Life After Awakening
The literature stops at the opening. Almost nothing is written about the years that follow, which is exactly where most people get lost.
You see something true. And you still have a job, a partner, children, a mortgage, and a self that no longer holds all of it together. Nobody warns you that this is the hard part, or that it takes years rather than weeks.
These are the pieces about that stretch. If you are still in the acute physical stage, the sleeplessness and the energy and the kriyas, start with Kundalini Awakening instead.
My Wife Was Pregnant. I Couldn't Go to the Supermarket.
My own worst stretch, without the polish.
The Three Movements of Spiritual Awakening (More Important Than Any State)
The structure I use to work out where someone actually is.
Why Your Relationships Change After Awakening
What happens to intimacy when one of two people shifts and the other does not.
Why You Lose Friends After a Spiritual Awakening
And why that is not a sign you are doing it wrong.
When Kundalini Awakening Makes Daily Life Impossible
When functioning itself falls away.
I Knew My Potential. My Awakening Wouldn't Let Me Reach It Yet.
On ambition that has to wait.
What had actually changed, years later.
What's Missing in Your Awakening Practice
The two wings: insight and healing. Most people only train one.
Spiritual Seeking Can Become Avoidance
When the path becomes the hiding place.
4 Red Flags I've Seen in Spiritual Teachers (After 15 Years on the Path)
How to decide who to trust with this.
Integration takes longer than anyone tells you, and it goes better with someone who has been through it. There is a free guide on stabilising the process, and a free thirty-minute call where you tell me where you are and I will be honest about whether I can help.