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    About The Author

    I work as a writer and spiritual teacher and have anextensive background and education in Spirituality andMetaphysics.

    I have Doctorate in Metaphysical Science, am an

    Ordained Metaphysical Minister, a Certified Past LifeRegressionist, and I've also been certified as a ReikiMaster Teacher In the Tibetan Usui Tradition.

    Seventeen years ago I set out on a quest forenlightenment, and spent over five years living as a

    recluse monk in the forests of the Southwest U.S. andexperienced several profound Awakenings.. which youwill read about in this book.

    For more resources and

    information please visit

    John Michael Christianand

    Spontaneous Awakening

    My work now focuses primarily on creating a Sacred Space by utilizing what QuantumPhysics calls the Zero Point Field, where mental patterns and emotional wounds can be

    shifted by Source Energy. I also guide people into the Present moment, and living inwhat I call Present Moment Awareness, and in learning how to live from the heart and

    observe life rather than trying to think your way through it.

    This allows you to quiet the mind and become deeply Present and live in the NowMoment. Present Moment Awareness connects you to your inner Divine Nature, whichalso enhances Intuition and Telepathy and reveals self sabotaging mental and

    emotional constructs. Ultimately it will also open the way for deep Spiritual Realization.

    This is a Spontaneous Awakening.com JohnMichaelChristian.net and John MichaelChristian Companies publication and is copyrighted material and may not be changed oraltered in any way.

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    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1

    Waking Up In The Body Of God ................................................ 3

    Chapter 2

    The Aftermath ......................................................................... 10

    Chapter 3

    The Second Time Around ......................................................... 15

    Chapter 4

    A Third Awakening Happens .................................................... 18

    Chapter 5

    Life Changes ........................................................................... 20

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    Chapter 1

    My first experience..

    To some people the idea that we live our lives in what I call The Body ofGod may seem ridiculous, and maybe even a little crazy. But as crazy as itsounds, it's absolutely true. We are pure energy and we live in theequivalent of an enormous hologram that is made up entirely of energy.

    If you've seen the movie The Matrix, you'll probably remember that theyrepresented the world as energy that was generated by computers and wasmade to look real to the dreamers. In a very real sense, that's exactly theway things are in the world that we live in. The Matrix was a great metaphorfor the underlying reality that we are living.. what I call our True Nature andBeingness.

    The primary difference between the Matrix movie and our reality is that theenergy we exist in, and are, in isn't created by computers, it is what we callGod, Creator, Spirit, etc. When I experienced my first Opening into OnenessI discovered this when I suddenly found myself in the Pure Light ofConsciousness while meditating late one night. One minute I was sitting inthe back of my Jeep out in the forest meditating, and the next I was

    experiencing myself as Light.

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    I had no sense of myself other than that. I often tell people that Johnwasn't home.. and he was not. At that moment I knew that I was Light, andI was Awareness. I was Aware that I was in Light and that I WAS the Light,and also that what I was experiencing was God. I somehow also knew in myawareness that the Light was Conscious, and that it was an incredibly joyful

    experience. At that point my awareness shifted somewhat to my body and Ibecame aware that tears were streaming down the face of the body I wasoccupying as a result of the overwhelming bliss and joy. Then once again myconsciousness was drawn back to the Light and I again had no sense of mybody, or even where I was at. It was all pure light, and I was that light.

    I don't know how long I sat there in that state, but eventually I fell asleep,and when I first woke up the next morning I immediately realized thatsomething was verydifferent. The first thing I experienced when I opened

    my eyes was the realization that everything had a wonderful golden energyto them that seemed to be shimmering. It was in my clothes and even theJeep itself.

    The next thing I noticed was that I felt a deep peace that I'd never feltbefore, and a stillness. I also realized at some point that my mind wascompletely silent, and I also felt a tremendous sense of joy and bliss like Ihad experienced the previous night. I laid there for quite a while savoringthe wonderful peaceful feeling, and just being.

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    Eventually when I got up and out of the Jeep, I saw that everything lookedverydifferent. The world around me was shimmering with golden energy.After a while I realized then that what I was seeing was the energy that wascreating the world. At that point, a single thought arose in my mind, and itsaid God is dreaming the dream alive.

