The word “awakened” has different meanings in different contexts. It can mean a change of heart, a change in one’s beliefs, or, in the context of spirituality (meaning a significant and profound expansion of consciousness) it means God-realization—the experience of oneness with God.
Awakening to an ideology is not the same as awakening to the indwelling God and your oneness with it. The two aren’t remotely the same.
But here’s the difference. If you say that as a result of your “awakening” you have lost interest in those who sleep, the reason for your disinterest is different depending on which level you have awakened.
If your awakening is ideological, then you are likely to believe that you are so right in your beliefs that anyone who believes otherwise is wrong. So why bother with them? That’s a form of disinterest—you simply write them off.
But, if your awakening is spiritual, then your disinterest is a matter of perspective. You begin to see people existing on a spectrum of beliefs, which, by definition, is being asleep because beliefs and direct experience are antithetical to each other.
Beliefs are necessary in order to orient yourself toward a direct experience of God, but beliefs can only point to the experience—they can never replace it. “The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.”
The worst problems arise when one’s spiritual beliefs become an ideology. This term—spiritual beliefs—is actually an oxymoron because spirituality is based on experience, not beliefs. “Spirituality” based on beliefs is called religion. But when the two get conflated, the enmity between factions becomes irreconcilable.
The only way to awaken spiritually and not merely ideologically is through meditation techniques that are specifically designed to produce actual spiritual experiences or events.
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I believe the most brilliant description of awakening I've heard is "reality gets fluxy"