By the time we are four years old (!), we no longer remember the mystery of Oneness we came out of. We no longer hold our own essential qualities of wonder, delight, complete relaxation, trust, or loving connection with All That Is.
Stay with me through this super condensed summary of the path to awakening. It’s only 800 words. I want you to find it deep, powerful, profound.
First, start at the 28,000-foot view: All religious and spiritual teachings worth their salt tell the story, in one version or another, of THE FALL. We were connected to Oneness, God, Paradise, Being Itself … but then we fell from this state of grace. The spiritual journey, the path of awakening is to find our way back to Oneness … only this time with full consciousness.
Now shift your perspective to the intimate level of ourselves: All psychological schools worth their salt (Freud, Jung, Self psychology, somatic psychology, etc.) tell the story, in one version or another, of THE FALL. We were symbiotically connected to original oneness through womb, Mother, our own innocence … but then we experienced pain, neglect, lack of attunement, and exposure to the hard knocks of an environment outside the womb.
Both versions say that after we fell out of Oneness, we “put on skins,” as did Adam and Eve in the Garden. Spiritually, the skins are our sense of separation between inner and outer, self and others, body and Cosmos. Psychologically, the skins are our egoic and personality structures that defend us, yet also wall us off from the free flow of life force.
In putting on these skins, in developing an ego and a personality with its profound separateness, we lost connection with Being Itself.
By the time we are four years old (!), we no longer remember the mystery of Oneness we came out of. We no longer hold our own essential qualities of wonder, delight, complete relaxation, trust, or loving connection with All That Is.
Whether the spiritual or psychological version, here is profound insight into what the hell happened to us? Why are we so f**ked up? So wounded, so unable to live in harmony with each other and with the bounty of Life itself?
Answer: we lost connection with Being. Instead, we became an ego, encapsulated in our own skin, thinking we were separate from everything else.
Are you still with me? That’s the super-condensed summary. It’s taken me forty years of study and living the psycho-spiritual path to say it in 800 words.
Because the summary is so dense, I now invite you to give yourself permission to spend just one, little, old extra minute to re-read the seven short paragraphs above. The seven paragraph accurately summary what must be overcome in your spiritual awakening, or more simply, your path to peace and fulfillment.
Stage left: Enter the 12-second Recharge.
The 12-second Recharge is the tool which allows you to shift from an isolated, separate ego, lost in tunnel-vision TO a life-giving re-connection with the nature of Being itself … in a flash.
Every time you invoke a12-second Recharge, you are healing “the Fall”. You are restoring yourself to the original wholeness you came from, that your essential Nature.
Everyday, you are lost in a separate ego knocking off your tasks (The Fall). Suddenly, you remember to12-second Recharge, i.e., you remember to pull your head out of your to-do list, out of your seeking, your striving, your subtlety trying to plan, scheme, push, force and make something happen …
AND instead, boom, you breath, feel, orient to, and spiritually connect with Being, sitting right where you are! Always here, always loving, always there for you.
Ops, you keep forgetting again and again! It IS all right here. Grace and fulfillment IS right here, right now, if you will but shift to it in a12-second Recharge, and learn how to FEEL IT AS A LIVING REALITY.
No, it does not fix your problems, does not make you millions, does not keep you from having to growing psychologically and spiritually throughout your entire life. No, the12-second Recharge does not give you permanent enlightenment.
What the12-second Recharge does do is reconnect you with Being, with your original state of Oneness, only this time with consciousness.
In the12-second Recharge, you leap not only into the Now, but also fast forward all the way to the end – you are One with All That Is.
Ahhhhhh.