Dear Common Awakening Community,

Have you ever stood on a mountaintop when the sun was setting and felt like you stood between the earth and sky? Have you ever experienced a moment of incredible compassion or love, and it left you speechless? Have you wondered about the world with big questions that make you feel both insignificant and universal all at the same time? Has your body ever felt really alive and vibrant, like energy was pouring out of you?

These experiences are mystical and may be pointing you toward an experience of unity consciousness. Unity consciousness sounds like the epitome of ‘woo’, which is why this week’s podcast brings it down to earth in a very direct and applicable way. 

Maria shares about an experience this week that is difficult to put into words, and, yet she does so beautifully and articulately! What makes unity consciousness so hard to describe is that it’s like feeling something unfamiliar in the dark, and we’re trying to describe it using sensations instead of concretes. It’s that sort of experience in which you feel qualities of light/dark, flow/dissolving/energy, and height/depth. It’s a multi-dimensional experience that is so ‘woo’ but also part of an everyday essential experience of connecting with a Source that is beyond ourselves. 

As you listen to Maria’s story, I invite you to consider your own experiences that you can only talk about in terms of what they are like but can’t pinpoint what they are. How might they be calling and inviting you to a new way of understanding or a threshold of change?

With love,

Annie