, we allow for things that are not of vital importance to overwhelm and cloud our lives. Shopping, television, drugs, alcohol, gossip, technology, and other pursuits allow us to remain anesthetized, disassociated, and asleep. We have cluttered our existences with things and experiences that lack importance. We let the external cloud us until we no longer understand what we are thinking or what we are doing with our lives. Many of us no longer have a place for ourselves in our very own lives. At some level, even for the most unconscious and disembodied of us, we recognize that our lives are not workingthat we have somehow gotten away from the things that we are here to do and what is of vital importance to our very souls. We have the rare glimpse or memory of who we are and who we are meant to be, and it is devastating because it is so far from what we have become.

In this unconscious state it is all about getting byworking at jobs that are draining, hated, or do not suit our unique talents; relationships that we have grown out of; and to-do lists that have us focus on what we have yet to get done. We focus on the past and the future without consideration of the present. It is considered normal to lose the passion and imagination of our youth. It is considered normal to sleepwalk through life, struggling to get by, and to be deeply unhappy with what has happened to our lives.

But what would happen if we were to wake up from our collective slumber, to understand not only the patterns that drive us but also the patterns that create our realities? Remembering and becoming who we truly are is life changing. Breaking free from the unconscious personal, family, and collective patterns of society is revolutionary. And for many of us, this process of awakening, remembering, and breaking free has begun.

When I began undergoing a spiritual awakening it was a difficult experience. I did not understand what I was seeing and feeling, and there was little source material out there to understand the process. I began to realize the difficulties and struggle of being on a spiritual path. At the same time I began experiencing ever-widening glimpses of peace, harmony, joy, flow, and guidance to remember and become who I truly am meant to be in this world. Most literature on spiritual awakening is aspirational, focused ultimately on feel-good, ego-based, self-help sort of material. This literature has a place in society but it ultimately strays from the difficulties of this path and clear, pragmatic, and concise directions for modern-day living while undergoing an awakening. Simply put, there are countless books out there for people who aspire to become awakened, but few resources are out there for those of us who are already experiencing awakenings. Ultimately, I have created what I was lacking in my own awakening processdetails of the process, types of awakenings, difficulties and joys, and how to work through an awakening while still remaining a part of modern society.

Part 1 goes through each of the twelve layers of conditioned reality that cover an awakened state. These layers of conditioned realityeverything from our own trauma and abuse to past lives, ancestral issues, and more global or cosmic forcescan be navigated with the tools and understandings provided in this book. Everything from the first steps of being on a spiritual path to awakening and post-awakening states are discussed with clarity and pragmatic, real-world advice. Part 2 goes over gradual and milder forms of spiritual awakening. Part 3 gets into the more difficult and sudden types of awakenings. These sudden awakenings are where we find ourselves in a spiritual process that completely revolutionizes our existence, creating significant issues in functioning and drastic changes in our mind, body, and spirit within a short period of time. Part 4 goes through some of the more common experiences during the awakening process.

The intent of this book is not about one singular journey. It is about the paththe hardships, joys, fears, and depths of emotion and feeling that come with being awake, free, and truly alive in a world that is not. Going through the awakening process for all its difficulties is something to be cherished, but it is also something that needs to be properly understood in order to work with and be present during. I have written this book in an effort to detail the process of awakening in modern societya world that no longer understands and cannot relate to texts and experiences from hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago. I do not have a religion to sell you. I am not a guru. But I hope that you find yourself within these pages and know that you are not alone, that your experiences are similar to those who have gone through spiritual awakenings for thousands of years.

Although there is something of a divide in the definition of what being awake truly means from a variety of spiritual traditions, there are commonalities in the journey of awakening. Once awakened, the meaning of our awakened state is ours and ours alone. Once truly in contact with the divine, and with the divinity within us, the questions cease, and our path expands into having no path at all. But until then we need teachers, literature, and others who have walked this path to show us how to navigate it. I am in full realization in creating this book that every experience described will not be exactly the same and that even similar paths vary wildly. This book is not a step-by-step manual or a checklist for you to go through. Rather, it is a resource to help you understand your experiences, to help you work with your spiritual path, and to get you to develop your own resources and understandings of your own, unique path to awakening.