Spiritual Awakenings

The 3 Stages of the Spiritual Journey No One Talks About

Stage 2 — Thinking you know everything

We begin our search for answers but we don’t know exactly what we are searching for. (Photo: Gerd Altmann)

Stage 1 — Learning Everything There Is to Learn

We experience this stage out of nowhere or due to a life crisis like a breakup, death, trauma, and other major life changes. This initial stage of the spiritual awakening leaves us feeling confused, unhappy, and lost. We experience a disconnection from the world and those around us. We look at the people around us and it feels like we no longer resonate with them. We may feel depressed as a result of this disconnect.

We don’t know what’s happening with us and the people around us can’t comprehend the transformation taking place within us and they assume we’ve finally lost our minds.

So we begin our search for answers but we don’t know exactly what we are searching for. We begin looking for our life purpose and the meaning of life itself. We start to question everything and this questioning stage pulls us out of the life we’ve known, forcing us to figure out a deeper meaning of life. We ask deep questions like “Why am I here?”, “What am I doing here?” and “There must be more to life than this.”