On this channel we spent a lot of time talking about awakening using the word awakening.

And in fact in pop culture the word woke now is becoming trendy of course it doesn't mean what I mean when I say

awakening but what do I mean when I say awakening so I thought I would do a

episode just exclusively

purely describing the subjective

phenomenology of awakening. What does it feel like to awaken? Never mind what it means,

metaphysically, what it means for your life, what the consequences are, forget

all that, just what does it actually feel like?

And I remember when I first started learning about Enlightenment and Awakening, I was also very curious

about this and I didn't get very good descriptions that I found satisfying from other teachers and

gurus. A lot of them are kind of quiet about it or they tell their personal

story of awakening but it doesn't really do a good job of describing

it phenomenologically.

So I'm going to attempt that here today.

Now, this is tricky to do by its very nature because it's an ineffable experience and really it goes beyond even the notion of an experience at all

and also because there are many different types and depths of awakening.

That's one of the things you will realize if you do a lot of this work

is that there's so much depth and also different types and facets to awakening.

In fact, I released an episode in the past called The Many Facetes of Awakening,

which talk about the dozens of different facets that exist to

awakening. I've had hundreds of awakenings and many of them,

oddly enough, have had different flavors and hit upon different facets. Now, that doesn't mean that these

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