What Does It Mean to “Awaken”?

The word has more than one spiritual meaning

Patrick Paul Garlinger
Hageon
Published in
18 min readJan 1, 2019

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You hear this phrase a lot in spiritual circles — “waking up” or having a “spiritual awakening.” But what does it mean to “awaken”? The topic can be a bit confusing because awakening can mean many things to different people, and the word and its many variants are often used to describe different experiences. In short, there is more than…

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Patrick Paul Garlinger
Hageon
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Author of Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment and other books. Former prof & lawyer, now mystic, writer, psychic.