Waking up: With what do you identify?

The Holy Spirit, the shared Inspiration of all the Sonship, induces a kind of perception in which many elements are like those in the Kingdom of Heaven itself: First, its universality is perfectly clear, and no one who attains it could believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything but gain. Second, it is incapable of attack and is therefore truly open. This means that although it does not engender knowledge, it does not obstruct it in any way. Finally, it points the way beyond the healing that it brings, and leads the mind beyond its own integration toward the paths of creation. It is at this point that sufficient quantitative change occurs to produce a real qualitative shift. T-5.I.7: 1 - 6

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

What is being described in this paragraph of ACIM is what Ken Wilber calls “waking up.” Waking up is the enhancement of consciousness. There are elements of this waking up which are described. First it is for everybody, and the more the merrier. Second, divisiveness, separation, exclusion are not practiced. Third, it brings the person past the body, past the soul, to the nondual cosmic consciousness of the Life Force. It brings the individual to the point where they are no longer an individual, but one with everything. This is hard for most people to imagine let alone experience.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together as in step one above to affirm and promote as in step two, a love for the interdependent web of all existence which is step three. The drop has rejoined the ocean.

Today, reflect on your experience of waking up. To what extent do you identify with your body, with your soul, with all of the Life Force of the universe?