Beneath the Surface: The Untold Story of Human Suffering as a Catalyst for Self-Realisation

In the movement of human experience, an existential crisis is silently playing out. It’s a pervasive crisis that’s deeply rooted in the disconnection from our essential nature, stemming fro, the stunting of our consciousness, occurring in early childhood. This Blog attempts to uncover the mechanism of this existential crisis, offering a comprehensive exploration of its profound impact on our lives and the potential for awakening that it portends.

Existential Crisis: An intimate Look a Human Suffering

The existential crisis is not a mere abstract concept but a disturbing, tangible reality that permeates every facet of our lives. Stemming from the stunting of consciousness due to trauma in early childhood, it manifests as a silent undercurrent of angst that drives many of us to seek solace in external validations, relentless personal development quests, and the oscillation between the will to prove the negative wrong, or to validate it.

Examples of this crisis are not just statistical data but lived experience, expressing in the various facets of human discontent, such as depression, anxiety, overwhelm, fear, paranoia, and addiction. The positive to this silent force beneath the surface, is that it often instigates a journey towards healing, personal development, and, ultimately, self-realisation. Awareness, and understanding the significance of this crisis, is the key to undoing the knots of hiuman suffering, and the first step.

Stunting of Human Consciousness: The Root Cause

At the heart of human suffering lies the stunting of human consciousness, a term I coined to encapsulate our human condition. This phenomenon - the predisposition for which is set during the birth trauma, cemented in the various phases of childhood conditioning - fractures our essence, outcasting it, leading to an existential crisis of meaning and significance. Disassociation from our core essence perpetuates a cycle of suffering that plunges us into a relentless struggle to recover ourselves, usually outwardly, and eventually inwardly.

Journey of Awakening: From Ignorance to Self-Realisation

This following breakdown offers an insightful breakdown of the journey of awakening, emphasising its undeniable relevance in the human experience:

1. Ignorance: This is the starting point, encompassing a phase of lack awareness of our spiritual essence, characterised by total identification of the body-mind ego identity.

2. Desire for More: A drive for change is experienced, beginning the arising of awareness, marked by a yearning for deeper understanding and experience, prompting the quest for meaning and purpose.

3. Quest for Self-Improvement & Personal Development: Commencing a phase of active engagement in our process and effort to transmute our suffering into higher potential, involving various transformative practices and therapies.

4. Healing and Empowerment: During this phase, we recognise and confront to resolve past traumas, reclaiming our fractured self and gaining relief from unconscious drives we had not been aware of.

5. Spiritual Realisation & pathway to wholeness: Inevitably, a profound recognition of our spiritual essence unfolds, involving experiences of transcendence and connection to a higher power, guiding us back to wholeness.

6. Self-Realisation: Our journey culminates with the dissolution of the identification with the body-mind ego self, remerging us with the spiritual essence, enabling the authentic expression of our essential purpose in service of the all.

Spirituality as a Practical Solution:

Spirituality is often misrepresented as a mere concept. However, as we can already see, it is a practical and transformative solution with real-world applications. Spirituality could be defined as a means of advocating for and creating the right conditions for human awakening. By acknowledging its significance beyond religious dogmas, we can set about healing our life, embarking on pathways that leads to the emergence of our divine essence.

Conclusion: Unveiling the Richness Within

In conclusion, this presentation makes clear that our existential crisis is not trivial, and is a fundamental aspect of the human condition. By understanding its roots in the stunting of consciousness, and embracing the journey of awakening, we can heal our lives and reclaim our spiritual essence.

This article offers a beacon of clarity, offering an in-depth yet uncomplicated understanding of human suffering associated with the existential crisis. Through spirituality and the transformative journey it unfolds, we can leverage the power of suffering to heal our lives, and bring about much needed love in our world.