    This golden shimmering energy was actually the energy creating the plantsand the earth itself. It came to me as I was watching this pulsing energy

    that it was coming into form and then moving back out of form, and as Iwatched it, the realization came that I was actually watching creationcoming into and going out of existence at an incredible speed, and later Idiscovered that this phenomenon is now known by quantum physics also.As I stood there taking it all in, the one called John still wasn't there. WhatI mean is that my mind was totally silent and I was experiencing all of this,but not as John. It's difficult to explain because my normal identity simplywasn't online. I was an observer, experiencing and interacting with this

    new state of Being. I was pure Awareness and existed in this vast field ofenergy, and everything was emanating from this same energy. Just like thenight before when I was in the Light, I was again, or perhaps still pureAwareness.. only this time I was experiencing Creation.

    I was also experiencing a profound sense of Oneness with everything. As Istood there I noticed the Juniper tree that I was camped next to, andimmediately realized that IT was conscious! And I was One with it'sConsciousness as well.

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    I could feel it's presence like I was feeling another person, and as I stood

    looking at it, it's entire life from the time it was a tiny seedling flashed pastand through my own consciousness like I was watching a video of time lapsephotography. I saw the passing of the sun and moon and the seasons, andpeople and vehicles that the tree had experienced in it's hundred or moreyears of life. And as strange as it may sound, I somehow KNEW that the treeknew my life in the same way.

    After I took my attention away from the tree and looked out over the redsoil of the desert and across the vast expanse at the red rock cliffs in thedistance, I realized that my senses were very acute. My sense of smell was

    incredible.. I could smell the amazing crisp scents of juniper and pine treesin a way that I'd never experienced them before, my vision was more clearthan I had ever known in my entire life. And the cool breeze moving over myskin felt like a beautiful, gentle caress.

    I don't know how long I stood there but like the night before the bliss was sooverwhelming that I had tears running down my face. I again had no senseof time, but as I stood experiencing this amazing thing that was happeningto me, a voice came to me. It seemed to come from within me and from

    around me at the same time, and it said You Are Living In The Body Of GodIn Creation.

    I knew at that moment in my heart that it was the voice of Being, or Godthat was speaking to me. I also realized that it came from within andaround me simultaneously. Later I realized that happened because it is allOne thing and in Oneness there is no local self. All is One. There is noOther. There is, and was only One, and that One is God, or what the NativeAmericans call Great Spirit.

    As I watched this amazing dance of Life happening all around me, and

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    simultaneously within, the feeling of Oneness that I was experiencing

    became so profound that I noticed that it felt as though I wasn't standing onthe earth, but rather was in it. It literally felt like I was up to my knees inthe soil. (Many years later I was to experience this phenomenon again, butthe second time it came to my heart center and joined with a Light thatcame from overhead through my crown chakra).

    During this experience I could see plainly that I was not in the earth, but itFELT as though I was. At that point a part of my rational mind becameengaged because I stamped my feet on the hard ground at one point to seeif the sensation would change, but it did not. Even though I could see that I

    was indeed standing on the earth it still felt like I was wading through it..except that it wasn't dense like wading through water.

    I stood there for a very long time looking at the beautiful red rockpanorama. I still had tears of joy running down my cheeks and after a whileI noticed that a flock of beautiful Bluebirds were flying from behind me andwere landing in the trees before me and all around me.

    I'd never seen those kinds of birds previously until the day before when the

    Golden Energy had briefly presented itself to me in another part of thedesert, but this time there were hundreds of them. I'd been the forest for acouple of years at that point, but I'd never seen anything like these birdsbefore, and yet here they were in an enormous flock of a hundred or morein the middle of November and they were landing in the trees all aroundme.

    Then am amazing thing happened. After they had all landed, they became

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    silent, such that all I could hear was the rustling of the breeze through the

    trees. Then suddenly at exactly the same time they began to sing. Andwhen they did, The Voice again spoke to me and said The Angels areRejoicing.. another One is Waking Up! Never in my life had I felt such joyas I did at that moment.

    Even though I still had no sense of self, or of who John was, I knew thatwhat was happening to me was not only joyful to me, but that it was thesame for other aspects of consciousness in the Whole. I was consciously apart of God in Creation.. and I also knew that what was happening to mewas being acknowledged. And I knew that God is Love, and that there is joy

    in the heavens when we begin to Awaken.

