Awakening Through the Veils: A Seeker's Guide

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-7392-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-7394-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-7393-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013908139

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/01/2013

Contents

Introduction

I.   THE NATURE OF AWAKENING

Chapter 1:   ABC’S OF AWAKENING

What do we mean by Awakening?

Generics vs. Specifics

Basic Awakening & the ‘Core Veil’

Coming Out of Trance

The Ego’s Conundrum

Chapter 2:   THE FANTASY & THE REALITY

Themes and Expectations

The End of All Suffering

Coming Home to True Self

Ascension

The End of All Desire

Coming into Truth and Clarity

Complete Understanding

Permanent Bliss-Consciousness

Merging with the Divine

Being Done With Your Karma

Whatever I Get From Awakening Will Be Wonderful

I Want to be Free

Is this Product for You?

Chapter 3:   AWAKENING’S MAGICAL MOMENT

My Magical Moment

Other Magical Moments

Chapter 4:   AWAKENING’S AFTERMATH,

Part 1: Confusion

My Own Confusion

The Split

Who Am I?

More Personal Confusion

Other Kinds of Possible Confusion

Loss of Motivation

Confusion in Relationship

Confusion With Your Ever-Present Companion

The End of Confusion

Chapter 5:   AWAKENING’S AFTERMATH,

Part 2: What Happened to my Awakening?

Now You See It, Now You Don’t

Struggle

Settling Down

Chapter 6:   THE MAP FROM ABOVE: Divinity has an Emanation

I. Entering the Map

Divinity

Emanation of Awareness/Being/Light/Love

The Creation of Consciousness

The Original Duality & the Original Veil

The Arising of Itself-Awareness & 0-Self

II. The Journey Into Separateness & Self

Original Separation & the Veil of Separation

The Veil of Self and the Arising of Universal Ego / Self

III. The Journey into Individual Ego

The Veil of Individual Self & the Arising of Individual Ego

The Universal Veil

Inner Veils & Souls

The Core Veil & the Incarnational Personality

The I-Tree as an Awakening Tree

Chapter 7:   MAKING THE JOURNEY

Free Will

Divine Intention

Avatars

Karma

Many Paths

What Kind of Teacher

What Kind of Student

Teachings and the Truth

Dealing with Issues

Divine Leelas

Awakening is Local

Expanding Consciousness

II.   THE JOURNEY INTO AWAKENING

Chapter 8:   THE MAP FROM BELOW: THE JOURNEY

Here is Where I Am

Getting Ripe Enough

Karma Knots

Losing the Last Karma Knot as 4th Energetic/Consciousness Movement

Releasing Karma Knots

Ripening to the 14th

The 14th E/C Movement

Chapter 9:   MANIFESTING BASIC AWAKENING

Seven Approaches for Knocking at the Door

Who Wakes Up

Invisible Awakenings

Almost But Not Quite

The Spot of Divinity in the Heart

Chapter 10:   GOING FORWARD

How To Prevent Your Awakening From

Moving Into The Background

Growing into the Awakening

Meditations for Living from Awakening

Purification

Energetic Development

Expressions of the Core Veil

Chapter 11:   AWAKENING TO BEING CONSCIOUSNESS

The Nature of Awakening to Being Consciousness

Liberation from Personal Drama

All is Consciousness

The Apparent End of the Road

Emptiness and Stillness

Other Experiences

Manifesting the Awakening to Being Consciousness

Living From the Awakening

Meditations to Access Awake Space

Meditations Starting from Awake Space

Working with Issues from Awake Space

Reminder

Chapter 12:   THE 8th DIMENSIONAL PARTY

Awakening to Being Awareness

The Inner Veil

The Soul

The Core Me Veil

Meditations to Access Awake Space

Meditations Starting from Awake Space

Working with Issues from Awake Space

Watching Out for What You Become:

Chapter 13:   FURTHER AWAKENING MOVEMENTS

Awakening To the 9th & 10th Dimensions

Awakening to Being-IS

Awakening the Universal Veil

Awakening the Bodymind

Awakening the I-point

Awakening the Veil of Self

Awakening the Veil of Separation

Awakening the Original Veil & the Original Duality

Chapter 14:   AWAKENING TO DIVINITY

A Taste

Manifesting Awakening to Divinity

Perspective

III.   EVERYWHERE YOU ARE

Looking Back

Appendix: Dimensions

About the Author

Dedicated to

Neem Karoli Baba, for carrying me through

the darkness and calling me Home,

Papaji, for stopping my world,

Merlin, for all the amazing gifts & blessings,

& Amma, for being my mother

and the mother of the world.

