Lauren
asked
Rose Rosetree:
Dear Rose, thank you for answering our questions here. When I read "Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening," I had a one-on-one session with you soon after, which helped me understand any questions that I had so much better. My question is: When it comes to Enlightenment Teachers, do you think it's important that they're accessible to their students? Is it a red flag if they're not? It seems important to me.
Rose Rosetree
What a practical question, Lauren! Thank you for asking this follow-up to reading Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening. In giving a response, I’ll save us all some time by referring to that particular book as SEEKING.
You see, I plan to give a full answer to your question. Together, you and other Goodreaders can join me, going through some important consumer-type considerations for spiritual seekers, going through them... one step at a time.
FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT?
Using your full potential in life, as yourself, that unique individual you are.
That very human goal is the point. That includes achieving personal development for yourself, much greater spiritual clarity, and probably quite a lot more than occurs to you right now.
And yes, achieving Spiritual Enlightenment is a tall order. Most people are nowhere close to using their full potential.
WHAT MAKES SEEKING A UNIQUE SELF-HELP BOOK?
In no particular order:
#1. This book was written for people who are living in the Age of Awakening. Meaning, a second era in human consciousness, beginning with the Shift on Dec. 21, 2012.
To learn more about that Shift, you Goodreaders might wish to search on – then read -- this article at my Energy Spirituality® blog:
“True Signs of the Age of Awakening”
(When doing your search, be sure to include the quotes.)
One reason why I recommend that you read this article is this. Many people publish ideas about what is meant by the Age of Awakening. Sadly, many of these ideas are confused and inaccurate, thereby confusing spiritual seekers more than helping them.
Actually, one way you can tell if you would benefit from the SEEKING book is to read that article. Does it resonate for you?
#2. This book provides knowledge, not a path. Most likely, what you learn will be compatible with:
* Your religion
* Alternatively, with being spiritual but not religious
* Or even with being an atheist
* Whether or not you’re into pop psychology
* Or you meditate
* Or you do yoga
* Or not.
As for your current food lifestyle, no worries.
You eat as you choose. Just as you wear what you choose.
Basically, Lauren and other Goodreaders, I am not a guru. Rather, I am an Enlightenment Teacher and an Enlightenment Coach. SEEKING aims to teach you useful things that I have learned from half a century (gulp!) as a spiritual teacher.
SEEKING can help you to gain much better results from your chosen path.
#3. What gives me the standing to write this book? I’m living in Spiritual Enlightenment, and have helped many students to do the same.
Also, the field that I’ve founded, Energy Spirituality®, includes many skills that can be useful for helping people to grow emotionally and evolve spiritually. (Including 11 trademarks with the USPTO.) All these skills were developed to work now, in the Age of Awakening.
Why does that matter? Because many traditional approaches to Enlightenment Teaching don’t work well anymore. While several new methods and skills are pretty essential.
Most Enlightenment Teachers are writing as if it’s still the Age of Faith. Sadly, that can make their teachings obsolete. Whereas SEEKING provides knowledge that works now, in the Age of Awakening.
CAN ANY HOW-TO BOOK BE ALL YOU NEED TO MOVE INTO SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT?
Definitely not. SEEKING provides a powerful Program for Spiritual Enlightenment. Helping you to know what will work for you, what won’t, and why.
That kind of understanding can add greatly to your discernment. Seems to me, it’s really important to gain the new kinds of discernment in that book. Some of that info may open your eyes wide. Since I am definitely not a member of today’s Enlightenment Establishment.
Goodreaders, how to define that term? For starters, today’s Enlightenment Establishment includes:
- Pastors and other clergy members
- Trainers and life coaches
- Psychotherapists and self-help writers
- Teachers of Tai Chi and Qigong and yoga
- Those who advocate a vegan or vegetarian diet
- Teachers of Spiritual Awakening and meditation teachers
- And plenty more.
SKILLS THAT CAN PROVE HELPFUL IN AN ENLIGHTENMENT TEACHER
Let's go into some detail about today's essential skills to supplement SEEKING, Lauren. I’ll describe them, using the names that I use for them. (Of course, these names are not standardized outside of Energy Spirituality; you might use different names for them.)
All the six following skills are essential, imo, for serving as an Enlightenment Teacher now, in the Age of Awakening.
#1. Good skills of aura READING. Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, at a minimum
There’s no substitute for problem solving when a seeker of Enlightenment gets stuck.
Members of the Enlightenment Establishment can make inquiries about the student’s understanding. As if that revealed what is happening in that student’s consciousness.
Look, that approach may have worked before the Shift. But in the Age of Awakening, we can grow really fast… or stall… or even go on a Spiritual Side Trip (more on these later in this response to you, Lauren).
Which aura reading skills?
