Imagine for a moment that “Awakening” is a process that begins by thrusting you deeply into illusion – illusion so good you don’t question it.

Imagine you invest yourself emotionally into all the illusions in your life. You call your emotional investment in these illusions “identity” and “being myself” and “my personality.”

Each time you go to a seminar to better your life, you up the ante. Everything you do that adds a layer to your identity or a dream to your list of goals ups the ante.

Each new attachment you acquire forces the Awakening process to require a heftier swing of the sword to chop through your Gordian Knot. You could have simply and gently untied it at the age of eleven, but puberty forced you to tie more knots.

Now imagine that in order to Awaken, you must sacrifice your entire life. Give it all up. It doesn’t matter to what or whom you give it, but you must place it all in the crucible to burn.

Imagine that once your life begins to burn, you’re going to experience the unraveling of illusion. It’s not going to be pretty and it’s going to hurt. And, inside of that experience, you’re going to become everyone and everything you opposed all of your life.

You’re going to see the sense of your worst enemies, the truth of their beliefs and perspectives. And you’re going to embrace it. Because it’s not about adopting new or better beliefs – it’s about letting go of your existing beliefs, and the best way to do that is to be shown the validity of what you’ve opposed your whole life.

Once you have a taste of how easy it is to “switch sides” of a belief, you have the opportunity to awaken right then and there, but few recognize what’s really going on.

Once you see that every belief has merit, you also must acknowledge that all beliefs are false. Nothing that can change is true. Truth is unchanging. All beliefs are false.

Once you acknowledge that all beliefs are false, then all sides of every argument drop away. All questions disappear. All problems disappear. You’re finally left with TRUTH. Undeniable, indisputable truth.

When the pendulum swings you to the other side of an issue, it isn’t about you finally “finding truth,” although that’s what most people believe has happened. No, if you’ve swung to the other side, you haven’t gone far enough yet. Truth isn’t found in any belief or idea. Truth is found just one step further…