{"id":1035,"date":"2012-02-23T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfoldingseries.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2013-04-13T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:57:03","slug":"review-the-five-gateways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unfoldingseries.com\/uf9\/review-the-five-gateways\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Five Gateways"},"content":{"rendered":"

What about after Awakening \u2013 What Then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s another great question.<\/p>\n

The subtitle of the documentary video <\/em>5 Gateways<\/em><\/a> states, \u201cAwakening is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

You go on with your life. It\u2019s a changed, of course, but you go on.<\/p>\n

In my experience the initial event felt like an energy surge rushing upwards. It\u2019s difficult to explain and since there was no instrumentation in place to monitor the changes taking place in my body I can only give my best interpretation. Looking back, I think what happened is a flood of chemical and electrical changes ran up my spine and lit up my brain like the proverbial Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

It began while I was standing. I can only describe the initial event as a little blue bomb silently exploding off to my right and a little behind me a few inches off the ground.<\/p>\n

I saw a series of blue lightning bolts running around me, through me and the person I was next to. The main aftereffect was active for several years. As I said before, every<\/span> thing felt alive. There is no other way to say it.<\/p>\n

Want to know the weather? I could have talked to it for you.<\/p>\n

After a couple of weeks, things settled down and it looked to me as if I were looking at the world encased in purple Jell-O. It wasn\u2019t a haze, my vision appeared to have altered, overlapping with what is referred to as “etheric vision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nI encourage anyone who is at all interested in the process to watch\u00a0 <\/em>5 Gateways<\/em> <\/em>by the Openhand Foundation<\/a>. It is without a doubt the clearest, most thought out, and articulated contemporary explanation which I have encountered.
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\nThe video does a particularly good job describing the shadow self, or ego \u2014 doing it in very few words. I\u2019ve had particular difficulty finding my shadow self. I know it exists and can see it better because of the explanation here. You\u2019ll have to pay attention or miss the truth.<\/span>
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\nThe phases of my post-awakening were not as clear cut as the gateways in the documentary, so while the structure offered in 5 Gateways<\/em> is somewhat different than mine, it is certainly the best attempt to define what comes after awakening that I\u2019ve run across.<\/span><\/td>\n		\u00a0\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We remain ourselves and, though changed, still have to find something to do or become in this plane of existence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwakening is just the beginning.\u201d I would have liked to have heard one of my characters utter that line \u2026.<\/p>\n