Acknowledgements

This book has grown out of my life, out of both the bright and dark places, and so there is a piece of everyone who has ever impacted my life in it. I would like to acknowledge them all, with special thanks to:

Anthony Gorman and Lorraine Goldbloom, for their friendship and support on this marvelous path, with an extra nod to Lorraine for her continual feedback on each section of this book as it was being created and her dedication to making it the best book it can be.

Hilary Stillman, for her enthusiasm and wonderful editing support.

The VortexHealing® community of teachers and students, for the gift of a loving international village and the sharing that goes on within it.

Susanne, my wife, for walking this path with me, for pushing me to go to places I would never go, for her love, for her insights, and for the thousands of delicious dinners she has cooked for me over the years.

A Note from the Editor

Traditionally, awakening was a rare and slow phenomenon. A typical seeker was a monk, or disciple. Sitting in the presence of a teacher, attuning to their frequency while meditating on discourses about the nature of reality, a devoted seeker had some chance of reaching a different level of freedom before death. Humanity is evolving. Living a life that includes work and family with a core of devotion to the Divine is becoming a new paradigm. But the methods of awakening have not changed much, even with greater access to awakened teachers. Today’s popular teachers give a perspective about awakening, but do not explain how it happens in a human system, nor do they offer possible ways to speed up the process. People are ripe for awakening, but there is no real step-by-step guide on how to be more aware of the process or complete it.

Ric Weinman offers a unique perspective on the awakening process by mapping each phase that he went through on his own path. This is a wholly new approach that not only describes the process in a detailed way but also enables you to work on that process within yourself, one step at a time. Ric is able to pull students’ awareness into the exact point where a veil of separation sits in their consciousness, so awareness can touch it and release it, generating awakening at that level. The magic here is that this singular and unparalleled ability actually comes through in his book, by simply reading and working with it. This is the real deal.

I have been deeply involved in various awakening paths and I have experienced firsthand what Ric has mapped. What he is offering is a radically different, cutting edge approach to awakening that systematically allows us to see these veils of separation and wake up out of them. As this happened in my own process, I began to experience a new depth of freedom, and a freedom from issues and the suffering that comes from my attachment to them. Prior to meeting Ric, I worked for many years in the traditional way, and there were changes in my life and being. Yet, I was on automatic pilot in certain situations, when knee-jerk emotional reactions kicked in, overriding my carefully cultivated inner peace. It turned out that was just ego desperately trying to achieve a state of being that was based on an idea of how to be. A true shift occurred only after studying VortexHealing® with Ric. He was a guide through an incredible journey, returning me home to Divinity. A lasting freedom is present now, which I see in my classmates as well. There is an inner spaciousness and peace of the heart that is truly glorious and full of Grace.

Hilary Stillman

April 2013

Ah…

Just this.

No fingers pointing.

Introduction

The world of awakening is a microcosm of the world at large: full of hopes, desires, fantasies, misconceptions, misunderstandings, projections, attachments, and disappoint-ments. Yet it also contains spaces of great peace and beingness, openness and love. Like the world at large, it is ruled by both karma and Grace, even though it may often appear as if Grace has taken on the more secondary role.

This book presents an extensive Map of the landscape of awakening as well as a how-to guide for both awakening and deepening into awakening, given as concrete steps, starting from wherever you are now. This Map, which I call the I-Tree, describes the creation and evolution of ego, from Divinity to the human sense of self, level by level. Then it becomes an Awakening Map, since each new level of ego-creation becomes a level of trance from which awareness must awaken to realize its true nature.

Awakening starts with this conundrum: we know that all is one, and yet we experience ourselves as a particular, separate part of that oneness. We also know that this separate sense of self or I, which is our ego, is found at the root of all of our issues and all of our suffering, which also impacts our energy system and our health. So, whether we want to address our suffering or ill-health, or we simply want to reach a deeper state of being and oneness, we eventually have to confront the very thing we take for granted as the foundational piece of our existence: our sense of being a separate self. This is the fundamental principle of awakening, and it tells us that this sense of personal ego is not a given but simply the experience we are having—as if we were locked into a very deep trance—and that we can awaken from that into a much freer existence.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of confusion around this process, which will be addressed in the first part of this book. This confusion is amplified by the fact that, contrary to some notions, awakening isn’t some final event that turns a living human being into some kind of finished and static reality. Although awakening does happen in a moment and does mark the end of a particular level of ego-existence, that initial awakening is just the beginning of a new process, a new journey of awakening, which will have many levels and phases. Because these levels and phases are not much written about, they are also not well understood. When writers share their experiences, they often use the same general terms to mean very different things. Many authors write about whatever their present experience is but not the process that got them there. In addition, even when people are in the same phase of awakening, their processes are unique, and so their experiences—and what they communicate to others—can vary quite widely. All of this can create quite a bit of confusion, both for those who have awakened and for those who haven’t.

