The Inner Quest

The inner process of awakening your consciousness is a gradual thing that unravels the qualities of the soul while purifying your subtle bodies

What is the quest? Who guides it? Is there an inner presence that truly guides you from within the inner planes? These are important questions that you do not need to answer, because you already know and have experienced that such a presence really exists within you. This presence leads and unfolds the spiritual dimension of your process from within the inner planes of your being. Indeed, for you, there is no doubt, since the presence is linked to you by an ethereal "umbilical" thread. Thus, you gradually realize that this presence is a projection sent by the essence of your soul.

The thread joining you with your soul is an invisible one that directs you towards the beauty and mystery of the inner spiritual planes. In fact, the inner planes are levels of consciousness through which you travel and navigate as you discover new horizons and constant realities. In your long inner peregrinations and while in search of your soul, you let yourself be bathed in a variety of rich, indescribable energies that purify your consciousness to such an extent that you are no longer the same person, and you discover to your amazement that you are linked to this presence by a spiritual thread.

When you become aware of this process in your personal life, then the invisible presence comes even closer to you, infusing you with teachings of a different kind, spiritual processes that awaken higher levels of consciousness within you. This enables you to experience for yourself that everything you see, feel, touch, hear, and think penetrates and resonates in your own center of consciousness like a harmonious symphony. This center is the one within you that reflects the rhythmic and melodious waves of energies inhaled and exhaled by everything that exists in creation.

When you realise this, you grasp the enormity of what has happened to you. You understand that your consciousness has merged and integrated into your sacred Centre of Pure Being. Having reached this enlightened center, you are granted a precious gift, a grace that permeates your being and bonds you forever with your soul. Your consciousness, now integrated in the Centre of Pure Being, casts no more shadows because it has entered the axial pole wherein lies the center of pure consciousness. Therefore, the presence that accompanied you in your travels reintegrates into the sacred axial center from whence it emerged. Why, and how? Because the presence is a beam of the purest light radiating out from the same Centre of Pure Being.

Hence, once you have merged with this Centre, you no longer speak about levels of consciousness since you have reached the place of pure Existence and Being. However, this is by no means an unconscious way of existence. On the contrary, it is one that encompasses all levels of consciousness for within that centre is only Being.

The inner process of awakening your consciousness is a gradual thing that unravels the qualities of the soul while purifying your subtle bodies. Experiences are in themselves linked to consciousness, since you cannot experience something of which you are not conscious. Thus, experiences, be they physical or spiritual, have the same value. "Inner" experiences are no different from physical ones since both are realities that you experience and digest through your purified level of consciousness. Hence, vivid dreams, intuition, altered states of consciousness, or acute awareness of the beauty and interdependence of everything in creation are all experiences that converge in your heart centre, where the intelligence of the heart radiates its everlasting presence.

The gradual process of awakening consciousness opens the doors of a new world to you. You are given to experience for yourself the interdependence of everything in creation. This conscious realisation reverberates in your heart, awakening the center from where the resonance between you and the world transmits and receives a new quality of information. When this new way of discovering the world takes place, you are no longer the same, and your way of being in the world is transformed into one in which there is no longer an inner and an outer world. You no longer observe the world but simply exist in it. Or, should we say that the world exists in you? There is no difference; the mirror and its projection have finally merged. And while you continue to live in the world of duality, where continual change and movement are the law of nature, your level of consciousness remains anchored and fixed in the Centre of Pure Being where the essence of everything has its source.

'Ever Onwards'
Original Artwork by Matthew James