    It's very difficult to describe these experiences in words because there is nomind engaged at the time with which to categorize or make sense of it all.Nor can one adequately describe that which is indescribable. There issimply no way.

    During the experience there are no thoughts, and there is no thinking. It'sas if the mind doesn't exist, or that God shuts it off. What does exist as I

    said, is a profound sense of Oneness with everything, and the deepAwareness that I AM.

    Stillness is also all pervading, it exists within, and also is everywhere at thesame time. And, there is a deep sense of Peace, and within that peace andstillness there is immense joy and bliss.

    As I mentioned earlier, because the mind isn't operating during an thesetypes of experiences, there is no sense of who you are. You do know, that

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    you are One with all things, and that you are in God and God is in You. You

    also know that you have found the Truth of your Being. You have arrivedHome.

    Beyond that however you have no sense of your self as the person youbelieved yourself to be previously. I knew that I was in a body, and that thebody was for the experience of life, and I did seem to recall in some dimcorner of my mind that I might have been called John, but I wasn't evensure of that. What I did know for sure was that my body was the vehicle forAwareness, and to experience Life on the planet.

    And as I said, I knew for sure was that I was Home. I had found God just as Ihad set out to do, and I never wanted to leave. I knew later after I cameout of the experience that what Jesus was telling us is true, the Kingdom ofHeaven is within and in the midst of us. And in fact it is here all the time..we just aren't aware of it.

    We have forgotten who, and what we are, and these experiences arehappening to people because, as you will read later on, it is the Will of Godthat we remember.

    Chapter 2 The Aftermath

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    The resurgence of the ego

    I had the erroneous belief, like a lot of people I've met, that after anexperience like that, everything would be incredible. Suddenly my lifewould be magically healed.. all of my old dysfunctional patterns would bespontaneously burned up in the process. Essentially, I was fairly certain thatI would become the proverbial enlightened being that I'd read about somany times.

    As it turned out I was in in for a big surprise. I discovered later that it doeshappen like that for a few people, but not for most. I've come to believethat the extent to which we wake up and stay deeply awake is directlyrelated to how clear we are from doing the work in previous lifetimes. Ifwe're clean when we enter this life, usually we wake up into fullenlightenment and stay there like Ramana Maharshi did as a child.

    For me though, that first experience was just the beginning. I had a lot ofsuppressed emotion and patterning that I had to deal with. Unfortunately, Ididn't know a thing about the process and after that first Opening I crashed

    and burned hard. My worst egoic patterns and beliefs came back andasserted themselves and they nearly led to my death nine months later.

    The reason for this as I have come to understand it, is that when we are

    brought into alignment with the frequencies of our true nature of Love,there can be repercussions. What I mean is that if we have dysfunctionalpatterns and beliefs, or suppressed emotions, they all have to be resolved,

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    and they will come up to be healed.

    To say it another way, every bit of energy within our matrix structure needsto be brought into resonance with who and what we are, and it will all comeup and reveal itself because it needs to be healed in order for us to Become.This process happens anyway because of the nature of life, but it isaccelerated after an Opening or Awakening happens.

    Doing the work of Awakening isn't that difficult if you know how the mindworks and how to deal with it, but I didn't at the time, nor did I knowanyone who did. So I became overwhelmed and lost. My ego brought me

    out of that wonderous experience of Awakening with single thought, whichwas; Oh my god.. what if I stay like this and I can't take care of myself likeEckhart? It was referencing Eckhart Tolle's story in the Power of Now abouthaving to sleep on park benches after his awakening.

    His awakening was of such profound magnitude that his mind went offlinefor quite a while as the experience was integrated. And in spite of the factthat I had plenty of money to take care of myself for years to come, my egofreaked out at the thought. Which I discovered really comes as no surprise

    once you understand the ego and how it works.

    The thought of course, was based in fear, and fear is the antithesis of Love.So the very instant that thought occurred, my energy shifted and I began tocome out of Oneness.

    Then immediately after that thought occurred, another one arose, whichwas what I later came to call my Critical parent. The way it ran was tobeat me up whenever there was a perceived failure on my part. And fromit's perspective, what could be a greater failure than to screw up God'samazing gift and bring myself out of Oneness?

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    Absurd isn't it? The mind ran a fear pattern which was out of resonance

    energetically with Love, which resulted in dropping me back into the mindand out of Oneness just a bit, and then it started to get on me for doingwhat IT had actually done!!