Today's Enlightenment Coaching requires Stage 3 Energetic Literacy... at a minimum.
Huh? Info about energetic literacy development is really cool, with practical implications for you, the seeker of Enlightenment.
I recommend a series of three YouTube videos that I have made on energetic literacy. To find them, go onto the YouTube website and search on this series of short video lectures:
Aura Reading – Stage 1 Developing Energetic Literacy
Aura Reading – Stage 2 Developing Energetic Literacy
Aura Reading – Stage 3 Developing Energetic Literacy
Also helpful could be this: Google on "44 stages of energetic literacy" – and be sure to include those quotation marks when you search. Most seekers of Enlightenment have no idea about any of these refinements to energetic literacy.
#2. Good skills of aura HEALING.
No blame. Seekers can get stuck while developing Spiritual Enlightenment. Often the problem is what (in Energy Spirituality) we call “STUFF.” Using that as a term of art, STUFF means stored emotional and/or energetic garbage that becomes lodged in a person’s aura.
Important to note: STUFF is subconscious, not conscious.
A spiritual seeker’s ability to discern this is like asking you to become your own proctologist or gynecologist. Locating STUFF is technical, and so is discerning precisely which type of STUFF is involved. Even more important is knowing what to do about it! Using skills to permanently remove whichever form of STUFF is most important for accelerating a seeker’s progress.
Fortunately, there are many trademarked systems for doing all this. Some are taught through our online workshops, in the Spiritually Sparkling® Collection of Workshops – an excellent resource for skills of self-healing.
One of the main qualifications for an Enlightenment Coach today… is to have this kind of expertise. To be clear, all systems for energy healing are not interchangeable. Some work far better than others.
#3. Empath Empowerment® Coaching
What if the seeker of Enlightenment was born as an empath? That’s about 1 in 20 people, so the chances are hardly remote.
Many of the students I’ve helped to move into Spiritual Enlightenment have been born as empaths. It was life-changing for them to learn Empath Empowerment. Without this, they likely would NOT have moved into Enlightenment.
Non-empaths, of course, haven’t needed this kind of help.
#4. Good skills for helping students make choices.
* Maybe it’s a choice about whether to stay in a particular love relationship.
* Maybe it’s a choice about whether to go vegan or vegetarian.
* Perhaps the seeker of Enlightenment is ready for a career change, but finds it hard to decide among several choices that sound good.
This Enlightenment Coach offers sessions of Soul Thrill® Aura Research. Something you can read about at the rose-rosetree website….
#5. Good skills to detect Spiritual Side Trips
What a big deal this turns out to be, in the Age of Awakening! It’s very important to be able to discern when this is going on, and I can’t give folks a checklist. Spiritual side trips are tricky.
Any time that a person books a session with me – other than a session for Face Reading Secrets® -- I will be learning about that student’s consciousness, such as by facilitating a Skilled Empath Merge. During that one-on-one personal session, I can find out if the person has gone on a Spiritual Side Trip. In which case, I'll do what I can to help that beautiful spiritual seeker do better.
#6. Enlightenment Coaching that Works Now, in the Age of Awakening
Lauren, you know this next point. Many of you other Goodreaders may not. Here goes.
In the Age of Awakening two different forms of Spiritual Enlightenment are possible:
***Traditional Enlightenment
***And Age of Awakening Enlightenment
Your soul chooses for you, so don’t worry about consciously making “the right decision.”
Understandably – yet unfortunately—most members of today’s Enlightenment Establishment have never even heard of Age of Awakening Enlightenment. Yet that’s more common now than moving into the nonduality kind of Enlightenment.
To learn more, you might wish to google on “Age of Awakening Enlightenment Vs. Trad Enlightenment” – and be sure to use those quotation marks when you search. What you find in that article may shock you. Well, as an active blogger, I will respond to your COMMENTS at that blogpost.
These days, it’s pretty important that any Enlightenment Teacher have good solid knowledge about both types of Spiritual Enlightenment, not just the golden oldie.
FINALLY, WHAT COUNTS (TO ME) AS A RED FLAG IN AN ENLIGHTENMENT TEACHER?
Lauren, you and other Goodreaders have been patient. But you know me, Lauren, as a teacher I’m very thorough.
Obviously, it’s ideal if the Enlightenment Teacher or Enlightenment Coach is available to personally help students.
But they can’t if:
- They’re dead.
- They are really, really popular and can’t make the time to help individual students any longer.
- In either case, no blame, right?
Would I call this lack of personal attention a red flag? More like a problem. And... you’re right, Lauren, I'd say this amounts to a pretty serious problem.
IN CONCLUSION
There’s more to receiving help from an Enlightenment Teacher than most people know. By reading my response here, you may have more sophistication as a consumer. Hope so!
Thanks again, Lauren, for your contribution to Ask the Author here on Goodreads.
