The Enlightenment Experience

By Martin Ettington

The Enlightenment Process is described in many historical and religious accounts.

But how can one understand what is really happening to the person who experiences different facets of enlightenment if it hasn’t happened to the reader?

This is the challenge in writing about the enlightenment experience-to describe the indescribable.

Types of enlightenment experiences are categorized and written more as a flow of consciousness than from the analytical approach of most of my books.

My goal is that you will get some glimpse of what is possible when you are blessed with having these events in your life; and it will give you more motivation to change your life for the better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Martin Ettington
• Release date: Mar 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463895887

Martin Ettington

The owner Martin K. Ettington is an Engineer by training and has had multiple careers. These include technical sales for GE and HP. Martin also Owns his own software and consulting business.Martin’s interest in the Paranormal and Occult goes back to his childhood. He has had many paranormal experiences and has been a student of Eastern Philosophies and Meditation for 35 years.Seeking Enlightenment; he knows that we are already all Enlightened. We just have to realize this deeply.His books are expressions of his creativity to help others understand what he has internalized through study, experience, and membership in different societies.Not many technical persons or scientists spend a lot of time in parallel studying the Metaphysical and have had many spiritual or psychic experiences too.Therefore, Martin believes that he can provide a unique vantage point to integrate Western Scientific thinking with Eastern exploration of the mind and spirit.

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Introduction

This book is written more as a flow of consciousness about what enlightenment is and experiences of the enlightened than most of my books.

The intent was to give help put the reader into more of a meditative state while reading it than the analytical approaches I usually take to each subject.

The organization of the material is also in no particular order.

If your consciousness starts to expand while reading the book then I have accomplished my mission.

"It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves."

― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

The Stages of Enlightenment

Enlightenment is an elevated state of consciousness experienced by reflection, contemplation and meditation.

This is the state of knowing who we really are, an eternal spirit – a divine being of light bathed in the love of God, Source and/or All That Is. In this state, one no longer operates from the focal point of the Ego and instead now lives and navigates through life through the multidimensional filter of the heart. It is in this state where we, in every instance, move towards love instead of fear.

Every moment is reflected on.

Each experience is contemplated upon.

Reality becomes meditation.

There are many stages of enlightenment. There is no specific order of these stages and there is no set path to enlightenment.

Often, these various stages are experienced in isolated moments. Other times, they are experienced simultaneously. However, when one is truly enlightened, they walk in a state of constant alignment with the Universe and operate within the frequency stream of love.

The experiences of enlightenment include:

Recognizing your true self as a timeless eternal being. Life is treated sacredly as you open your heart to all things.

Engaging Your Imagination, the conduit between your Higher Self and Your Physical self. Living life from a state of knowing and having constant trust in the Universe that you will be supported in your imagined desires.

Having multidimensional awareness by exploring all frequencies of experiential reality.

Navigating life in oneness. Seeing oneself as a part of the whole that is God.

Experiencing true detachment and embracing the power of paradox. True detachment is separating you from the dramas of life – but paradoxically recognizing yourself as a part of the one Universal energy stream.

Seeing physical reality as an illusion but not invalidating its existence. From this state, you are able to live from a state of gratitude – appreciative for the joy of existence.

The synchronization of mind, body and spirit.

"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your