2026-03-01 by Paul Wagner

Spiritual Awakening Stages: How to Become the Void (Kensho) Without Completely Falling Apart

Spirituality & Consciousness|6 min read
Spiritual Awakening Stages: How to Become the Void (Kensho) Without Completely Falling Apart

If you're reading this, you've likely glimpsed something about the nature of reality that's pulled the rug out from under your sense of self. Maybe it freaked you out. Maybe you’re excited or feel i...

You're reading this, so you've likely had a glimpse. A crack in the facade. Something about reality ripped the rug out from under your carefully constructed self. Maybe it scared the shit out of you.

Maybe you felt a jolt of recognition, a flicker of something true. Through meditation , trauma, psychedelics, or just plain exhaustion, you landed on it: the whole identity game is bullshit.

A flimsy story built on memories, preferences, and social conditioning that dissolves the moment you look at it directly. Maybe it happened during a sit when your sense of "me" just... vanished.

Or after months of therapy when you realized the person you thought you were was basically a collection of defense mechanisms wearing a name tag.

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