Fresh from the Field: A Perfect Awakening Session

I’m fresh out of an awakening session with William in Northern Ireland. I want to tell you about it.

Round 1 of an awakening session concerns itself with what you are not. It will take at least half, and usually two-thirds of the whole session. Round 2 illuminates what you are.

ROUND 1

In our little introduction I asked William about his “spiritual story,” just as I do with everyone. He replied that it was probably one I heard a lot. For 10 years he’d read a lot of books, been to the workshops, done all the stuff that veteran seekers almost inevitably end up doing. We do what it takes until it takes, and then we don’t have to do it anymore. Simple as that.

Yet questions still remained for William. He felt he wasn’t quite on it. I cheerfully announced that although we couldn’t know for sure, the odds were very high that he’d arrived at the end of the seeker’s path. Come on in, the water is fine. We began.

As we worked our way through the initial sequences I got no active resistance from William. None whatsoever. Which is not always a good thing. In the absence of our seeing through and overcoming resistance, I often can’t tell if the client is following the prepared breadcrumb-by-breadcrumb path I’m laying out for them, or waiting patiently for the session to end so that they can lose this guy, and get back to something of real importance.

Was William getting it, or being politely bored? I didn’t know, but my suspicion was that he was following me perfectly. We plowed on.

At one of the key waypoints in Round 1, where we’re investigating what you are not, I often get a good feel for how well the client is seeing things. I saw the look of surprise and amused wonder on William’s face that always tells me the client or student is “seeing it” very clearly, meaning that the understanding is racing to unfold. It’s not part of any clever plan, but it’s with the pair of questions that arises at that waypoint that many people first get a good, strong glimpse of truth. William did. 

We then went through the rest of Round 1 without objection from William, but with enough grins and snickers that I knew he was either waking up very clearly, or he thought I was a complete idiot. I’m okay either way, but the “waking up clearly” thing is of course what we’re hoping and aiming for. I want everyone to get their money’s worth if only they’ll take it. By the end of the round William verbally confirmed that he was getting his money’s worth.

ROUND 2

I began the round with a recap of what we’d just done and why. I long ago discovered that almost no one will accept who and what they are until they have seen to their own satisfaction who and what they are not. Once that’s been truly seen, however, there is a window of opportunity into which I can present what you are, it’ll be seen quite readily, and is, generally, easily accepted on a sliding scale, dependent upon how willing the client is to tell themselves the truth. There’s nothing personal in this, because there’s nothing personal anywhere.

What I really mean here is that Oneness becomes ready to let go of the story of that character and unveil Itself to Itself. We call that “awakening,” but it’s not the character that awakens, it’s Oneness Itself.

I told William the Homecoming Story, which some of you old-timers may know by the name of “The Void Story.” Sort of the same thing, different name. Except that the story is always evolving, of course. It just happens.

William let himself fall under the spell of the story, woke up to what he was as well as to what he wasn’t, and we were home free. I went through the final group of “pointers and clearers” and he was unflappable. Mind you, William was not having a big dualistic experience, but Oneness was waking up to the truth of Itself in a big way. That’s all that’s required. Only the character wants the Vegas show.

All that was left was confirmation. I took him through the usual steps, once again with zero resistance. I asked him directly, “You’ve seen this very clearly, yes?” 

“Yes.”

Oneness is awake over there, is that correct?

“That’s correct.”

I announced the end of the session unless he still had any questions. He did not.

“I will probably avail myself of some of your clarity sessions.”

I told him truthfully that Oneness would find that beneficial. We bowed to our shared True Nature showing up as two different, but not separate human beings. We then clicked off, and I started writing this post. Job done.

I’ve had a number of sessions like this over the years, but every single one of them rejuvenates me. Awakening sessions are a whole lot trickier than you might think, even if you’ve been through one yourself. They often leave Fredness exhausted. Not that Fredness will have done anything, mind you, because Fredness’ entire contribution to an awakening session consists of sitting down at the computer and turning on Skype. It instantly vacates the room upon the client’s appearance. It should take up golf or something.

After all, what in the world does Fredness know about awakening? Absolutely nothing, because it only appears, on either side of the screen, in Fredness’ absence, never in its presence. For goodness sake, it winds up with all of the money and most of the credit! That seems like a more than fair deal for it, and it seems to like it. I don’t need either one.

William was one of those blessed apples who was still clinging to the limb by a spiderweb. All I had to do was blow. I didn’t even have to blow hard. Thanks, William. And welcome Home.