The Shock of Awakening, What It Is & How Necessary

“An awakening has begun, 

an awakening to a deeper realm within yourself, 

a deeper experience.”¹

“Awake from your dreams, then, and become attentive.”²

At this point in history, the New Message from God is sounding the alarm to a sleeping people. 

The New Message is calling us to wake up to a greater reality, but we grumpily shrug off awareness to sleep a little longer, postponing awakening as deep down we do know that when we do awaken, it will be time to take responsibility. It is already time, but we prefer to dream.

“This is a time when a great awakening must happen within you, a great stirring of the heart.”³

One of the first shocks upon awakening is the realization that it isn’t about our own personal enlightenment! Yes, the call to awaken is a call to a better, more secure, peaceful and happy life, but especially at this time there is a bigger reason for any who can, to wake up. 

“People think spiritual awakening is all bliss and happiness. Yes, there is a great relief. Yes, there is a great homecoming. But then you begin to experience the predicament that you and the world are in.”⁴

Our environment is imperiled, and this puts the world as we know it at great risk, both from the breakdown of systems and from collateral consequences of this very liability: it makes our world susceptible to exploitation by resource seekers. 

“When you begin to awaken, one of the first things you realize upon awakening is your predicament. It is not a happy awakening, necessarily. Yes, it is a great relief to finally feel what you really feel and to know what you really know. Yet what you see at the beginning is your predicament, and you say, ‘Oh, no! Oh, my God!’ You feel it, and you know it, and it is powerful. And you ask yourself, ‘Am I just being negative? Am I just being fearful? Or is it really like this?’ It is really like this.”⁴

We are not alone nor resourceless. We have allies in the universe, seen and unseen, and they have been able to sound the alarm and to provide the resources needed to see us through this critical moment. 

“The Unseen Ones … are aware of people’s complacency and the foolish things that people tell themselves. They know the struggle and the tribulation. They know the intense desire and courage it takes to awaken, even from a happy dream. The Unseen Ones know the situation is urgent, and they are concerned for you. They are not only concerned with what calamities might prevail if people do not prepare. They are also concerned that you may miss your opportunity to give your greater gifts here in the world. In a sense, this is a greater tragedy. It means that so much effort and work on your behalf will have come to naught.”^​5

The Voice of Revelation is telling us, if you miss your opportunity to give your greater gifts here in the world… this is a greater tragedy than the calamities to come if people do not prepare! Could it be that the individual journey through this life, and the accomplishments of this lifetime for each of us, matters more than the sum of all the upheaval that we see ahead? My own personal enlightenment, while incredibly important then, yet becomes a matter of least concern for me as I awaken to the predicament we are in. What a paradox! 

After the initial shock of awakening and seeing the predicament we are in, awakening becomes a continual experience of ever-growing awareness of the predicament and the need for every person to contribute fully towards resolution. The paradox disappears when concern for self merges with concern for others. The book of practices from the New Message, Steps to Knowledge says

“You give to the world through your own
development at this time, for you are preparing
to give a greater gift than you have ever given before.”⁶

At this critical threshold in human development, our gifts are needed as never before.

Find out more about ensuring you do not miss the opportunity to give your greater gifts in the world at http://www.newmessage.org/steps-knowledge-the-book-of-inner-knowing and hear the Voice of Revelation at http://www.newmessage.org/experience-the-new-message-from-god.

Read more from the New Message from God on the subject of spiritual awakening: http://www.newmessage.org/wiki/Spiritual_awakening

¹The Return (August 5, 2013)

²Steps to Knowledge, Step 325

³Bringing Balance and Security to the World (October 3, 2008)

⁴‘Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 9: Sharing the Way of Knowledge with Others

⁵Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 11: Preparing for the Future

⁶Steps to Knowledge, Step 149