    I later learned that this particular pattern had been operating for virtuallymy entire life and would beat me up when I didn't live up to some imaginedlevel of perfection. Only at that time then I didn't recognize it for what itwas.. a dysfunctional pattern emanating from my childhood.

    It's story was basically, Now see what you've done? You were given a

    wonderful gift from God and you blew it you stupid moron.. except it'slanguage was far worse. So the result of those two thoughts was that I wasbrought back to the world of the mind or what we call reality. And thelatter one kept running for months.

    In fact it ran for nine months, until one beautiful fall day in the San Juanmountains 25 miles south of Pagosa Springs CO. I had reached the point ofno return. I was beside myself as my late wife used to say. And in a fit ofI can't take this anymore! I pulled out a semi-automatic and tried to blow

    my head off.

    Yes.. I know. what's a Forest Monk doing with a 9mm? Well, all I can say iswhen I started out my forest monk life less than two years earlier I was veryparanoid.. so I bought a gun, a sword, and a very big knife. None of whichwere ever used by the way. Fortunately.

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    The gun nearly was, but Life wasn't done with me because when I cocked it

    in my frenzied fury I caught my hand in the chamber, and that one thingsaved my life. It caused an adrenalin rush that brought me to fullconsciousness instantly, and I just stood there staring at this cocked andloaded gun just inches from my head wondering what the hell I had done.And I mean that literally. The mind had taken me into hell and had verynearly killed me.. and when I realized what had happened I fired the guninto the air, and then I cried.

    It was a week later that I met my dear friend Dan Wentworth who helpedme get back on the right track. I had spent most of that previous week

    asking for Divine guidance, and to understand what happened to me andwhy, he was the first answer to that prayer.

    One day when I was in Pagosa picking up supplies, I was driving past an autoparts store and noticed a motorcycle sitting there. As a long time bike ridermyself, it caught my attention and I thought perhaps he needed help. Ihappened to have my motorcycle and trailer with me so I stopped andasked.

    As it turned out he was only changing his oil. The real reason for my trip totown was to meet him. He was the first of several answers to my prayers.

    Dan had been educated as a psychologist and he came out and camped outwith me and gave me some much needed and very sage advice. He alsosuggested I read Pema Chodrin's Heart Advice For Difficult Times, so Ibought it and I began doing what she called Tonglin. Tonglin is basicallybreathing in the pain of others, transmuting it into Love in the Divine heart,and then breathing out that Love to those in pain.

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    I discovered during that time that breathing out Love to other people whowere experiencing pain like I was, was tremendously healing. The act ofdoing it also took my mind off of myself, and stopped my ego from beatingme up, and it began to bring me back.

    Two weeks later I returned to Arizona for my winter stay, and a couple ofweeks after I got there, I met another wonderful being named Ed, whowould also become another good friend.

    One night as I was sitting in Ravenheart coffee shop in Sedona, as I often did

    during the cold months to warm up before going out to my camp for thenight, Ed just walked over and invited me to join a group of friends. I haveto admit the first time I didn't go over. I was still wrapped up in thinkingthat I had to be doing it all by myself, and I was sure I could handle itdespite the recent evidence to the contrary.

    In all honesty I also didn't realize at the time that he was the second insuccession in answer to my prayers. As I said, I had been asking theUniverse for help, but when it showed up the second time I didn't recognize

    it for what it was.

    Fortunately Ed was persistent and asked me a second time a few days later.So the second time I went, and over time he became my mentor and one ofmy greatest teachers. He taught me how the mind works, how to establisha witness consciousness and how to separate myself from my thoughts,and also how to stop identifying with my mind and stories. He also gave meseveral books and told me about others that I needed to read, and so I did.

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    I worked hard, and I progressed faster than I would have thought possible.All of the work I did as a result of what he taught me and the books he ledme to not only began to flatten out my dysfunctional patterning, it alsopaved the way for my second Awakening the following spring.

    Chapter 3 The Second Time Around

    Another Spontaneous Opening Happens

    The second experience was similar to the first, except that it happened in

    an Ashram where I'd gone with a friend to a satsang one Sunday morning.This time I sat down and began meditating while we were waiting forGuruji, and a few minutes after I started, my crown chakra opened

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    spontaneously and I again found myself in pure light.