For those who haven’t awakened, the core confusion arises from not knowing what awakening really is, as well as not knowing what may effectively get them there from where they are now.

For those who have awakened, the main source of confusion comes from not understanding what has actually happened to them, since invariably it will not match their expectations, whether they have read about awakening beforehand or not. This is not surprising, for awakening creates a sudden and fundamental change, and what changes is not some aspect of your mind or emotions, but you yourself, your core experience of who you are. One cannot really know in advance what that will be like. Your life goes on, but now it is suddenly different. There is a sense of something missing. Something familiar in the fabric of your life has disappeared, and a particular quality of emptiness sets in, accompanied by a new sense of freedom. You may still cling to what was, to the experience of yourself in the life you had before, but that part of your life is over and a new phase has begun. Yet as you go forward, most aspects of your life continue unchanged, because the basic patterns of the life you had created haven’t gone anywhere, and you can’t help but carry your old emotional and mental patterns with you. If you were married and have children, you are still married and have children. You still have to go to work in the morning and/or get the kids to school. You still have the same body issues, you still prefer the same foods, and if you were an introvert you are still an introvert. Yet the single thing that awakening has changed makes all of what hasn’t changed—all of what you can name and point to in your life—seem completely different because your relationship to all of it has changed.

This is the bizarre paradox of awakening: everything completely changes and yet everything remains the same. The varied textures of life go on, yet with a new emptiness and a new freedom. There is now a space in the place where a familiar sense of self used to be, and yet for most people, in spite of the sense of loss of the familiar, that space will typically be experienced as spaciousness. For most people, this generates enormous confusion—about what has happened, about who it has happened to, and about how to live from this new place.

The intent of this book is to provide a broad understanding of the nature of awakening. If you haven’t yet awakened, it will guide you towards an actual awakening, showing you how to make yourself ‘ripe’ for it. If you have already awakened, the book will help orient you as to where you are and what is happening to you, as well as provide some information as to how to move from one phase of awakening to another. This book aims to be a guided tour of the awakening process, mapping the spiritual journey as you move forward from wherever you are right now.

The book is divided into two main sections. The first section covers more of the general information about awakening: the nature of awakening vs. our expectations, what happens in its aftermath, working with teachers, the different kinds of karma, etc., and an overview of the Map of awakening being presented in this book. The second section is the how-to. It is a guide for how to get ripe for awakening, how to move into awakening, and what is needed to move into each subsequent level. If you read something in the first section for which you would like more details, you may find what you are looking for in the relevant chapter of the second section. Although you can read through the whole of the second section just to get an overview of the information in it, actually creating the awakening movements it describes will take quite some time.

The book starts with the ABC’s of awakening, which is a general introduction to the concepts and language the book will be using. This gives us a common framework to work from, so as we get more in depth, what I am communicating will remain clear.

I

THE NATURE OF AWAKENING

Chapter 1

ABC’S OF AWAKENING

What do we mean by Awakening?

We have to be careful with the language we use, because language has history and baggage. As they warn you at the baggage carousels in airports, many other bags may look like yours but aren’t. For instance, I used to use the term Self-Realization to refer to a certain level of awakening. But I discovered that the term had too much baggage, some of it ancient and some of it modern. Following the consciousness of the various teachers using the term, it became clear that everyone meant something different by it. And for students of mine who had moved through that particular level of awakening, as they would interact with other groups or with people who had read material from other teachers, it created all sorts of confusion. So, I had to abandon the term and look for new language—not just for that term but also for each level of awakening. I had to find language that was relatively free of baggage but was also vibrationally aligned with each level, so the new language could help to define the Map of awakening that I was being shown through my own process.

The one word I could not get away from, though, was the word ‘awakening’. Thankfully, it has less baggage than most other terms in common use. Of course, other people using this term may still mean something different than I do, but I will define specifically what I mean by it so there is no confusion.

General vs. Specifics: The word ‘awakening’ has a general, commonly understood meaning that simply refers to the idea of waking up out of some kind of sleep or dream or trance. Extended to the spiritual realm, the general concept is that the individual, separate person or ego we experience ourself to be is really just a dream that our greater self is having, and we are caught in this dream, taking the experience to be reality. In this context, the idea of awakening is that it presents the possibility of coming out of this dream of separateness and awakening to our greater, true reality.

This general sense of awakening is fully aligned with the way the term will be used in this book. In addition, because the Map presented here will point to various levels of awakening, I will develop specific language to differentiate these unique levels, as we go along.

Basic Awakening & the ‘Core Veil’: The term I use for someone’s initial awakening, for the first level of awakening, is ‘Basic Awakening’. People have all kinds of experiences that they like to think are awakenings, but most aren’t. Most of those experiences