Are you Experienced?

I moved to a new town my senior year of high school.  At some point during that year my friends told me a story (they all told me this story – the ones who did it and the one it was done to) about hijinks involving Jeff and the Acid.

I tell you this story now because it came to mind while thinking of all the bullshit enlightenment one finds on the internet.  There are scores of people out there who claim to be enlightened or advanced and take every chance to jump all over others and tell them how wrong they are.  About anything really.

So, Jeff and the Acid.  Jeff decided that he wanted to try acid.  Four of the other friends decided to tell him that they could get it for him.  Great!  He was excited.  So the four friends go off and tear off a small square of notebook paper and draw a black circle in the middle of it.  They take this fake hit to Jeff and he puts it in his mouth.  Within minutes Jeff is telling them how wild his trip is and all the weird things he is seeing.  Twenty minutes into this nonsense and the friends burst out laughing and tell Jeff what they did.  He was not amused, but obviously got over it since he was in with them telling me this story.

Lately I am just watching Facebook and not participating because of what I see going on that reminds me of the Fake Acid.

I am in no position to say in what form anyone’s spiritual enlightenment comes.  It’s not possible, because it’s individual.  And that’s beautiful.  I would love to read about each person’s experience and whether it matches my spiritual experience or not, and comment how great that is.  Because it is.

But the Facebook gurus tell us otherwise.  They see anyone post about spirituality and they jump all over it like a monkey on a cupcake.  They want to correct that person and tell them how wrong they are.  How they don’t get it.  And one day they might just get it like they do.

Now you might be thinking, “But you are saying that they are wrong.”   Yes, because I’m not negating their spiritual experience, I’m questioning the attacking.  One’s spiritual experience is their own.  And they come in more flavors than anyone can comprehend.  It simply is that way.  Making someone else wrong isn’t spiritual experience and so can be discussed.

“So what the heck does fake acid have to do with people on Facebook?”  When a person has a real spiritual experience it knocks you back into something beyond the experience of this world.  It is indescribable, but it’s definitely not here.  The Oneness and profound love are beyond any previous experiences of that.  Everything is suddenly so right and profoundly ok.

So just as Jeff pretending to others, and to himself, that his Fake Acid experience was real and profound was really nothing and false, telling others that their spiritual experience is wrong is a giveaway that we took the fake acid, aren’t really enlightened, are faking orgasm, and are sadly like the girl at the college party our freshman year who pretended to be way more drunk than she really was.

You might think you’re acting and playing the part quite well if you haven’t really experienced those things.  To someone who has, the person seems like the unfortunate understudy in one of the less well done community theater productions.

But the good news is that just like Jeff in high school went on to procure some real acid, if they really want it the fake Facebook gurus will at some point probably find themselves falling into a real experience of Profound Reality.  So what is there really to complain about?  For them or me?

Enlightenment

What is enlightenment?  Or a better question is:  What do I mean by enlightenment?

And enlightened person knows the Truth of this reality.  And enlightened person is happy, or at least not unhappy, because they know that this reality isn’t as real as we think it is, and so there’s nothing to be upset about.  An enlightened person has a high vibration, and because of that other people feel good in their presence.  An enlightened person by existence alone brings up the vibration of wherever they happen to be.

An enlightened person lets go.  They let the thoughts that run through their mind and the events that happen in their life just flow through.

An enlightened person can choose to do something and then do it, because they don’t have inner resistance.

The truth of the matter is that I don’t think there are any qualities one can say that indicate enlightenment.  I think it’s a vibration.  And I think that there are characteristics that usually go with that, but that are just what we see from our own level.

Enlightenment is a high vibration.  And from there they see the transparency of life.  And so they don’t feel the need to grab on to anything, so life just flows through them.