    This time though I had help. When Guruji Grace walked into the room sheimmediately knew what was happening and she helped me to sustain anddeepen into the experience for the next two and a half hours. I was in purelight again as I said, but this time I was less aware of my body, and I waspulled up out of it through my crown chakra, where I stayed for most of theexperience.

    This time I was also aware of who I was, in terms of this incarnation. The

    mind wasn't shut off like it was during the first experience. In the beginningI had my eyes closed, and at one point Grace asked me to open them andlook at her, which I did. When I opened them at first I couldn't see anythingexcept for light, which caused me to laugh because there was nothing butlight.

    After I told her that, she said to focus on her face, and with effort I foundthat I could create a sort of a hole that I could look through and after I did Icould see her face.

    After she came into focus, it was like I was peering through a portal or ahole into another dimension, which I actually was. I was looking from thedimension of God as the Pure Light of Consciousness, into the dimension ofCreation. As I did, I could see her beaming face beaming back at me,surrounded by brilliant Light. And so we sat for a time, staring into eachothers eyes, and beaming love. It was quite incredible.

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    As I said, that experience lasted for most of the afternoon. After it came to

    a close, I had dinner with Guruji and some of her students, and we discussedwhat had happened. She termed that experience a Heart Opening, and itwas definitely that. It was also as indescribable as the first.

    After dinner I went back out to the forest, to some degree against my ownbetter judgment and her suggestion to stay I might add. I came to find itvery ironic that after that experience happened I actually wasn't able totake care of myself for a while. As it turned out, I moved into the ashramfor a few weeks after it became apparent to me that I probably shouldn't beout amongst people too much, and in particular shouldn't be driving for a

    while after I ran into a huge rock and then sideswiped a tree.

    I am of the belief that because of the inner work that I'd done previously,after that opening I was able to sustain it and to even deepen into it. Iwalked around in sheer bliss with a huge grin on my face for weeks.

    The egoic patterning that sabotaged me the first time was no longer there,and truth be told much of the mind wasn't online either. I found that Icouldn't talk to people most of the time because my brain wasn't functioningall that well, but I didn't care. I was too blissed out to care about anything.

    If someone said something to me I'd usually just giggle or grin at them andgo on my way because my mind literally could not process the informationand come up with a response. Anywhere but Sedona they'd think you werenuts, but fortunately people there usually just took in stride and they wouldgrin back at me.

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    Over a several week period after that Awakening I would go into profound

    states of Samadhi, or bliss. Often I would drop into Savikalpa Samadhi, orthe state of no mind again. At times it became so intense that I honestlyfelt like I was going to go off planet into Nirvana. Guruji had warned methat this could happen however, and she made me promise to stay so I keptthat promise. I was overjoyed anyway and didn't really want to leave. Lifewas just starting to really become fun! I was so in love with God and withthe world that didn't want to go anywhere.. I just wanted to Love and be inLove.

    As I said earlier, after that first experience and doing the work I'd done, I

    was prepared when the second one happened. I knew what to expect, andI'd since I'd already done a lot of the inner work it wasn't difficult to sustainand deepen into it. don't get me wrong, there was still work to be done. Alot of my ego was burned up in the second experience, which by the way ispartly why we become relatively unable to function in the world for a time.But there were still old patterns coming up, and I dealt with them whenthey did.

    The result was that over time I've integrated the old patterns and they'vedisappeared in to Consciousness. Contrary to popular belief that we are toget rid of the ego, what happens in actuality is that doing this work leadsto a much more functional ego instead. It's enabled me (as it does witheveryone who does it) to operate in Life from a state of Awareness andConsciousness rather than being a slave to the mind and our emotions.

    Eventually it also led me to a third Awakening a year and a half later, and afourth a couple of years after that.

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    Chapter 4 A Third Awakening Happens

    On a motorcycle?

    In the first draft of this ebook I had only described the first two Awakenings,but on doing an edit I realized that Life wanted a description of the thirdone included as well. Not so much for the fact that it happened, but whatwas said when it happened and perhaps even HOW it happened.

    I was aware that the third one was going to happen that day because I'dbeen told beforehand. This was the first time that had happened to me.When I woke up that morning, my telepathic connection with my guides

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    opened up and I was told that I was going to have another Awakening. I just

    said Cool!.. but I didn't know when or what would happen or even how itwould happen. But I knew that it would.

