AWAKENING

“My goal is to facilitate the growth of one million awake, aware, adult human beings.”

Big Talk. But then, we SHOULD have big, scary, inspiring goals that will challenge and transform us.

To accomplish this one, of course, one would have to be that “awake, aware, adult” creature oneself. Working backwards, the first question is “what is an adult?” The soundest definition might be cone who is responsible for their emotions, actions, and security. Responsible for their reactions, and finances.

AWARE might well be to be engaged in a feedback loop with reality, such that we see our actions and the RE-actions of reality. This is central to success in anything: imagine how difficult it would be to learn to shoot an arrow if you couldn’t see the target, or lied to yourself about where your arrow struck!

“Awake” is difficult. To move from the dreaming fantasy state. To see life as it is, not as we wish it to be. To not be limited by the social consensus. To prefer reality, even if that reality is painful.

Every morning we have an opportunity to do this, simply by taking conscious control of our emergence from the dreaming state.

I suggest that you create a conscious ritual of awakening, and then tweak and tune it over time until you have a process that is as close to perfect as you can reach.

Here is mine, presented for consideration, NOT as a perfect model, but a work in progress.