You see, I plan to give a full answer to your question. Together, you and other Goodreaders can join me, going through some important consumer-type considerations for spiritual seekers, going through them... one step at a time.
FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT?
Using your full potential in life, as yourself, that unique individual you are.
That very human goal is the point. That includes achieving personal development for yourself, much greater spiritual clarity, and probably quite a lot more than occurs to you right now.
And yes, achieving Spiritual Enlightenment is a tall order. Most people are nowhere close to using their full potential.
WHAT MAKES SEEKING A UNIQUE SELF-HELP BOOK?
In no particular order:
#1. This book was written for people who are living in the Age of Awakening. Meaning, a second era in human consciousness, beginning with the Shift on Dec. 21, 2012.
To learn more about that Shift, you Goodreaders might wish to search on – then read -- this article at my Energy Spirituality® blog:
“True Signs of the Age of Awakening”
(When doing your search, be sure to include the quotes.)
One reason why I recommend that you read this article is this. Many people publish ideas about what is meant by the Age of Awakening. Sadly, many of these ideas are confused and inaccurate, thereby confusing spiritual seekers more than helping them.
Actually, one way you can tell if you would benefit from the SEEKING book is to read that article. Does it resonate for you?
#2. This book provides knowledge, not a path. Most likely, what you learn will be compatible with:
* Your religion
* Alternatively, with being spiritual but not religious
* Or even with being an atheist
* Whether or not you’re into pop psychology
* Or you meditate
* Or you do yoga
* Or not.
As for your current food lifestyle, no worries.
You eat as you choose. Just as you wear what you choose.
Basically, Lauren and other Goodreaders, I am not a guru. Rather, I am an Enlightenment Teacher and an Enlightenment Coach. SEEKING aims to teach you useful things that I have learned from half a century (gulp!) as a spiritual teacher.
SEEKING can help you to gain much better results from your chosen path.
#3. What gives me the standing to write this book? I’m living in Spiritual Enlightenment, and have helped many students to do the same.
Also, the field that I’ve founded, Energy Spirituality®, includes many skills that can be useful for helping people to grow emotionally and evolve spiritually. (Including 11 trademarks with the USPTO.) All these skills were developed to work now, in the Age of Awakening.
Why does that matter? Because many traditional approaches to Enlightenment Teaching don’t work well anymore. While several new methods and skills are pretty essential.
Most Enlightenment Teachers are writing as if it’s still the Age of Faith. Sadly, that can make their teachings obsolete. Whereas SEEKING provides knowledge that works now, in the Age of Awakening.
CAN ANY HOW-TO BOOK BE ALL YOU NEED TO MOVE INTO SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT?
Definitely not. SEEKING provides a powerful Program for Spiritual Enlightenment. Helping you to know what will work for you, what won’t, and why.
That kind of understanding can add greatly to your discernment. Seems to me, it’s really important to gain the new kinds of discernment in that book. Some of that info may open your eyes wide. Since I am definitely not a member of today’s Enlightenment Establishment.
Goodreaders, how to define that term? For starters, today’s Enlightenment Establishment includes:
- Pastors and other clergy members
- Trainers and life coaches
- Psychotherapists and self-help writers
- Teachers of Tai Chi and Qigong and yoga
- Those who advocate a vegan or vegetarian diet
- Teachers of Spiritual Awakening and meditation teachers
- And plenty more.
SKILLS THAT CAN PROVE HELPFUL IN AN ENLIGHTENMENT TEACHER
Let's go into some detail about today's essential skills to supplement SEEKING, Lauren. I’ll describe them, using the names that I use for them. (Of course, these names are not standardized outside of Energy Spirituality; you might use different names for them.)
All the six following skills are essential, imo, for serving as an Enlightenment Teacher now, in the Age of Awakening.
#1. Good skills of aura READING. Stage 3 Energetic Literacy, at a minimum
There’s no substitute for problem solving when a seeker of Enlightenment gets stuck.
Members of the Enlightenment Establishment can make inquiries about the student’s understanding. As if that revealed what is happening in that student’s consciousness.
Look, that approach may have worked before the Shift. But in the Age of Awakening, we can grow really fast… or stall… or even go on a Spiritual Side Trip (more on these later in this response to you, Lauren).
Which aura reading skills?
Today's Enlightenment Coaching requires Stage 3 Energetic Literacy... at a minimum.
Huh? Info about energetic literacy development is really cool, with practical implications for you, the seeker of Enlightenment.
I recommend a series of three YouTube videos that I have made on energetic literacy. To find them, go onto the YouTube website and search on this series of short video lectures:
Aura Reading – Stage 1 Developing Energetic Literacy
Aura Reading – Stage 2 Developing Energetic Literacy
Aura Reading – Stage 3 Developing Energetic Literacy
Also helpful could be this: Google on "44 stages of energetic literacy" – and be sure to include those quotation marks when you search. Most seekers of Enlightenment have no idea about any of these refinements to energetic literacy.