    Later in the afternoon I had been given from that same guidance to out fora motorcycle ride up into the mountains, so I got on my bike and took off. Ihad no idea exactly what I was going to do up there because it wasn't reallyvery warm at the higher elevations yet, but I knew that I needed to go so Iwent. Nor did I connect the Awakening with the ride. Who would'vethought?

    After I'd ridden for a couple of hours and had gone about as far as I cared tobecause of the cold, I turned around and headed back down. It was then onthe ride back as I was riding through the pines I suddenly and spontaneouslyfound myself in Oneness again.. WHILE I was riding my motorcycle!

    I had no idea that a person could literally be without a mind and in aprofoundly awakened state and ride a motorcycle simultaneously, but Ifound out that we definitely can. And the experience was amazing! Onething that I was acutely aware of, besides the fact that I was in Onenessagain, was that it felt incredible to be on a motorcycle! The machine and Iwere literally One as I rode down the mountain around the curves.. and Iwas in a state of sheer joy. I've been riding motorcycles since I was fourteenyears old, but being on one had neverfelt that good!

    As with the other Awakenings, there is no sense of time, so I don't knowhow long that part of the ride was. All I knew that it was an incrediblefeeling to be one with a bike going around those mountain curves! After awhile I came to a pullout that looked out over the Verde Valley in northern

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    Arizona, and I pulled over and stopped. I was still in Oneness as I turned the

    bike off and sat there just looking at the view. Camp Verde was below me,Cottonwood was somewhere over the ridge, and I could see the Red Rocks ofSedona far off in the distance.

    After a while I got off of the bike, and walked over to the edge of a drop-off, and when I did The Voice spoke to me for the second time. When itdid, I was again aware that it came from both within me and around meonce again simultaneously, and it said to me It was never intended to bethis way. It is My Will that you know Who, and What you are, and that youcreate your Lives in Joy. And almost immediately afterward I began to

    come out of Oneness.

    I took me a long time to fully understand that second message.. especiallythe part about It was never intended to be this way. My intuition told me

    that the book of Genesis was correct in some way, although I had and still dohave the sense that Genesis was never literal. It is something of a metaphorand not an exact interpretation of what happened.. but clearly somethingdid happen that was not planned to go the way that it did.

    What I did and do clearly understand now is that things with humanity hadsomehow changed. We had and have lost our way.. and that what happenedwas most definitely NOT God's Will that it happened. When you consider theimplications of this it is nothing short of mind blowing.

    Eventually I came to understand the second part as well. We are here todiscover experientially that we are part of the Living God, that we areactually Living in the Body of God in Creation, and that we are Beings of

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    Light having a human experience. This I believe is perhaps the most

    important part of the second message.

    God wants us to know that we are unlimited beings, and that our victimhoodand living in and from the mind is an illusion. It is not who or what we are.We have, most definitely, become lost.. and we are lost in the world of themind. And, it is absolutely essential that we find our way home.

    Chapter 5 Life ChangesLife is never the same

    As you might expect, the change that these experiences bring into a person'slife are both immeasurable and profound. As I alluded to earlier, whathappens, as I discovered, is that one does not get rid of the ego. I oncebelieved that was what had to happen as do a lot of people on the spiritual

    path, but that is a misconception. Instead what happens is that the 'egoicdistortions' as I call them, are eventually healed.. and often, if not usually,simply by becoming conscious of the fact that they are there! What this allmeans is that as we resolve dysfunctional pattens and release oursuppressed emotions (if we have them), we are left with a very functionalmind that enables us to live full, and wonderful lives.

    This is partly what I mean when I use the term Living in the Body of God.The reason I wrote this ebook and shared this part of my story with you isbecause I want you to understand that we all are the same. We all come

    from the same Source Energy that we call God, and we all are hereultimately for the same reason; to grow beyond our limited thinking andbeliefs and to embrace, and experience and live Who and What, we ARE.

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    Most of us have to learn how to do that, and it can, for some, be a very longand arduous process. But more and more this is not the case. I considermyself one of the front runners if you will. Some of us were born to wakeup so the energy would be lighter and easier for those who follow.

