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Spiritual Awakening Through Soul Connections
Five unique challenges of awakening by way of connection to another person
There are a lot of ways to come into a spiritual awakening experience. Many people awaken through a close brush with death. Others through a profound tragedy that shocks their soul into awareness that there is more beyond this plane. Still, others (such as Eckhart Tolle) awaken spontaneously with no discernable catalyst.
Then there are lionhearts: the ones who awaken through love and connection, through an intimate (not just speaking of physical intimacy here) relationship with the divine in the form of a person. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think this is one of the hardest ways to awaken because we have to do it through a relationship with another human being.
Spiritual Awakening by way of Connection
If we come into contact with the divine through a near-death experience, or we unveil the truth of reality on an ayahuasca trip, we don’t then have to continue to wrestle with the messy consequences of the earthly expression of that divine essence. What do I mean?
When we meet someone we share a deep soul connection with, they awaken us to the existence of our soul. Their presence shocks us into remembrance or further catalyzes our soul growth. This is a gift, a wonderful thing. But we don’t always embody our highest divine selves, and neither do they. And while the connection exists in divinity, at its most pure, accessing that experience at all times can be nearly impossible.
People are messy. We have fears and egos and control issues, all of which make it very difficult to connect to our personal divinity. And if they — our soulmate or twin flame, divine counterpart, etc. — are disconnected, it’s very easy for us to feel disconnected (and vice versa), given the depth of our energetic ties to one another.
We end up in a place where we so desperately crave the experience of divinity through our connection to this person. Yet we’re constantly challenged with clearing out the crap that gets in the way of it, often for ourselves and on their behalf, even if unintentionally. This is very hard work.