#2. Good skills of aura HEALING.
No blame. Seekers can get stuck while developing Spiritual Enlightenment. Often the problem is what (in Energy Spirituality) we call “STUFF.” Using that as a term of art, STUFF means stored emotional and/or energetic garbage that becomes lodged in a person’s aura.
Important to note: STUFF is subconscious, not conscious.
A spiritual seeker’s ability to discern this is like asking you to become your own proctologist or gynecologist. Locating STUFF is technical, and so is discerning precisely which type of STUFF is involved. Even more important is knowing what to do about it! Using skills to permanently remove whichever form of STUFF is most important for accelerating a seeker’s progress.
Fortunately, there are many trademarked systems for doing all this. Some are taught through our online workshops, in the Spiritually Sparkling® Collection of Workshops – an excellent resource for skills of self-healing.
One of the main qualifications for an Enlightenment Coach today… is to have this kind of expertise. To be clear, all systems for energy healing are not interchangeable. Some work far better than others.
#3. Empath Empowerment® Coaching
What if the seeker of Enlightenment was born as an empath? That’s about 1 in 20 people, so the chances are hardly remote.
Many of the students I’ve helped to move into Spiritual Enlightenment have been born as empaths. It was life-changing for them to learn Empath Empowerment. Without this, they likely would NOT have moved into Enlightenment.
Non-empaths, of course, haven’t needed this kind of help.
#4. Good skills for helping students make choices.
* Maybe it’s a choice about whether to stay in a particular love relationship.
* Maybe it’s a choice about whether to go vegan or vegetarian.
* Perhaps the seeker of Enlightenment is ready for a career change, but finds it hard to decide among several choices that sound good.
This Enlightenment Coach offers sessions of Soul Thrill® Aura Research. Something you can read about at the rose-rosetree website….
#5. Good skills to detect Spiritual Side Trips
What a big deal this turns out to be, in the Age of Awakening! It’s very important to be able to discern when this is going on, and I can’t give folks a checklist. Spiritual side trips are tricky.
Any time that a person books a session with me – other than a session for Face Reading Secrets® -- I will be learning about that student’s consciousness, such as by facilitating a Skilled Empath Merge. During that one-on-one personal session, I can find out if the person has gone on a Spiritual Side Trip. In which case, I'll do what I can to help that beautiful spiritual seeker do better.
#6. Enlightenment Coaching that Works Now, in the Age of Awakening
Lauren, you know this next point. Many of you other Goodreaders may not. Here goes.
In the Age of Awakening two different forms of Spiritual Enlightenment are possible:
***Traditional Enlightenment
***And Age of Awakening Enlightenment
Your soul chooses for you, so don’t worry about consciously making “the right decision.”
Understandably – yet unfortunately—most members of today’s Enlightenment Establishment have never even heard of Age of Awakening Enlightenment. Yet that’s more common now than moving into the nonduality kind of Enlightenment.
To learn more, you might wish to google on “Age of Awakening Enlightenment Vs. Trad Enlightenment” – and be sure to use those quotation marks when you search. What you find in that article may shock you. Well, as an active blogger, I will respond to your COMMENTS at that blogpost.
These days, it’s pretty important that any Enlightenment Teacher have good solid knowledge about both types of Spiritual Enlightenment, not just the golden oldie.
FINALLY, WHAT COUNTS (TO ME) AS A RED FLAG IN AN ENLIGHTENMENT TEACHER?
Lauren, you and other Goodreaders have been patient. But you know me, Lauren, as a teacher I’m very thorough.
Obviously, it’s ideal if the Enlightenment Teacher or Enlightenment Coach is available to personally help students.
But they can’t if:
- They’re dead.
- They are really, really popular and can’t make the time to help individual students any longer.
- In either case, no blame, right?
Would I call this lack of personal attention a red flag? More like a problem. And... you’re right, Lauren, I'd say this amounts to a pretty serious problem.
IN CONCLUSION
There’s more to receiving help from an Enlightenment Teacher than most people know. By reading my response here, you may have more sophistication as a consumer. Hope so!
Thanks again, Lauren, for your contribution to Ask the Author here on Goodreads.
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Jasmine Ariti
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Rose Rosetree:
Hi, Rose! On page 40 of Bigger Than All The Night Sky, you say: "Questing Reader, I'll do my best to have fun *without* waiting for some bad part to happen any minute..." How has this commitment to joy - made when you were so young, 4 or 5 years old - shaped your life, personally and as a teacher? Has it ever been hard for you to come back to joy? (Sometimes I find it hard.) Thank you.
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