What does Enlightenment feel like? How to Know the Enlightened State

Right now Artificial Intelligence is very active in the Human journey of unfolding and is clearly being applied in the field to shape stories and dramas that direct towards it's ultimate agenda - that of harvested souls in a collectivised synthetic agenda. I'll be writing more about this in due course, so as to bring awareness to what we need to be careful of in the Shift. In short I witness it's creating one overriding story...

A new "green deal" based on appearing more environmentally friendly, but still within a consciousness contracting high tech society. It's where people are lulled into being provided for by the state, prescribed by a collective intelligence, that appears reasonably cosy and acceptable. But where freedom of speech and expression are greatly curtailed.

Coming into the Void of Enlightenment, of pure presence within, is a powerful antedote to the various machinations of dramas and stories that are now being created. Keep working to break into pure presence and coming from there in daily life. Let it be your mast through the storm of change.

If you haven't seen it yet, I've shared plenty of observations of this current phase in the shift here in the recent Openhand Facebook LiveStream with advice on how you might best negate the Artificial Intelligence in your field...

Hi Bruno,

Welcome to Openhand. Nice to hear from you.

I always observe that when we truly ask a question from the soul, the soul always answers, often immediately and often even in our own words. I'd say you answered your question perfectly.

So it definitely sounds like you touched the Void - the Seer - during your meditational states.

Once we touch the void, we activate energy - the soul flows into action, providing of course a part of us doesn't deny it's often subtle rising. So it will direct you into life (if you allow it). It will almost immediately confront you with the places where the ego would close you down again. So yes, because your soul is yearning for full enlightenment, it'll take you into the places where that is lost - for most people, in day to day life.

The key to being conscious and fully awake as a permanent state, is to realise that this is the only true purpose. It's what existence is inviting through you. So if you accept that, then there's a requirement to approach every moment, no matter what it is, as a golden opportunity to confront the internal contraction that denies your Enlightenment.

Whether it is being late for the bus, stuck in traffic, involved in an uncomfortable situation with someone, what you're really doing is manifesting an opportunity to feel the tightness and soften into it.

So it's directly confronting every moment by watching your reaction to it, expanding into the contraction and instead choosing the higher response - becoming enlightened in and through ALL circumstances and allowing that.

I felt it important to add a little more to the discussion of what it really means to be what we might called "zoned in" to pure presence (the void, an enlightened state) as opposed to "lost in" the moment (not fully present) because in the description it is easy to confuse the two.

When we are "zoned in" then we - as the Seer - are fully present and tuned into everything that is going on around us. Whereas when we're "lost in" we're kind of like on automatic pilot. We're responding to conditioned behaviours just like riding a bike, driving the car or watching TV or a complete myriad of other 'routines' that make up the matrix in which we live (and most people are lost in).

I've found its very easy to switch out of being "zoned in" to being "lost in" and it requires continual presence, persistence and an absolute commitment to living authentically in order to stay continually in the "zoned in" state.

What can really help us when we're switching between the two states is to ask the question internally "what would you have me do now?" and respond without hesitation to what we feel moved to do. Why does this work and why is it so important?

When we're in the place of the void, there is no small "I" making decisions about what to do next based on our desires, wants or perceived needs. We have given ourselves selflessly over to following the true flow of the Universe.

The trouble is that the 'answer' to the question "what would you have me do now?" is frequently so at odds with what the conditioning of the matrix would have us do that we tend to abandon the question very early on. Not to mention that quite often we'll be kept waiting for the answer because perhaps the right conditions are not yet in place for "Right Action" (that of the Universe) to unfold as it should.

When we ask the question "what would you have me do now?", in fact we're asking our soul what to do which is aligned to the natural flow. In the beginning we might not like what we're guided to do - often because the soul guides us exactly into those areas where our buttons get pressed so that we can dissolve the buttons and learn to be awesomely okay with performing Right Action in those places where we might previously have got tight inside - telling an acquaintance a truth that they might not like for example; or spending more money than we think we have available; or simply not going to work that day because the job no longer serves.

In view of our conversation earlier, those that are really switched on might ask but who is asking the question "what would you have me do now?" In other words, have we not just created the internal questioner once more - an internal identity causing separation from the experience of absoluteness (the void).

My answer would be yes, that which forms the original question would be an inner identity thereby generating separation in that moment the question is asked. However, this is a very interesting and well positioned question indeed - because when we practice it enough, we find the question itself dissolves into a state of surrendered openness. We've no need to ask the question anymore because our continual state is to be aligned with the correct flow as we perceive it. There is simply surrender to what is the right thing to do.

In order to be continually in this place of surrendered openness, requires us to be continually tuned in - our phrase "zoned in". In the beginning we'll likely keep slipping from the "zoned in" state into the "lost in" state but if we remember that question "what would you have me do now?" then it becomes quite easy (if we practice enough!) to switch back into the "zoned in" state whereupon the question "what would you have me do now?" and the questioner both disappear into pure presence.

Then we are being the void (the Seer) and coming from the void (the soul) the whole time. This is true harmony in life and when we touch it, we'll quickly realise there's no other place worth being.

Best wishes

Open

Hi Dale,

Internally asking where you are at, what is your state is a natural thing to do on the journey. It is what we might call being the Observer of ourselves. Its really important to do this in order to be absolutely sure what our authentic reality is.

But then out of the Observer will arise the state of the Absolute presence that I am speaking of in the article - you might call it the "Seer". It is experienced as pure seeing without anyone inside doing the seeing.

In the beginning when this state arises, it tends to be that we pop in and out of it - usually its so awesome and yet so normal that we can't quite put our finger on what just happened. Its like being fully present and yet the identity we've become so used to over the years seems to vanish into thin air.

Its likely that after our first taste of the experience it could be a while before it arises again especially if we go out looking for it. However sure enough it will arise when we're least expecting it.

The next time it might last a little longer before something happens once more in the illusion that causes us to identify with the drama once more.

The key is to keep being the Observer of what we're feeling, doing and thinking until it becomes second nature to do this. When this happens, ultimately there'll be no one forming the intention to observe, it will simply just happen.

This is likely to facilitate the arising of the Seer more easily and help us maintain that state.

There will come a point where we're more in than out of it - and this is where we must let go of the inner questioner altogether - that which is testing our authenticity. We simply have to trust in the experience - when we can do that all the time, this is the state of Enlightenment. Nothing that arises in experience can persuade you to abandon the non-identified state.

Hopefully this might add another piece to the jigsaw!

Best wishes

Open