The process of Enlightenment

At the beginning of my spiritual quest I had no intention to become enlightened nor did I understand what that even meant. Yet know after 15 years I am beginning to understand things in the light of what spiritual teachers teach. My questions of the world started at age 13, and amazingly life changing event caused a burning question, who had my grandmother prayed to all her life and where is she now? My search started within her own religion, she was Catholic. I quickly found I had many questions for which I could not see answers within the Bible, Sunday School taught me to listen well, question little and obey. Well that was my experience of it and I did not enjoy it one bit. It felt all together wrong to me and the open ended answer of Heaven and God, a man which both Loved and punished you made no sense to my now 14 year old mind. It is written in scriptures: “Be ye perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” When I asked what this meant, follow the commandments was the resounding answer. I continued this quest with 2 more years of traditional church teaching moving through Baptist, Protestant, and Born again Christian churches. I found no huge difference in the teaching and knew they would also not answer my questions. After a series of seemingly coincidental events and Aunt whom I had not seen in years allowed me to stay with her for a few months during the summer, I had no idea how radical this life experience would be, but looking back I know when I started getting real answers and this was it.  My Aunt had also made a choice to learn many traditional religious ways and seemed content with her newest known answer, The Law of Attraction and Energy work. As I have studied this subject now for 13 years the answers have become clear and known to me on a level which is indescribable but I will do my best to share it with you.
 
There are moment I have experienced in my life which can only be described as Enlightened. These moments did not begin to occur until 7 years into my studies of meditation, energy awareness and couscous thinking. They started off very short in nature a few minutes at a time, then gradually increased to hours, days and most recently, weeks. These times are very different from my previously known awareness levels. There is a stillness in my body that has no words to describe it, a knowing of deep alignment with everything, everyone and the unknown realms. In these moment, I first began to know the pure perfection of everything. I could feel the immense energy coursing through me which belong to everything. Enlightenment is, I believe, the moment in which your able to see clearly the perfection of this world and everything within it. There is an amazing clarity in these moments of life that truly allow you to understand, deeply, what that passage,“Be ye perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”, speaks of. In these moments of clarity, I deeply understand the perfection of all things. I feel overwhelmed with Love and Peace. These moments turned into days and weeks, and this deepening of awareness is true bliss. Not a thing goes wrong and yet has nothing to do with things, it has to do with my experience of it all. It seems as though in these days, the people I spend my time with have changed but in truth it is my perception that has shifted. The world seems brighter, but it is only my deeper awareness of energy that has made it all light up. In these days the women cutting me off is as precious to me as my own son. I feel a Love that eludes words. Enlightenment I believe is this awareness, and when your are able to live in this awareness daily you are a Master of Enlightenment.

 ... the amazing truth we are all perfect, even it what feels like the most imperfect moment in our own minds, are divine by design.