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Why We Travel
Synchronicity: Allowing Hawai’i to Magically Reveal Itself
We travel to experience the magic of “effortless awareness” in the world around us.
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This story started about a month ago. It is about how a self-realized state of consciousness can create a more meaningful travel experience.
Around June 20, 2021, I was listening to an interview on ConsciousTV (YouTube) with David Bingham about “Self-Realization”. He may be best known as someone who became self-realized after listening to a podcast. He described how he works with people, which is a fairly simple process he calls “effortless awareness” (see also this other interview).
It was not something new to me, but somehow his description struck a chord. The following two weeks after listening to him, I found myself in a clear state of witnessing my physical, emotional, and mental self. I was witnessing my world unfold “effortlessly” before my awareness.
I was in awe and non-judgment of everything as it was “delivered” to my physical self. But I was not that physical self. I was the awareness beyond my physical self.
Many (most?) spiritual teachers talk about this state of consciousness. I have been guided into this state by Lincoln Gergar in his weekly “Inner Circle” channeling meetings since April 2020. It is also a goal of Transcendental Meditation (TM), which I have practiced for over 45 years (on and off). Maharishi Mahesh Yogi called it “cosmic consciousness”.
Both these prepared me for this experience. But neither brought me over the edge, as did that simple interview with David Bingham.
I did not, however, experience witnessing while asleep, which Maharishi said was a key indicator of “cosmic consciousness” (others disagree). So, as awesome as it was, I had some doubts about what was happening.
I also did not tell anyone about this because (1) it was subtle and hard to describe, (2) it was new and I wanted to understand more what was going on, and (3) I was afraid it would go away if I spoke about it — I just wanted to “be” it.