    With every person who awakens, the energy of the planet is raisedexponentially. And now is becoming such that the energy is so high that notonly are Spontaneous Awakenings happening worldwide, what we would

    once have regarded as miracles are happening as well.

    And lest you think that I am something special, or that this can happen tome and not you or someone else, let me give you a little of my background;

    For much of my life I was pretty much a mess, and that was particularly trueafter my wife died. It was her death that what prompted me to set out onthis journey in the first place. The long and short of my past is that I grewup in a home with an often violent and unhappy father who wouldn't give

    me time of day, an alcoholic mother to whom I learned to become very co-dependent, and I was sexually abused by two different people before theage of nine. Pretty messy huh? But join the club. None of our lives are rosyuntil we transcend the world of the mind and learn to live from consciousAwareness.

    I look at my past now as nothing more than fuel that live provide me so thatI could change, and for the most part it's become more of a dream thananything else. There no longer exists any hooks into the past, and muchof it has actually been rewired and recoded in the matrix so that it doesn'teven show up in the same way energetically as it did. This is powerful.

    I know that I chose my parents, and I also know that I created, and continue

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    to create my experiences so that I could learn. And I have. We all do if

    we're paying attention and living Consciously. For me, all of who and what Iwas is gone. Every single bit. And it can be for you as well.

    Healing egoic distortions and suppressed emotions and coming intoalignment your True nature profoundly changes your life in every wayimaginable. Your intuition increases exponentially, you begin to experiencetelepathy with others and with Spirit, and you know when a thought isincoming. This is in part due to the fact that your mind quiets when you

    learn to come into the Now and live from Present Moment Awareness by theway.

    You also began to understand others, and life itself, much better. Youbecome able to see and experience the Oneness in all things, and you areable to discern that, even with it's seeming dysfunction, all is only themovement of God in the world.

    For example, when you see dysfunctional behavior being acted out by

    someone you instantly recognize it and know why they're behaving as theyare. And that is from a personal level all the way to the collective realitiesof government and business. It is because you know yourself that you alsoknow others. And as I said, life becomes a true Joy to live.

    My intent in writing this book was not to bring attention to myself, but tohelp you to understand that we're all the same, and we are all destined forthe same, or similar experiences. It is a fact that literally millions aroundthe world right now are in some stage of Spiritual Alignment and are wakingup to their true nature.. and that is going to keep increasing.

    My intuition tells me that there has never been a time like this in the historyof humanity, nor has there been a better time to Awaken. It also tells me

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    that more people are waking up right now on this planet than ever before,

    and that the energies are shifting exponentially in favor of higher levels ofConsciousness.

    Everyone is hearing the call who is capable of hearing it.. and I believe thatis a great number of people. Some I feel are too lost in the mind and aren'table to, and in all probability won't be able to shift, at least not at themoment. But many, many more are. In my experience, all it takes is towant it badly enough and to turn ourselves toward the Light and to stayfocused. If you can do that, and are willing to do the work, I believe you

    can Awaken.

    Ultimately, it is our Divine birthright, and Life wants it for us, as I was toldin my third Awakening. So the stage is already set and the table is prepared.And given the current state of the world and humanity, I believe that Lifenot only wants us to Awaken, but needs for us to, and it is our responsibilityto take up the challenge.

    We are truly the Champions of our Soul, and no one can do it for us. We are

    the ones who must take responsibility for ourselves and turn ourselvestoward our Divinity within, toward the God that we ARE. When we do that,God will begin the process of redemption and restoration and will make theway for us to return home.

    And eventually, as more and more of us answer the call, Heaven on Earthwill be restored once again and we will live our lives in Joy, and we will alllive in the knowledge of Who, and What, we are.

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    For more information on Spirituality And Awakening please visit my websitesSpontaneous Awakening.com or John Michael Christian.net. I have severalexcellent resources and dozens of articles available on Spiritual Awakening,

    Also, my new course on Spiritual Awakening, The Awakening Code will be

    available soon, and on addition I will soon be releasing my new ebookGlobal Shift, which will explain the process of ascension that the planet iscurrently going through and how we can come into alignment with it andlearn to live Consciously and avoid the turmoil that many are experiencing.

    I also do one Spiritual Awakening teaching and one on one counseling viaphone. For more information please visit John Michael Christian.net.Namaste' And Many Blessings,

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